Tyson Hugh Hooper

Tyson Hugh Hooper
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!

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Gender Reveal...

I know I have already revealed the gender of our little girl, but I wanted to share some pictures too!

Megan suggested I do a dramatic reveal party for a few friends, and I thought that sounded rather fun!  Sunday was the day, so the Hutchings, Fletchers, and Sarah Basham came over to find out if we needed to plan for pink or blue!  I wish our house was bigger because I wanted to invite everyone we knew, but we just didn't have the room... we were cramped as it was, lol.

Everyone was instructed to wear whichever color they thought would best match our baby!
Chris and I just wore black and white as to not reveal anything too early.

The blue folks outnumbered the pinks by a few, lol... 

 ...but it was all in good fun!
 The big reveal came in the form of a home made cake...
 ..and when it was cut...
 ...everyone cheered for our baby girl!  :-)
And then we ate cake and enjoyed company of good friends and talks of pregnancy and baby names and nursery decorating and all that fun stuff!

It was a wonderful afternoon and I thank Megan for the wonderful idea!  :-)

Posted by Meagan at 6:47 AM  

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4 comments:

Ashley said...

Yay!! So exciting!! What a cute idea. I'm glad you had fun!

August 24, 2011 at 5:29 PM  
Sarah said...

that is a cute idea! And I liked the cake color idea too! And I really liked finally seeing some prego pictures! I had yet to see you looking pregnant!

August 25, 2011 at 11:00 AM  
Allyson said...

What a great idea!! LOVE the cake being the way to tell everyone. I agree with Sarah--we need to see some belly pictures soon! :)

August 25, 2011 at 12:26 PM  
Betsy said...

I am so excited for you!! A baby girl is going to be so much fun. I love your gender reveal party!! That was a great idea! :)

August 25, 2011 at 5:07 PM  

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