Josh is Speaking!!!

Josh and I are so excited to share with you that we are going on a speaking gig and if you live in Central Oregon we would love to have you come.

Our first on is Thursday, February 22nd 6:30 to 8:00 in La Pine at the new beautiful Senior Center. There is a cost as dinner is provided - this is a whole family event so come and bring your friends. Reservations need to be in by Monday the 19th though. So email Wanda at bizbywanda@aol.com to make your reservation.

We will be speaking again, plus Sarah is singing with us in March. March 20th in Madras. You are more than welcome to come. Ask me for more details.

If you can't join us, please join us in praying that we are clear and concise, and that Sarah will sing. She is getting shy! Love that girl.

Besides that Josh had a blast spoiling his special friend on Valentine's Day. It was cute watching them.

We are taking off for a mini vacation to the Oregon Coast this weekend. Heading out Friday and coming back on Monday. It will be awesome to be with our loved ones and relaxing.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon!

The Henry's

Bruce, Lori, Josh and Sarah

Back to School

This is Captain pretending to have had brain surgery too - I have one later of him with an eye patch too! What an awesome puppy!

Josh is back at school full days. Today he admitted he was a little tired - but had 4-H after school too. He is doing great. He was getting headaches from concentrating too much, but it does not seem to be effecting him at all now. Which is another praise.

Next Wednesday is the Sparrow Assembly for the High School Josh and my Josh and I will be going. They are then going to plan the assembly for our Josh at the Middle School. Josh is loving going to their meetings on Thursday.

I had to yell at my kids last night to stop being so perfect, as they are being great still. Loving the Brady Bunch and just taking it a day at a time, and thanking the Lord for each new day. What else could we want.

Thank you again for your prayers - God is good all the time!

The Henrys

Bruce, Lori, Josh and Sarah

More Praises!

This is a close up of Josh's scar - see how fast the hair is growing in - you could not even tell where Bill the tube was.

Josh is doing amazing at school. Yesterday he finished a state math test and scored three points higher than he did in the fall. Today he competed in the school spelling bee and made it past the fourth round. Not bad. We are so blessed that he is doing well.

He starts back to school full time on Monday. It will be a modified schedule because he is not able to have PE - but will do the health segments. He is back to playing the drums at church on Sunday and just doing everything but high impact.

We made the decision to not go to Seattle for Spring Break. We were not going to be able to see Dr. Ojemann, and with our camping trip it was not going to work out. We are trying to stay normal here. So we will do the MRI in Bend. But Children's is working on our 6 mos check up and working around Dr. Ojemann's schedule will be easier without school.

Sparrow is gearing up. We are not on the website yet - but when we are I will be sure to post it here. Well I am off. We are thank you for your prayers, as he is being another miracle! God is Awesome!

The Henry's

Bruce, Lori, Josh and Sarah

Having Fun as a Family!

We are enjoying our long weekend and doing nothing! I don't know if the kids are enjoying it as much as this teacher mom. Captain is having a blast.

We are busy working on our school work and trying to catch up from our adventure - but still playing games and watching Mork and Mindy - the new favorite.

How do you like Josh without the eye patch? We are on day 5 with no eye patch and no headaches or double visions - more praising coming from La Pine. It is such a miracle how quickly he is healing. Once again he was playing drums in church yesterday and praising the Lord. Yep, this mom cried.

Talking of church, we have gotten our pastor into blogging and would love share his blogsite with you. It is awesome, plus he is going to post sermon notes - so you can listen at the church website, after printing them off at his blog. This family has been discussing his sermons all week, as they are challenging and insightful. So check out pastor's blogspot at http://pastorsvoice.blogspot.com/.

Well off to watch Mork and Mindy with the kids and have breakfast. We pray you are taking time in 2007 to serve the LORD. Oh great is HIS majesty!

Love You!!!

The Henry's

Bruce, Lori, Josh and Sarah

More Praises Happening in La Pine!

This is our Josh! Woohoo this was taken tonight after celebrating some more.

We went to our eye specialist and we don't have to go back to him again - unless things get really bad. His depth perception is back to 90% from the 50% just two weeks ago.

He is down to the eye patch just half time, unless he develops headaches and double vision again. But actually he thinks we are doing so well it won't happen!

Josh is doing so well. He is going to school half days and thriving. He gets to stay for lunch and hang with his buddies. We are pushing now to stay caught up and get caught up at the same time. But his laughter fills the house.

Bruce is going back to work full time on the 29th so we are going to start Josh back full time on the 23rd and 25th and then full time permanently on the 29th.

Josh is amazing everyone with how well he is doing and healing so quickly. All we can say is that it is the grace of God and Josh is his miracle from conception to his death. Man the stories we could share on Josh.

So join us in praising the Lord - you have blessed us with your prayers now join us in praising. God Bless Each and Everyone of you!

The Henry's

Bruce, Lori , Josh and Sarah

CT Scan Results - Thank You Jesus

This is an older picture of Josh at Seattle Children's getting his CT scan before leaving the hospital.

But about today - we headed to St. Charles and had a CT Scan done there. Josh and I both agree that St. Charles CT Scan needs stickers like the one at Childrens. I was able to watch the scan and have seen enough that I could tell the fluid level was right and the swelling was down. I was just about dancing out of there.

Off to Dr. Yundt's office. Who we all adore and are blessed to have as our neurosurgeon in Bend. One of the finest around. He was very pleased with the CT Scan and the healing going on. Both he and PA Scott looked at the "war wound" and called Josh awesome. Our battle now is keeping Josh down and not bouncing around and running.

What does the future hold? Well no more CT scans! We are to get an MRI in 3 months. We were planning on heading to Seattle at Spring Break for it - but Dr. Yundt shared with Josh that MRI's at St. Charles you get to watch movies - so Josh is opting for home. In addition, we adore Dr. Yundt and he said he would confer with Dr. Ojemann. Then we would head back to Children's for our 6 month big follow up.

So we are doing awesome - and we can thank the Lord and each of you for your prayers. What a blessing they are. Josh is doing great, and trying to get back into the school work mode. Monday he will head back with Mom and Sarah. But lucky him, he is only going to do half days. His energy level is back up, and today he actually practiced his drum. He is excited to be back at church and playing the drums this Sunday.

Monday we see the eye specialist and both Bruce and I think the eye patch will be history! Hard to believe it was barely over a month ago that we were recovering at Seattle Children's Hospital and what a wonderful experience that was.

More on Monday after the eye specialist. Have a blessed weekend.

Love -

The Henry's

Bruce, Lori, Josh and Sarah

Happy New Year

Happy New Year from the Henry's!!!

We are home after a wonderful Christmas with our dear family! What a blessing it is to live close enough to celebrate and have all of us together this year. Rejoicing in our Savior's birth, Aunt Linda's healing, and Josh's healing. What rejoicing happened in the Henry Family!

This is a picture of Josh and Sarah with our favorite Star Wars characters. We were blessed by our dear friends from church, Max and Donna, to be able to go to OMSI and see the exhibit, see Happy Feet on the OMNIMAX screen (mom still has an upset tummy), have lunch and buy some souvenirs. This is one of the things we were wanting to do - but the surgery and money did not allow to do so.

We had a wonderful time and a very full day of it. To top of our awesome week, Josh's double vision is about gone. We are so pumped by that one. We go this Friday the 5th to see Dr. Yundt again for another CT scan to see how the swelling is going. Then on the 8th - late enough for mom to go, we see our Dr. Carmeitke - our eye specialist and I am holding out for the eye patch going away.

His incisions are healing beautifully, and his hair is growing back so fast it is amazing. Now is the hard time - slowing him down. It is hard to keep him from going a hundred miles an hour and wanting to do everything. He is still very concerned about having to get a shunt - but who would not be, so that is keeping him grounded a bit.

Josh is not looking forward to heading back to school - poor guy. We will be doing some homeschooling this week though. It is awful having mom as a teacher.

Another blessing - we won a family dinner to the Outback. Thanks to Bruce's boss, John we get to go again. Josh was so excited. Although we had steak last night at Grandma's (suppose to be for Aunt Kathy's birthday, but we know Josh was craving it again) Josh is ready to head out to the Outback. I am going to have to work more to keep up with his eating habits.

Well as we look forward to celebrating the New Year coming in with our dear friends The Fields - we know this is a year we will not take health for granted. Join us in celebrating the health and time the Lord has given us here on earth. Share his love to everyone.

Happy 2007!
The Henry Family
Bruce, Lori, Josh and Sarah