Let's get this party started!

Ready or not, here we go. After some yummy Korean food for lunch, we'll be heading up to NIH to get Ryan checked in. George and Tori will stay up there with us tonight and surgery will be first thing tomorrow morning. Not sure how long it is supposed to last, but I guess we'll update when we get that info. My mom is flying in tomorrow afternoon-she is always a great help and support. We are ready to get this one over with and still appreciate all the prayers we can get for a successful surgery and fast recovery.
I'll try to post some of Noah and Rachel's wedding pictures this week-it was beautiful!
Until later!

Love ya, mean it:)

Hello all! I don't have much time to write, I just wanted to let you know that we have a firm date for surgery. It will be Wednesday 6/31. Thank your for all the support and prayer.
Ryan & Leigh

Ok, Now we Know!

I'm going to Noah's wedding. I'm still the best man after all. However, I'll still have to have surgery sometime in the next two weeks. Thanks, for all the thoughts and prayers.
Love ya, mean it!
Ryan

AAHHHHHH, hospital food:)

Well, here we sit. Definitely been here before. Hurry up and wait, that is the motto at NIH. We got into our hotel at 2:30a last night (or morning) and arrived at NIH at about 7:00a today. My surgeon wanted me here ASAP but upon arrival the MRI machines had a back log of people. Fourteen hours of waiting (and a very long night of driving) and the MRI is now done. Now, we are just awaiting the verdict. Is surgery going to be tomorrow or next week after Noah's wedding? You'll know, when we know:)
If all of you would, please pray for Leigh, and my family. Everyone is fatigued and stressed. Noah's wedding is on Saturday and we don't know if his best homey is going to even be there. (sorry man!) And if I have failed to mention it, we don't know anything yet (there was frustration in that sentence). Love you all,
Ryan & Leigh
PS This has all happened pretty quickly. We didn't know we would be coming up here at this time. My surgeon is adamant about making sure no complications arise by waiting for any more symptoms to develop.

The tip of May's iceberg of pictures...

Some random photos from the past few weeks...
1. Gabe and I making his birthday cake.
2. I love these clouds that were so randomly hanging out over the lake.
3. Gabe's best birthday surprise was a helicopter landing at the hospital during the open house at Ryan's office. We could see it from the front porch, but that wasn't good enough--D took him across the street and right up to the helicopter! Gabe was in heaven.
4. Ryan and I before the Pigg River Ramble.
5. Gabe enjoying his first cotton candy at the Strawberry Festival.

Too Much to Cram Into One Post

I suppose the major news right now is Ryan's latest check-up at NIH. We were up in the nothern half of the state last Wednesday through Sunday. It was a looong, but fun weekend. The results weren't that exciting, either, so good thing we had lots of fun things scheduled to make the rest of our trip happy. Yup, more surgery in store for Ryan. Last September, his surgeon had planned to remove a tumor on the left side of his cerebellum and take a look at a tumor on his brain stem while he was in there. When he got inside Ryan's head, he found the tumor on the brain stem and was able to remove that, but decided to leave the other tumor there (it was in a difficult location). He drained the fluid from the cyst around that tumor, but didn't take it out, hoping that it would not fill back up with fluid and might just hang out there for awhile. Welll, you know what happened--the cyst filled back up and will need to be remove at some point. He said just to come back in six months unless Ryan starts to feel the symptoms from it before that. It's possible the headaches won't start for a few months, but Ryan kind of thinks it will be before then. Please be praying! None of us are looking forward to another surgery, and we all believe that God is more than capable of doing a miracle here.

Well, I am ready for bed, but I'll try to post a few pictures first. We've had a lot going on! I'll put together a slideshow from our trip to Colorado and put that up here soon, too.