5K Awesomeness

The 5K was a fantastic success!!!  Thank you to everyone who came, and to everyone who supported it.  It was wonderful to finally meet The Weimer's (Lana and Ryan are simply amazing) and their wonderful little boys.  (Bryce, you little Casanova?  You stole my heart).  These are just a few of the pictures from the 5K. Once the photographer is done editing I will post more :)

 

A Father's Heart

"Our little family is good.  Everyone is as healthy as life allows, and we are being well taken care of by our Father in Heaven.  How I love and appreciate how much my Father in Heaven looks out for my family.  I have a job, and we live comfortably. How grateful I am. Ahh (deep sigh). 
You know when your children have a disease where the prognosis is you will likely watch them die, your heart is never fully free to not live in fear.  To not live in the fear that one day you will experience heart wrenching pain, and anguish.  As deep down as you try and bury the knowledge that you will experience a loss that burns throughout your life, it somehow manages to remain near the surface.  
I love my boys.  I love and miss my sweet Princess Addi.  
I love my children.



I think lately Keaton is beginning to understand his unique situation, and his physical limitations. More now then ever before he says how he wishes he could walk.  I had the privilege of helping him get off the toilet and clean his bum and I said to him. “Shoot bud how are we going to do this when you are HUGE!?” Keaton responded directly and without any apparent fear, “Well, I probably won't be alive.”
Like cold, frozen daggers piercing my heart I saw in Keaton the knowledge of his mortal and compromised body.  What child do you know that doesn't respond with "when I grow up?" to simple questions about life? Without us really ever talking about it, Keaton knows that his version of growing up is very different.  I asked him, “Pal why do you think that? Why'd you say that?”  He said, “Well Dadda, people that don't walk probably don’t live long.” 


My heart sank like the Titanic hitting cold reality knowing that my son knows about his mortality.  If I didn't have a testimony I would be able to say to you, and look you in the eyes, I cannot go through losing another child.  If I had a choice I would not.  I would get lost in some drug induced coma and end up floating off the shore in Vietnam.  There are days where all I want to do is crawl into a hole, disappear, and cease to exist or feel.  But alas I am asked to carry on.  To move forward, firmly holding to that hope in Christ.  
So I will, for in Him will I find an eternal reprieve to sorrow and loss, a reward for standing up and walking on." 


-Ryan Weimer

Time for Weimer 5K

Hello everyone!  Reminders here.  The 5K is in less than three weeks, and we need to have the shirts ordered by August 1st so the screen printing company can have them done by 5K day.  If you have not yet registered, or if you want a shirt and have not yet asked, you MUST do so before August 1.
We are sending in the order on the 1st, so if you wait too long you may not get a shirt.  Thanks to those who have registered and donated, and we will see you in a few weeks!

Email timeforweimer@gmail.com if you have any questions.

For Addi

There isn't much that can be said when it comes to losing a loved one.  Especially if that loved one left far too soon.  I asked Lana to send me some info on Addi.  I didn't know her while she graced this earth, but from stories and pictures I feel a part of me will always belong to that sweet little girl.
As a mother, it is difficult to express what is felt when you think of your children.  A mother always knows, or so goes the saying.  We are meant to kiss away hurt, to lift, and to hold.  The following entry came from what I am sure are the deepest, and most sensitive parts, of a soul.  Dear, Lana?
You are indeed a woman made of something stronger.



"The other day, after Keaton went to school, I heard an ambulance and fire truck outside.  When I looked out the window, sure enough, there they were parked in front of our neighbors home.  I became suddenly sick, and my heart started beating faster as the events of the morning that Addi died came rushing back into my mind.  Then?  I cried.  It was the worst day of my life, and those sirens will forever bring it back to my mind.  Addi had been sick, and came to me and said, “Mama, I need to throw up.”  I tried to calm her, and when she did throw up, bile from her stomach came out.  When that happened, she couldn’t breath.  I told her to relax and try to breath.  She muttered an “Ok” and I said, “don’t try to talk.”



She tried to breath, and I tried to calm her but to no avail.  She began to suffocate while I tried everything I could think of to save her.  I did CPR until the paramedics came.  When the paramedics arrived, I had hope that they could somehow save her.  I took Keaton in the other room, so he didn’t have to watch anymore, and I said a prayer with him pleading that she wouldn’t die.  I hoped against hope that they would be able to save her. 
They rushed Addi to the hospital, and we followed.  When we arrived the doctor told us they did everything they could.  "She is gone," he said.  Gone."

"It still hurts to remember that day, but I will always remember Addi.  I will always love her, and I know she will always be with me.  I am grateful for that, and I am grateful for her.  The day she died was the worst day of my life, but while she was here she gave me many of the best days.  Those are the days I hold on to the most because those are the days that really matter."

Just Being Kids

Who doesn't love camping?  And kite flying, and swimming, and eating s'mores.....
Oh, to be a child :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoRllfVz-DQ

Shirts

Hello everyone!  The 5K is drawing nearer, and we have finally finished the shirt design :)
Registration for the 5K is open, and donations for the Weimer family, as always, are welcome!

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As previously stated, if you cannot attend the 5K, but would still like a shirt, please email timeforweimer@gmail.com.  Thanks everyone!

Memorial Day

Remembering loved ones.

And loving those still here