Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving. My prayer time this week is centered on thanksgiving to God....I am abundantly blessed.

San Antonio Family Getaway

In late October, the whole Crouse clan headed for San Antonio for a "Crouse Family Getaway". We rented a large house and stayed from Friday evening to Sunday. We enjoyed playing games, eating a huge pan of brownies, watching football and kids running wild. On Saturday we all went to Seaworld and were treated to a beautiful day, about 75 degrees and sunshine. We loved the shows, feeding the dolphins and Seaworld has quite a few great rides. On Sunday we gathered outdoors near the home we were renting and took our traditional family photos for 2008. All in all we agreed the weekend was fantastic!

One Tough Kid

Many of you pray for Austin and I wanted you to know that his cystic fibrosis is stable right now. That is a real praise the Lord! He had a chest port for intravenous medications put in last December and has only been hospitalized once since. He is on a 14 day on/14 day off schedule for IV antibiotics and is receiving intravenous immunoglobulin infusions once a month. These treatments seem to be keeping him stable. His daily routine is daunting, but with his parent's encouragement he endures with little complaint. God has given him a great spirit of acceptance and hope. Thanks for your prayers....and keep them coming.

Ty's Excellent Fishing Adventure

We had Ty spend the night with Nanie and Papa and the highlight was taking him fishing at the church pond. He was a natural at casting and caught 12 fish, naming nearly every one. He chose to name them after people in his family. There were a couple of "baby fish" he named Nathan. He was a little leary of handling the worms, so this time we baited the hook for him...but challenged him to do it next time.

Fall Sports

I'm a little bummed out today after the elections....but God is sovereign so I will just continue to pray for his protection on our nation!

Steve and I thoroughly enjoy following our grandkids playing sports this fall. Austin loves playing flag football and Ty, Kylie and Andrew are all playing soccer. We did go to Austin once to see Kylie and Andrew play and have made it to nearly all Austin and Ty's games here in College Station. It is great to see the grandkids choosing to be so active...an encouragement to their exercise physiologist grandfather!