June 30th

We are counting down until our trip to Australia, everyone is getting excited to get home to see the family and friends. It has been almost five years since we have been back.

It will be very emotional for us all. Debbie's mum hasn't seen Christopher since before the accident, they have always had a very close relationship and this has been very hard for her to have to be so far away.

Just a few more weeks and we will be off. Debbie is going over a little earlier, the boys, Coleman and I will be traveling on the 29th of June. Christopher is still working hard with the therapy team at Pathways. He really likes the Lokomat and how it helps him with his walking. See below:

We will be finishing the therapy sessions in the next few weeks, just before leaving for Melbourne.

Working hard, we are so proud of his never quit attitude!















As soon as we complete the therapy sessions at Pathways w will be packing Christopher's schedule full of new and interesting things. We will be starting sign language with Mitzy Parks another Lassiter teacher. She and Cathy will be working together over the summer to strengthen Christopher's communication skills as well as ours.

He has really enjoyed the time he spends with Cathy and Gary. They both have been awesome, Gary really pushes Christopher past any self consciousness he may have had in the past to do some crazy things.

Terrorizing Walmart

Can't get enough of those hugs.

Smiles all around, what a great influence you are, we would also like to thank Hannah for being there as well.

Well the time has finally come we on our way to Australia. We are all packed and ready to go. Coleman's mom and dad are driving us to the airport. What a great help, save on parking expense. We will be flying first to LA then to Auckland, New Zealand then to Melbourne, Australia. We have a couple hours layover at each stop. Christopher is very excited, we'll see how he goes after 20 something hours on a plane.

Here we are waiting for our flight in LA

Waiting in Auckland, NZ Air was great.

We had to cross half the state of California to get to the international terminal for our flight to New Zealand. Delta lost Christopher's wheelchair seat and back. They put it with another passengers chair. We finally got it back after about 45 minutes of searching.

The staff at New Zealand Air had concerns about doing the same thing, so they made sure they tagged everything, they put the seat and back in the cabin so it wouldn't get lost. Unfortunately they lost the chair instead, so we waited about 30 minutes before we could get to customs. We found the chair in baggage claim.

As we were coming out from custom into the terminal Christopher nearly vaulted himself out of his chair when he saw his Nana. We had a whole clan waiting for us to arrive, it was awesome. Debbie, her mom and sister, Vicki and Allen, what a welcome.