My Lens On Life: Let the planning begin!

Our son, Tyson Hugh Hooper, was born with coarctation of the aorta, hypoplastic arch, and a transitional avsd. His first open heart surgery reconstructed his aorta and was on day 9 of life. His second open heart repair was not anticipated to be needed until two or three years of age. Ty had other plans. We spent the vast majority of his first 3 months of life at Vanderbilt as he went into heart failure and was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension. As a result, the medical team concluded that he needed the repair much sooner than usually recommended, and at just shy of 3 months old Ty underwent his second life saving open heart surgery. God has already worked so many miracles in Ty's life and the life of our family and we know he is using our story. Because of this, we are grateful for Ty's special heart and feel beyond blessed that God chose us to travel this road. We ask for prayers as Ty continues to heal. We are praying for a full recovery and life without restrictions for Ty. We are praying for God to use our family and Ty for His glory.

Thank you to each and every person who supports us through prayer, giving, or just by loving on our family! We are humbled and blessed by all of the ways the Lord is providing for us and know that he is using Ty and his story to do great things!

Friday, December 10, 2010

Let the planning begin!

We picked April!

THIS April for our WEDDING!

Time crunch?

Um, yes!

No worries... we have a dress, a band, and a location! :-)

My dress is a DREAM and SO ME and the best part??? They make the EXACT same dress LILY-SIZED! YAY! We'll match exactly! I can't wait for her Daddy to see us!

3 comments:

Sarah said...: I know you and Mom are having tons of fun planning and getting things lined up. Sorry I'm not closer to be there and help out. But I'm enjoying the updates!
Love you!; December 12, 2010 at 3:56 PM
MELDUST said...: that's so exciting!!! it will be perfect in every way!; December 12, 2010 at 5:26 PM
Allyson said...: You can totally do it! Ryan and I were engaged in January and married in June and it was a perfect amount of time b/c you got all the planning done and got to get married instead of waiting and waiting and waiting! How exciting!!!!; December 12, 2010 at 6:53 PM