Praise God our little girl Chloe is now HOME :)

Yes praise God. and keep praying. We just go home and Jami has some pics already posted. We have a lot of appointments coming up with the pediatrician, cardiologist, and cardiac surgeon. will most likely have another surgery before the age of 1. So just pray that God will miraculously heal the hole in her heart. Also pray for her and us during these first few nights as new parents. AHHHHHHHH!!!!! and as nurses lol cause we know to dag gum much lol. but pray that she will continue to do well, to eat, and grow as needed. We are on 4 meds. Lasix (fluid meds), Digoxin (prevents heart failure), Enalapril (prevents heart failure), and Sodium(aka salt lol, this helps pull fluid into the blood vessels...helps the lasix) all of them twice a day.

I would like to thank everyone who has been praying for us. It has been so awesome to see how fast God can move. I have cried 2 good times the past 15 days. once the night before her surgery, the second was the night they reintubated her. Every other time i started crying wasn't from being sad about Chloe, It was always when I heard, saw, or felt the prayers people were praying. How awesome is God that people in 15 states and 6 different countries could all be praying at the same time and probably in different languages as well. It is just so cool knowing that God hears all of our prayers whether we are saying/singing them out loud, in our hearts, or through tears(sad and happy).

"How Great Is Our God?"
Jami and I sang this song throughout our ordeal. God is great in our good times, our bad times, and even during times when we reject Him and turn away. He still loves us and is ALWAYS in control. no matter what.

The worst night we had while we at the hospital was probably the night Chloe had to be reintubated. That pretty much ripped the hearts out of every single one of our chests. It was so hard and so awful. We(Jami and I, JAmi's mom, and my parents) started praying just holding eac other pretty much in a ball on the couch. after praying my mom started talking about Ray Boltz's song "The Anchor Holds." It has been my favorite song since after I hurt my ribs 7 years ago. It has been one of the things that I have held onto in every bad time I have had since then and Jami as well. So I found it on the internet and played it and we sang it. and the words are so so true. in every situation especially the bad ones...The Anchor Holds.

"The Anchor Holds"
i have journeyed
through the long dark night
out on the open sea
by faith alone
sight unknown
and yet his eyes were watching me

CHORUS
the anchor holds
though the ship is battered
the anchor holds
though the sails are torn
i have fallen on my knees
as i faced the raging seas
the anchor holds
in spite of the storm

i've had visions
i've had dreams
i've even held them in my hand
but i never knew
they would slip right through
like they were only grains of sand

CHORUS

i have been young
but i am older now
and there has been beauty these eyes have seen
but it was in the night
through the storms of my life
ohh thats where God proved his love to me

CHORUS x2
---------By Ray Boltz