Birthday greetings to Austin - Jan 14th

Hope your birthday is bright with love and laughter

ANNOUNCING........

On December 27 Carter Evan was welcomed into the family with a great deal of excitement and open arms. Carter weighed a whooping 7 pounds and 6 ounces, measuring 20 1/2 inches. He is a cutie......as are all my grandchildren.:) As the picture shows, Dylan and Savannah are quite pleased with their little brother.

Angie is finally feeling better after having a harder surgery than expected, losing more blood than expected, and being anemic and quite fatigued.....so we know that everyone will understand why this was not posted sooner.

Congratulations Emersons!

Emerson's New News

The Emerson's are expecting their third child at the end of this year. It is an exciting time for Deron and Angela. Dylan and Savannah are excited about a baby sister or brother joining them.

Family gathering

I did check with the Pizza Ranch and we can, and I did, reserve the big room - they would like a count before we come. We don't need to have the count right now but probably about a week before. The room holds 50 people and if we do not have that many, it's fine but others will be able to sit in the room and I said that was okay but we'd all kind of like to be together. The cost is just under $8.00 for seniors, a dollar more for other adults, and 60 cents a year for children under the age of 10.
Linda

Bolin Family News

Bolin Family News:
It has been awhile since we have updated our blog, so I willpost something on the family website. Austin and Logan areboth having a great time in school and in hockey. Gavin ishaving fun going to his Little Learners class and Ian isjust brought all over the place. Ian is 9 months old now,and he has been standing on his own for a month now. Hewants to eat everything in sight, but he has no teeth.
We have been real busy with school, hockey, and work. Weare looking foward to the Christmas season. It will begetting real hectic soon, as all of my boys (including Dean)will have their birthdays in the next couple months. We arealso in the process of finishing our basement, so it will betwice the room!
The pictures are of Gavin in our boat that Dean bought thissummer, he was all tuckered out after a day of fishing.
The second picture is of Logan at the ER, after gettingstitches. He fell on a bike at the pumpkin patch and splithis chin open. Believe it or not, this was our first set ofstitches for any of our kids.
This is a picture of Dean's new boat. He worked real hardto get it and he loves taking the boys out in it.
This is a picture of Austin and Gavin playing in the kitchenon a bike. Sounds like a bad combination to me!

Angela's news

Hello Aunties,
Someone asked for some news other than Teresa's, so could you please post the below and the two attached pictures for us? Thanks!

Many of you are frequent visitors to Savannah's carepages, so some of you may already be aware of our good news. This past Wednesday, Savannah had an echocardiogram done which proved that her heart is quite the strong little ticker with no problems, and her pulmonologist, who has been following her progress since before her surgery in August, has dismissed her from his care, stating that she looks great and is now "normal." Savannah showed us weeks ago that she didn't need the oxygen by keeping her saturations up, so we haven't had the need to use it. We also took her off the monitor that measured her saturations, which proved to be harder on us than on her. It's been very good news for us to be given medical clearance from her most skeptical and cautious doctor. American Home Patient will be picking up all their equipment next Tuesday. We're at the end of my parental leave. I'll be going back to work on the 5th and looking forward to Christmas. Hope everyone survives the weekend winter storms!
Love to all, Angie

Savannah

Little Savannah had her surgery yesterday and everything went very well! It turned out to be a diaphragmatic hernia, so surgeons went through her belly, had to bring down the loop of small intestine and part of her liver that had crept through the hole in her diaphragm and squished her right lung. The hole was repaired, and Savannah's belly looks a bit distended due to swelling and the rearranging of her intestines to prevent further growth problems with them.
Both the doctor and the surgeons were confident that Savannah would be moving forward in no time at all, and the NICU doctor has been extremely impressed with Savannah for treading water so successfully all this time as she grew for surgery, and feels that she'll be very healthy when she comes home with us.
We're hopeful this will only be about another six weeks - but we'll have to wait and see, pray for no further problems, and keep our faith.

Savannah's web site & Angela's news

Thanks for posting our picture, Aunt Mary! For anyone not looking, yep, there's FOUR of us there. Down in the lower right, that little tiny peanut with the tubes, is Savannah :) This is the first time I was able to hold her outside her incubator.

She's doing extremely well, and if you'd like more progress and/or view more pictures, you're welcome to visit her Care Page (provided by the hospital, kept up by Deron and I) - http://www.carepages.com You'll have to register (it's free), and then the page you want is called Savannah521.

~ Bob, Julie, Jimmy - It's a shame you can't make it to the reunion, but I hope you'll have a great time in Alaska! The salmon and halibut won't know what hit them!

~ Shawn, you've been in my prayers and will continue to be there, as is the rest of your family. I hope you're recovering nicely.

~ Matt & Liz - Sorry we couldn't make it to your reception (work issues). I hope it went well! Mom said she had fun :o) You're two very special people with a lot of love for one another. May it grow and blossom through the years and provide you with many happy moments to cherish and remember on your front porch when you're ancient *wink*

Ernie ~ Dang, nice turkey!! We've got pheasant that run through our backyard occasionally :o)

I hope everyone in the family is doing well. We'll be at the reunion, although I'm not sure if we'll be late or leave early, due to seeing Savannah at the hospital. See you there!!

the Emerson Family photo

the first (of many) family photo of the Emerson Family

A new blog to check out!

Hello family,
Since it takes longer to email the pictures than to post them I started aBlog, (t's trendy) hope you will all stop by and check it out, if you have other family member emails could you forward this on? I understand that some of you will never be able to visit because of work and other reasons but don't worry I never hold a grudge longer than a year. Mostly we just plan to post pictures as often as we can in random order as they get edited. Complete with colorful narrations by yours truly. oh and if you do not want your smiling face on the web please let me know as you maybe in some pictures that I have.
The email associated with the blog is bolintribe@gmail.com
the website is:: http://bolintribe.blogspot.com/
visit soon and visit often,I am starting with older pictures mostly around2003, and sooner but there are recent pics shuffled in too!anyway it's 2:15 AM andI need my 5 hours of sleep,
Dean Bolin