Prayer

We just had a quick note from Kay:

"Please keep my brother Chuck in your prayers. He is in back surgery again this morning.Pray for God's healing to be on his back.This is the second back surgery. We pray it works this time.God's Blessings to all.Corky and Kay "

Jordan

Please check out this link and keep Jordan (son of Lee and Lisa, of Uncle Herm and Aunt Joan) in your prayers.

Update on Chris

Hi Everyone-
Chris' results from his biopsy came in today and the large lymph node is benign, which means its not cancerous. His biopsy was on tuesday and they took 5 samples out of the node, they said it is 50% larger than the rest, and there was another one that is slightly larger than normal. The nurse said that could be why he feels the pressure in his throat. He will go to the ENT doctor again for a followup and so they can work on a solution for this pressure. Thank you so much for all the thoughts and prayers for Chris, it means so much. I am just so thankful.
Love, Kim

New Bloggers

Ok we have two new bloggers to welcome into the family blogging community...

First is Maria (daughter of Daryl and Kath, of Kryna and Dick).

Second is Bethany (daughter of Scott and Molly, of Arie and Betty).


Mark them as your favorite folks and for pity sake...please leave a comment or two, we all love it, you know we do!

Prayer Please

Please keep lifting up Chris Wrathall in your prayers as he undergoes a needle biopsy of his lymph node in his throat today.. Also Corky's daughter and grandson from previous marriage as they undergo chemo treatments for cancer. Pray for God's healing hands on all of them. See Kim and Kay's blog for more info. God Bless All.

Info Please!

Ok, I know it seems as if we are always asking for new information, but we really do need it this time! Things change so fast. We are putting together the address books for the reunion and it is crucial that we have up to date contact details.

To make it a little bit easyer, copy and paste the basic info below into your e-mail and fill in the appropriate information. Please send it to: sparkiethe8thdwarf@hotmail.com

Name and address:

Home phone:

Cell phone:
E-mail/e-mails:
Blogs:
Websites:

Date of births:

Anniversary:

We also would like to put your family picture under your imformation (like the last address book...love it!) So if can send a picture through sometime as well that would be great. If not, we may be forced to use ones which would normally reserved for blackmail. :)

Update on Kim

Here is an update on Kim, its a letter that Kay sent to me. Please keep praying for her.

Things were looking good, but not this morning. Kim had a bad night last night and had to go into surgery at noon. They removed about 10-12 inches of her intestine. The absess she had in there they think ruptured and that part of the intestine was perforated. So they removed that chunk and connected in again and sewed her up. She has an incision that is about 8 inches long going up and down the middle of her stomach. She's still experiencing alot of pain. They have her on a morphine pump so she can push it every time she needs it, or else it just gives her a dose every hour.

Please Pray for Kim and Jesse

Hi All, I just received this from Kay, please keep them all in your prayers.

Just wanted to ask for some family prayers for Kim and Jesse. Kim was admitted to Luverne Hospital on Mon, afternoon. Had severe stomach pain. Did some tests and finally found an absess on or in (I'm not sure) her intestines. As of this morning(Tues) they were thinking of doing surgery to remove it, but decided to try treating with steriods first. They are going to keep her in the hospital and watch her and see what happens. If the steroids start to work they will keep using them to try and heal this, if not she will have to have it removed.

For now the pain has stopped and she slept well. Jesse was about to start his shift of work yesterday when her pain got really bad. He didn't have time to get anyone to cover for him, so he put Kim in his squad car and and drove down the road at who knows what speed, called her mom to meet them on the highway and her mom took her the rest ot the way to the hospital. Kim said that was quite the experience.

If you could please keep them in your prayers. Jesse for patience because he doesn't do so well with these medical things, and Kim to get thru this and we pray that this isn't the start of many problems with her Chrones Disease.

Thanks everybody! We love you all and will keep you informed!

Evon

Aaron & Meg

Meghan McDonough and Aaron Rozeboom (of Gerrit, of Kryna) were united in marriage August 30, 2008 at 12 p.m. in Grand Rapids, MI.

Welcome to the wonderful world of VanHofwegen's Meg!

They will be living in Springfield, Missouri when they return from their honeymoon.

Ellie Marie denHollander

This has been a very long time in coming, but here we welcome into the world little Ellie, born to Lanette and Tim (of Gerrit and Evonne, of Kryna and Dick).

Ellie was born June 2.

Jeff Nord

It is with a heavy heart that we post today. Jeff Nord has gone to be with the Lord. He passed away on Friday evening. We pray that the Lord would grant much comfort and upholding to Jayne and the family.

Jayne, Dalaynee, Andrew, Zack we love you all so much and we are very privileged to be able to count Jeff not only as family here on earth, but also as a dear brother in Christ.

Please check here for memorial service details.

Like the New Header?

A BiG THANK YOU goes out to cousin Laur for making a new header for our blog. Coincidently it actually goes very well with the theme Kryna has been working hard on for the '09 Reunion. Good work!

Note From Kay

Be sure also to check out the links on the sidebar. Kay has recently started a blog. Here is the address:

http://kay-wwwcorkyandkay.blogspot.com

you'll also find it under "Members of the Clan".

This is an update on my dad, Case. He seen the nurologist today and got the results from the mri of the brain. Parkinsons was ruled out.What a blessing. They only seen one little wave and they said it was possibly from his sugar diabetes.Next week now they are supposed to see the heart specialist and get the results from the other tests.He started his therapy and mom said he seemed actually impressed.May God bless everyone.Corky and Kay

Aaron & Meg

Aaron Rozeboom and Meghan McDonough are engaged! Yeah!

The wedding is set for August 30, 2008 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

If you can make it out to MI, they would love to see you.

Update on Uncle Case

Uncle Case has been having some more testing this week . They have been having some frustrations with the Dr. so please pray it all goes well and for patience for Uncle Case and Aunt Albertha.

Roland

As promised, here is a picture of newest memeber of the Van Clan.

Welcome Roland James!

Note: If anyone has any news, be sure to e-mail me. Or if you don't have a blog, just a quick little family update to post would be great too.

Roland James

We welcome into this world, Roland James Neptune! He is the son of Bridgette and Allan (daughter of Char and Scott Pitman, of Aunt Liz). He was born Wednesday, March 12, 2008. He was 8lbs 5 oz. and 20 3/4 in long. He has lots of dark hair and is being very good for mom!

Update on Jeff

This is the latest on Jeff via Laur:

"Today is a pretty good day. Jayne just called and they had an appt with another doctor today to see if Gamma Knife was a possibility for treatment. He first of all noticed Jeff's cap which had Isaiah 40 on it...he quoted the verse right to Jayne and Jeff, isn't that somthing? So, he loves Jesus, that is always a plus! He tooked at Jeff's films and said, I think I can help you. It's a treatment called Tomatherapy (sp?) and he says he thinks the odds are 50/50 that he can either stop it from growing, shrink it or get rid of it altogether. That's better odds than we've been given as of late. Jeff will have to have treatment twice a day for 3 weeks in a row...there in Illinois. We're trying to work out the logistics for that yet, but we'll make it work. Jayne is a little scared because one of the possible side effects is some permanent memory loss..so pray about that. She asked me to ask you all to please keep praying, they have definetly felt your support this last week. And with a God like we serve, we just might get our old Jeff back...wow, that would be cool, huh? Thanks for your support, love and prayers. We are blessed to have each and every one of you in our lives! Praise the Lord!"

For previous information about their IL trip, check out Jeff and Jayne's blog, www.nordsville.blogspot.com

Matter of Prayer

This is just something to keep in prayer. Note last posts comments from Kay:

"Keep my dad (Case) in your prayers as he has been getting testing done to try and figure out why he is so dizzy and light-headed. He has seen the nurologist and has to see the heart specialist also.They did a brain scan, and are going to do a mri and echogram etc.One doctor thought he might have the start of parkinsons. We pray that is not it. "

"I was wondering also, does anyone know any family medical history? I know grandpa Van Hofwegen had parkinsons. Is there anything else for future reference.Mom had said to me, the Van Hofwegens never get sick you know.I think it would be good to know all these things. Pass the info on somehow if anyone knows anything. Thanks. Kay"

Anniversary Wishes

We send out our warmest Anniversary wishes to Uncle Case and Aunt Albertha today!

It is 59 years!

A Little Update On Jordan Beld

Hey Clan, I received this note from Lisa earlier today I just thought I would pass it on. -L

Hello everyone

We had our visit at children's today for Jordan's heart issues. I will try to make this brief and somewhat in "normal" terms.

So he has two problems 1) A-Fib 2) Right bundle branch blockage

both are rare at his age and even more rare together. The Dr at children's said he sees maybe 5 a year with one problem and rarely both.

All of the test we have taken so far,( the file is thick according to the Dr) have been fine, other than showing what we already know.

The Dr released him to start running and playing basketball etc so Jordan was pretty happy about that. (this morning he told us that last night while at the hotel him and his friend took the stairs down all 11 floors at a fast pace--nice to know! :)

So the next step we are taking is to have some Genetic Testing done. They want to determine whether or not it is an inherited problem and if its something the other kids could have. When I mentioned that I have glaucoma and how fast it came on, that seemed to have linked something that could show up as a heart issue in Jordan--very confusing.

We will have the tests done in Aug. along with another Treadmill, EKG and hopefully things will just settle down and not cause more problems.

So the Dr was not able to put what he has into a diagnosis with a reason or prediction on why it happened or where it will go from here. It will just be a bit of a wait and watch situation until we have more tests in Aug.

We are happy and relieved that he will be able to resume his normal activity and pray that his symptoms will not return.

I might not have emails for everyone so feel free to email this to more people that would like to know :)

Thanks for all your prayers and support I hope this makes some sense to everyone.

Lisa

Our Hearts Go Out to Corky and Kay's Family

Corky's brother recently passed away from complications involving pneumonia. Corky's brother Joe went in a week ago with pneumonia and was put on life support until the family made the decision to remove him from it yesterday. He had been having several problems for awhile which were complicated by the failing of his kidneys and liver. Thanks to everyone for their prayers. Please pray for comfort for the family. We're all thinking about your family in this difficult time.

Another Blog in the Family

Hey everybody, I just wanted to let you all know that Kim Wrathall (daughter of Corky and Kay Thibodeaux) now has a blog. Check it out at http://thibwrat78.blogspot.com/
Great job Kim, its good to have you on the web!

Prayer Request for Jordan Beld

Hi everybody, just wanted to let you all know that Jordan of Lee and Lisa Beld has been having some heart trouble. We need to remember to keep all of them in our prayers. For updates and information on what's going on with them check out the Beld blog at: http://www.justusbelds.blogspot.com/

Two New Bloggers

We just found out that Jessica, daughter of Tony and Arlys (son of Kryna) has started blogging. You can visit her at http://jessicaroze.blogspot.com/
So be sure to check it out and see what she is doing in Costa Rica!

Also Rochelle (daughter of Char (daughter of Liz) and her husband Brain have joined the blogging world. Keep in touch with them at http://photopiatwo.blogspot.com/

Sign Up Today!

Hey everybody, I just wanted to remind you all to think about registering for the 2009 VH reunion. Its not too late so be sure to contact us, there are lots of payment plans so hopefully it will work for everyone. There's been a good turnout so far but I know that its hard to keep up with all of this so close to the holidays and right into the new year. A few of you have asked about refunds later on if something arose. The facilities that we are working with are great so we should be able to refund as late as a month before the event. We have so much planned for this reunion, please try not to miss it. If you have any questions or concerns be sure to ask we'll work with you any way we can, our main goal is that everyone is able to participate and have a memorable time at this reunion!

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