Guest speaker RaeLyn Davis

November 7th, the day we will never forget. . . The day that everything changed. . . the day that our carefree life would never be the same . . . the day that E was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, days after his third birthday. I remember spending five days in the hospital with him where it took three nurses and ourselves holding him down to do his blood sugar checks and insulin shots. We've come a long way where he is almost completely independent with his diabetic needs and is rocking his diagnosis. I'm proud of him for never letting things get him down! Coincidently, today on his diabetic anniversary he was able to meet country music star RaeLyn Davis (also a Type 1) who came to the school to share her story of rising above anything life throws at you, including diabetes! Pretty cool to meet someone famous that's just like him! 

Pretty Pretty Princess

 

Halloween Middle School Dance

 

Happy Halloween 2019

Pumpkin Carving

 We learned our lesson after 12 years of carving pumpkins and got small pumpkins this year!  They were able to do most of the carving themselves and had a great time doing it!

Fall Band Concert

Miss E had her Fall Band concert the other night.  It's so much fun seeing her musical talents take off!

State XC

The CC girls took 11th out of 46 schools in Class B Cross County and Miss E took 2nd for Central Cass with a time of 22:34. 👏🏻 So proud of all them for finishing strong in very challenging conditions! It was a great season full of learning and growth. We are so thankful for her awesome teammates and coaches, fostering the love of running and encouraging her every step of the way!

https://www.mtecresults.com/race/show/9142/2019_North_Dakota_State_High_School_Cross_Country_Championships-Class_B_Girls_-_Team_Scores_and_Overall_Results?fbclid=IwAR1tnlHADo7hN47L4gvNCvpNQKWVxGNXj0tUQMzqBSzfsB_yhrzCnfk7X-4

Regional XC

Miss E ran at the regional XC meet in Cooperstown and placed third on her team. . . which solidified her spot on the state team. Thanks to all her family and friends who were able to make it to Cooperstown to cheer her on yesterday in her first-ever varsity race! Fun to see her improve throughout the season and getting stronger and stronger! I love this sport and this girl!!!

Movie Night

This little sweetie's favorite thing is MOVIE NIGHT!!!  I captured this picture of her all bundled up ready for the show to start!  Too cute!

XC Night Out

Miss E and her team headed into the Olive Garden before Regional Cross Country.  They were instructed to dress up. I can't believe how fast this girl is grown up!

Castaway Camp

Our 10 youth joined over 400 middle school youth from across the EaND Synod and had a great time enjoying all that Castaway Camp has to offer! Miss E had a great time with her Church Friends and getting a chance to build on her faith! 

NDKA Conference

We had another successful Kindergarten Conference and were able to meet Dan St. Romain.  He put on an amazing presentation!

E's Youth Cross Country

E joined the youth XC team this year and had some great races and had a lot of fun!

Braces and Gallbladder

It was BIG day yesterday for the Hollands starting with E and E both getting braces on the same day! Ufda, that’s going to hurt the checkbook! Then we ended the day with me getting my gallbladder out after nine months of pains, complaints and saying “I think it’s my gallbladder” and 20 ...yes 2-0 different Dr appointments, copays, and hospital bills later in those 9 months we finally found the right dr that said no this isn’t ok that you don’t have answers yet and yes I believe you that I think it’s your gallbladder and I’m admitting you right now and we will do every test we can until we figure this out. Low and behold they did a HIDA scan of my gallbladder (a different scan then the CT and Ultrasounds other Drs prescribed THREE times and showing on those tests a still picture that my gallbladder looked ok.) The HIDA scan (a test that actually watches it work) came back positive my gallbladder wasn’t functioning. Looking back I actually believe that this may have been what caused my appendix to rupture in December. 🤔These last nine months have been trying and my heart goes out to anyone with a chronic illness. You look fine and healthy on the outside but your insides are in constant battle and you aren’t yourself, or the wife, mother, daughter, and friend you should be. The list is long of the things I/we missed out on because of not feeling good these last nine months but I’m not going to look back just forward and thanking God for watching over me and for not letting me give up. He put the right dr in front of me, finally! This dr/surgeon was amazing as he took action, listened, made a plan, and they worked me in with his crazy busy schedule (had surgery all day ...a couple that went longer than expected and finally got me in at 8:30 pm) as he knew we could not wait a moment longer! Now I’m on the road to recovery and will hopefully begin to living life again! Thank you to everyone for your prayers, text messages and calls (Sorry I haven’t been able to reply to them all but I’ve read them and I’m so grateful you took time out of your day to think of me) Also, HUGE thank you to Jason for putting up with me these last nine months as I wasn’t always easy to be around when I never felt good. He’s a keeper!

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