Baby Ethan Powell

I am writing this entry with tears in my eyes for a baby that I don't even know. My mom has been keeping up with a family for the past several months now through a blog for their son Ethan who was diagnosed with Leukemia at his 2 month check up. I was unaware of this blog and only started reading it 3 days ago. But I have been so touched by this family I had to share it with those of you who read my blog.

These people were given a 15% chance of survival and truly believed with all their hearts that God would bring healing to their son. Thousands and thousands of people have been praying for this baby throughout the course of his illness and his parents had a supernatural ability to have 100% faith in Jesus that he would heal their baby.

I have spent the last hour reading their posts and watching videos and have been overwhelmed and amazed at these people's faith. They didn't doubt God for a single second and never stopped praying for their baby boy to be healed of his sickness. I may not be very accurate with this information because I was not keeping up with this family until this week. However, I am pretty sure that Ethan was in remission from his cancer but was left with no immune system.

A couple of days ago his Dad posted that Ethan was going downhill fast but not to stop praying for Ethan to be healed. Again, without ever meeting this family I am amazed at their faith in Gods ability to heal. However, yesterday their precious baby died peacefully in their arms.

I cannot imagine how anyone could deal with something like this. I cannot imagine anything rocking a strong faith more than this probably has. These people believed that God would and could heal their baby and he did not. However, they posted the DAY that their baby died that they still believe and will still continue to pray for healing of themselves and will now devote their lives to finding a cure for cancer. His Dad posted the day Ethan died that he was mad at "cancer". He never once said that he was mad at God. What AMAZING faith!!

I say all this to say please stop what you are doing for a few moments and please pray for the healing of this family. I can only imagine the lies Satan is trying to feed them in this time of weakness! I have no doubt that this amazing, faithful family will overcome by the power of God. But they still need our prayers. They already have thousands of people praying for them but you can never have enough people fighting for you through prayer.

Here is a quote from Ethan's Dad yesterday: "Although the devils wants to convince me and you otherwise, I still BeLIeVe... PRAYER WORKS!!! And I hope that you do to."

I thought that was amazing and am so encouraged by this family. What a loving heart they have. They have just lost their precious baby boy that they have been fighting for for months. Yet, they still encourage others to believe in God and in prayer! They have definitely encouraged me. People like them help me realize that as Christians we are part of a community and family stronger than any blood family could ever be. God has the power to bring together people in so many mysterious ways and the tragic death of this sweet little baby is in some way part of his perfect plan.

As hard as it is for us to accept sometimes we have to trust that God is in control and God is perfect. This is something that I struggle with daily but find such great comfort in. I will be praying for this family and thanking God daily for his wonderful, perfect plan for our lives.

Here is their website if you would like to see it:
http://www.ethanpowell.com/

No words.....

Well I guess I have some words but I will try not to vent too much! Just in case you don't have cable and were thinking of getting Comcast PLEASE save yourself now. I hate to be negative on my blog but I am just trying to be a good friend to the innocent people of the world that haven't been subjected to the Devil that is Comcast. They are evil. They pretend they are going to come to your house and they never come. They give you fake names and numbers to get you off the phone. Their technicians pretend they came by your house but left b/c you weren't home. Their supervisors tell you that you are going to get a free month of cable for all the "issues you have had" and then you call the next day and they pretend they don't know you. They will put you on hold for 1 hours just to transfer you to a voicemail. They put you on hold and then hang up on you! So all that to say comcast is evil, I really think the Devil may be working for them. Save yourself and your nice, sweet personality and never get anything associated with that devil company. Say a little prayer that they actually come to my house tomorrow b/c if they don't show up it will the the 5th time in 6 days that I have rushed home to find out they are not coming! They actually made Lance mad. And if you know our family at all you know that if it made Lance mad it must be a 100% terrible, horrible, suuuuper annoying situation!

Ok it is out of my system. I hope everyone is having a wonderful week! I get to hang out with my college roomie and amazing friend Kara tomorrow who I haven't seen in a while. I am VERY excited! Friends are one of the best things on earth! :) I can't wait to catch up and have her come see my apartment. Lance is going out of town tomorrow until Sunday so I am all alone for 4 days! Which mean I will eaither have to sleep at a friends house or grow up in sleep alone in my apartment. Hopefully I can muster up courage! I feel now that I am 23 I am a real adul. 21 was definitey a very college, kid age and 22 was just the year after 21. But now that I am 23 I guess I have no excuse to aviod the "adult" world and sleep alone like a mature adult in my apartment.

Can't believe little Rox is Preg!!

As many of you already know Roxanne is Pregnant. Rox is one of my very very best lifelong friends and she is having a little baby!!! When she told me I literally stopped dead in my steps in the target parking lot and almost dropped all my bags! Having someone so close, who got married 7 days before me, about to be a Mommy is so crazy but SOOOOO exciting! Rox and I have gone through so many things and have really done most things in life at the same time (like getting married a week apart). We were supposed to be neighbors and have our children a week apart but I have come to terms with this. We will just make sure that her next baby is born a week after mine! :)

But I am so happy and can't wait to see this wonderful, extremely athletic little thing! I feel like it's a girl, I have no idea why but we will just see. Rox and I also have the same baby girl name. We both want the name Avery for our little girl and said that whoever had a girl first got the name Avery. But I must say if someone is going to get my name I'm glad it's Rox! Name number 2 is Molly so if you are reading this Rox I call Molly next!

Please pray for the Bradford family and their little baby to be! Rox & Brian are going to be amazing parents. They are so much fun and filled with so much energy. It is great to know that people like them have been given the gift to raise a child. Rox is the ultimate advice giver and encourager! This little one is going to have such a wonderful Mommy. They will do a great job and I know this baby will be such a wonderful, kind Christian person someday!

Easter Camping Trip!

This is going to be a very short entry but I wanted to write for just a few minutes about our

Easter camping trip. Our family has been going camping on Easter for as long as I can remember and for the past several years the Curry/Bradford, Martin/Blackburn/Campbell and Goforth families have been going with us.

This trip is really so much fun! It is so much fun just cooking food around the camp fire and sleeping in our cozy tents. I really LOVE getting all bundled up in the tent and then getting up in the morning and drinking hot chocolate! I also love the scenery of this place. We have been going on the same waterfall hike for years and years and it never gets old. All of the guys jump in the water where it says not to and usually almost get sucked down by the current. My husband especially. This year Betho came running over to be and said "Kayla you should actually be worried, Lance is going to kill himself" Ha, luckily he survived! I even made the scary treck down to the bottom of the waterfall this year. I must add that I am always last and for some reason am the SLOWEST rock climber/walker in the world, I'm not scared so it is still a mystery to me why I am always last! It is usually all of our first time to be in the sun for the year too so I am always burned! I actually did good this year by not getting burned but instead stayed really pale! :( On Sunday (Easter) we always go to this scenic overlook at the top of the hill and have church. It is the best way I can imagine having Easter Sunday. We all sing songs, sometimes awkwardly forgetting the words, and it sounds so pretty up on the top of the hill. One of our parents always leads church and of course Mr. Curry leads singing! I really do look forward to this trip every year! I can't wait until next year!!

I think I can easily say that camping is my favorite thing to do for fun. I hope Lance and I go on hundreds of camping trips over the years! I am counting down the days to the Agan/Bradford Colorado camping trip this summer! :)

Precious little minds!

This may not be so cute to everyone else because you don't know these kiddos. But I must share with y'all what the kids in my class said when I asked them why they loved God. Some are really sweet. Keep in mind they are 4 & 5 yrs old!



I Love God Because...



1. He went to cross for our sins, but he is still alive in our hearts and is with us everyday.

2. He made me and he is the best God ever.

3. Because God is taking care of my Daddy ( this little girl's Dad died this summer)

4. Because my grandma is having fun with him in Heaven.

5. Because he protects me and sprays his magical powers on the Devil.

6. Because he died on the cross for us.

Kids have no idea how much they already know about God. So sweet!!

On a different note, DO NOT WATCH I AM LEGEND! We rented it and are watching it right now and it is soooo scary and depressing!

Happy soon to be Friday! I am so ready for the weekend! :)

Birthday Fun

Here are a few pics of my super fun 23rd birthday! The night before these pictures my amazing parents took us to a really nice restaurant and we got to eat some wonderful food. The next night we went to Pappasitos (of course) and then went bowling! I never thought that would be what I would want to do on my birthday but it was the best choice ever! They even gave us t-shirts that said "I had my birthday at Palace Lanes!" Oh to be a kid again!

Heather also came into town for the weekend and it was so much fun hanging out with her. It is so sad when you graduate from college and all of your friends get scattered all over the country (or world BRITTNEY) and you only see them on ever now and then. :( Sometimes I still can't believe that we all have real job and some of us are married! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!? I mean I love my life and LOOOOVE being married. It is just hard to believe that we are actually adults now with real adult lives!

Ok enjoy the pics!

Houston Rodeo!

Lance and I went to the rodeo and it was so much fun. I don't like country music at all, however everything was great. The highlight of the day was the livestock show. There were little piglets that were less than a day old and a calf that was 3 hours old. We also saw a baby chick hatch out of its shell. It was the sweetest/saddest little thing. The poor little chick looked absolutely defeated. Here are a few pics.




The less than a day old piglets eating!



Some older little piggies!



The 3 hours old calf. It was soooo cute!