Birthday Pictures

So here's a picture of the Hoffman family minus G-pa of course, but hopefully soon we'll have him with us.



Lucas really enjoyed his cake, at first he didn't quite what to do, but after a while he got the hang of it and made his mess.



He sure loved being the life of the Party.




Here we are trying to blow his candle out, he would have much rather put his finger in the flame.

Birthday Party

So yesterday was Lucas' first birthday, YAY!!!! He was so excited, OK maybe not really, he had no idea what was going on, but I'm sure he had lots of fun.


Well the day started out with going to church, where Lucas took a 15 min nap, by the way that was the only nap he took all day. After church we came home to got ready to go to the Campground, we tried putting him down for another nap, but it didn't work out.


Well the party went great, Lucas really did have fun and he loved making a mess with his birthday cake. He didn't get cranky all night, it was amazing. I don't have to many pictures yet, because Joy was my official photographer, so she'll get them to me later, at which time I'll post more pictures.



Here's Lucas in his favorite gift. Mom and Dad Hoffman gave him this wagon, it's their traditional first b-day gift, he really loves it.

This picture is really cute. Chris was giving the kids rides around the pavilion, they were having lots of fun, especially Lucas.
So I'll post more pictures later.

Birthday Cake

So tomorrow is Lucas' first birthday, can you believe it? I sure can't. So anyways we are planning on having a semi big party for him, I figured if we were going to do this we were going to do it right. So we have about 60 ppl coming so far, so it's a bit big. A lot of ppl are helping me with food and Jed said we can use the pavilion at Blue Rocks Campground, so it shouldn't be to bad.





So the main reason for the blog today it, my friends and I just got done with the birthday cake. Yeah you heard me "I" made it, with the help of April and Jen of course. It turned out really cute, I'm proud of our work. Thank you Jen and April you two are great!! Oh yeah Lucas wanted to help also, well he mostly liked getting rid of the excess batter for me, he sure liked that. So now for the rest of the day I have to finish making food, go grocery shopping for last minute things I need, and Peter and I are going to go decorate the pavillion, so wish me luck. Anyways I guess I better get to work now.

Praise God, He is good!!

So last night at around 9:15pm Laureen called Peter and I to let us know that Carl had called her to tell her that they found a heart for him. WOW!!! Right? So yeah that is where Peter, Laureen, Mindy, Scott, Pastor John and I were till about 2:00pm today. Peter and I got to Jefferson hospital at around 12 midnight. At that time we got to see Carl till around 2:30am at which time they rolled him away to get prepped for Surgery. He didn't actually go into surgery till about 6:30am, before that they were checking the new heart to make sure it was usable, and Praise God it was. So needless to say it was a really long night for all of us. We tried to "sleep", but the floor in the waiting room of a busy hospital is anything but relaxing, we probably got 2hrs of sleep all night. The surgery went great though, and at around 11:30 am everyone got to go in and see Carl. He's not awake at this moment, but it was nice to see that he is doing great (I have to confess I didn't go in, I knew I would cry). For the full unabridged story of the wonderful news you can go to Carl's website. So it was great news last night, but we are not out of the woods yet. There is still risk of infection, rejection and other things, so we ask that you continue to pray.

On another not so happy note, about 2 min. after we heard about the heart Peter saw he had a voicemail from his doctor. Peter had been feeling bad for about one week, so finally he went to the doctor on Mon. at which time he was sent for blood test, x-rays, and all sorts of other things. So back to the point, Peter got this voicemail, his doctor called to let him know he has Mononucleosis and Hepatitis, due to the mono. Yeah, so he's really not feeling well, and I have to take care of him :) He has had mono before which is weird that he has it again, because they say that once you get it once you're not suppose to get it again, but I guess he's weird:) So anyways if you can pray with us for thatas wellit would be great, pray that Peter heals soon, and that Lucas and I don't get sick too. Well have a great night.

G-pa Hoffman

So today Peter, Lucas and I drove to Philly to visit G-pa Hoffman at the hospital. For those of you who do not know, G-pa Carl Hoffman is in the hospital at Jefferson in Philly. On October 15, 2007, he was taken by ambulance to Lehigh Valley Hospital because he was very weak and having trouble breathing. After many tests it was determined that he was in multi-organ failure due to the weakness of his heart, which was only working at about 10% capacity. That was almost 3 months ago, right now he is feeling much better, but he now waiting to get a new heart.




So anyways as I was saying we all went to visit today, we usually do go every Sunday. It makes for a long day, but it's still really nice to get to visit him and he really enjoys having visitors, especially Lucas :) This picture isn't from today, but I think it's really cute because they both have their John Deere caps. This was Carl in Nov. he was still pretty rough then, but feeling better every day.








This picture was taken in Dec. you can see the big difference in Carl, here he's out of his hospital gown, and into his own Jeans and T-shirt so I'm sure that makes him feel 100% better. For more information on how Carl is doing you can visit his web page at: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/carlhoffman



This is a site dedicated solely to him, my sister-in-law Mindy is the one that usually keeps it updated, it's pretty cool so check it out.







So today we stayed for about 3 hours, really all there is to do there is sit and talk, which G-pa appreciated a lot. Usually we go out to the waiting room because it's bigger and carpeted, that way Lucas can crawl around and not get so rowdy. G-pa got to hold him for a bit while he drank his bottle. Thena all the boys went for a walk, while I stayed back and read :) So anyways that's really the only intersting thing that happened today, see you all next time.

New Year, New Life

So my brother Daniel has been bugging me to make a web site, so I figured starting 2008 I'd start one, I hope I can keep it updated. I'm not as good as Laura and Katie with my words so you might get bored once in a while, so for that I'm sorry. Really the real reason for this Blog is so that my parents and relatives in Mexico can see how big Lucas is getting, it really has nothing to do with Peter and I, it's pretty much all about Lucas.

Januray 2nd 2008, wow can you believe it? Well I find it hard to believe I've been here in the USA for 7 years now, and what 7 years they have been. I Love it!!

So for New years eve Peter, Lucas and I went to Chris and Jenn's house for our annual new years eve get together. At about 10pm we headed out to go to Blue Rocks for the rest of the night. Can you believe that Lucas stayed up the whole night to watch the ball drop? He is quite the little party animal.

Well that is all I have for now, I have to go make dinner also. So I'll try again tomorrow, and I hope that you guys enjoy.