Hi, Just wanted to let you all know that Seth and I will travel out to Iowa City again next Tuesday, June 17th for his 1st Post Op check up since we left the hospital on May 6. He is doing great and I can't wait for his doctors to see him. They will be very pleased I'm sure. We'll let you know how it went.

I'm not posting much here anymore...

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The Ring

Okay guys. Here it is. Isn't it beautiful? The diamonds on both sides go almost all the way around and are all emerald and princess cut. the clarity and color are at the highest rating, and the total carat weight with the matching wedding band (emerald and princess cut diamonds all the way around) is almost 3 carats!!!!! Wow, Wow, wow! Nicholas you are something else. We all love you very much.

I have started a new blog

Check us out at a new blog address...theEubankFamilyLive.blogspot.com
I have some VERY exciting news to share. See ya there. Love, Vickie

Hi, I'm back

Hi everyone. I have had the hardest time trying to post on my own blog. I kept getting some bogus message that my email address wasn't valid and neither was my password. I really don't know what the deal was. I am trying now from work and it obviously is working fine.
I wanted to give you an update on Seth and our lives.
Seth is doing better than anyone ever thought, (at this point) (it's truly answered prayer). His body is operating at a point the drs. hoped for in 6 months. He feels great (get tired more easily than before his two surgeries). He is going to school everyday. He is in finals now. Please pray for him. He has missed a lot of school this semester, I think about 8-9 weeks all together. He gets an A+ in my book for effort. He has worked very hard to try and keep up. Anyway he is in finals today (Tues., Honors Chemistry) and tomorrow (Wednesday will be 20th Century History and Bible verse test). He will have to make up the Math final and Spanish later. He plans to do the Math final next week. He will be tutored for missing the semester of Spanish over the next three weeks. His teacher says he will have a lot of work but should be able to cover the entire month is three weeks. She, Mrs. Doades will come to the house 3 days a week for 1 hour, for 3 weeks and it's done! Amazing! At that point Seth will officially be a Junior at PCS. Wow.
I realized the other day that he will be 18 in 1 year, 4 months and 14 days! How could this have happened???? Everyone always says, "they grow up sooo fast". I used to just smile and agree. Really thinking, yeah right we have 4 games this week, an athletic banquet and spring concert, and 40 loads of laundry to do. I don't think it happens that quickly." Well it seriously does. I love them at every age. Nick is 27, Noah 25 and Seth quickly approaching 18. Now I am having these yearnings to adopt from China and my husband is doing everything in his power to discourage THAT. He says, just wait we'll have grandchildren soon. That is a whole other emotion thing I have stirring inside me!
OK, so all of that just to say, we are doing GREAT!
I do want to add that we have the best, most wonderful, most generous friends in the entire world. We have had soooo many delicious meals prepared for us over the course of the past 6 months. These people have been "Jesus in the flesh" to us. We love you all VERY much. We have prayed for each of you individually and asked a special blessing be poured upon you. I want recipes from all of you!
Until next time. Have a great week and holiday weekend.
Love, Vickie and Family

Hi, we (I) had a great Mother's Day. It started with coffee this morning and ended with dinner tonight at home with Jeff, Seth, Nick and Aubrey and my friend Carla. Noah had to leave early to run the sound system for College and Career Church (every Sunday night). we miss him, but he got to come over today around 1 (right after church) and stayed until 4:30 and then Nick and Aubrey came at about 4:35. they just missed each other. Jeff parents, brothers and wives and all but one nephew (that lives locally we have a nephew in FL.) came along with my sis, Mary. It was a full house and a lot of fun. I was blessed. Here is a picture taken just before Noah had to leave today. Hope your day was great too. Love, Vickie

Seth before his went on his first "day out" after surgery!!!!! Yeahhh!!!

oops, it came out sicdeways. Sorry. Anyway... how Seth looks now!!!!! Praise God!!!!!

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's out there. The Eubank Family wishes you a Perfect Day. Relax and enjoy your family.
Everything is going great here. Seth has taken the car, picked up a couple of close friends and has driven to another great friends home (Cassie) to hang out for the evening. Yep, you read it right. He is "out". What a difference from last Saturday night when we were celebrating getting our own room in the hospital, and Seth was barely eating! I will especially be celebrating tomorrow!!!
I will have all three of my boys here. We will all be together at church, then Nick and Aubrey will go to her parents home to grill steaks and then here at 3:00 for dessert. Along with all my guys will be Jeff's parents, and his two brothers, their wives and families, and my sister Mary. Almost 25 if everyone can make it.
Until we meet here again, May God bless you and keep you safe. Love, Vickie
PS To all the kids reading this blog. Be especially thankful for your Mom's tomorrow and really love up on them OK. Love, Vic

Hi Everyone ~ If there still is an everyone. There really isn't much traffic on the blog since we came home. Yesterday was a good day for Seth. I think he was tired. He hasn't napped at all since we came home. He is doing good though, everyday he seems a little stronger. Hi appetite is getting much better too. Physically he is healing at a much faster rate than the doctors had predicted. We are very thankful for that. I may post later. I have errands to run this morning. Bye, Vickie

An end to a great day.

Seth had a great first day home. He relaxed. Actually had an appetite. Played a little XBox Guitar Hero, and just chilled.
Our friend Peggy brought us the most delicious dinner of Roast Pork Tenderloin (fantastic and Peggy is a vegetarian??), smashed red potatoes, a beautiful salad and brownies! Is that incredible? Seth along with Jeff and I really enjoyed it.
Seth watched some TV after dinner and Jeff and I walked. I really got my walking in today. I did 8 miles this morning and 7 miles tonight. My hip sockets are BURNIN' baby.
Then my friend Carla came by with lots of goodies, Popsicle, sherbet, cheesecake from a local bakery, sweet bread for breakfast, a beautiful picture frame with one of my favorite pictures of her family. It was great.
Now Seth has had his evening meds and I'M ready to hit the sack.
I thoroughly enjoyed my day, and I know Seth did too. Thanks to all of you for everything. Love to all, The Eubank Family.

Here are the pictures. #1 was taken the morning or the surgery. He was ready to be taken to pre-op where they would start the IV' etc.. #2 Seth on Day #2 and Day#3 and Day #4. #3 and #4 Seth's first food after 6 days! Oh and he really enjoyed it too. The post below is Seth suffering through one of many of our little 4 yr. old room mates bad times. He had they several times a day. He really wanted to go home! Seth spent many hours trying to sleep like this. Note the morphine pump still very close by. This was Very difficult to say the least. When they got Seth and Jeff a different room, it was such a blessing!!! And the last picture is Seth's kidnapping. This area was just outside Seth's room window and 3 floors down. If you scroll down the below the WALK pictures you will see where I attempted this morning to put the pictures on and realized I had to upload in reverse order. Oh well ya live and learn. I am a total embarrassment to my techie kids.

Photo Journal of the past week.

I thought that since it is such a beautiful day today that I would take all of you along with me for my walk this morning. These are a few of the sights we got to see. The trees are budding and some are in full bloom. The sights and smells overwhelmed my senses. Our God is so extremely incredibly awesome, is He not? Look what He has done for us. Jeff and I are so very blessed to have all that we have. I am not in anyway referring to material things. I am talking about God things. Words can not describe how full we feel. Thanks for being on this journey with us through the very difficult, heart wrenching walks to the beautiful walk we took together today. I will try to keep the blog up over the next few weeks. Please stay on the journey with us. The best is yet to come. We love you all. Vickie

I will be putting on some of the pictures we took while we were out there. Obviously I have to start with the most recent and get to the oldest. For now, the 3, should have been two pictures will wet your whistle for what's to come. Bye. I'm going out on my walk now. I'll be back in a couple of hours. Oh yeah!

Monday At 6:30 AM Ticketed Passenger ready to board the ship! See below.


Front Entrance of Iowa City Children's Hospital aka The UICH Cruise ship. Good for 8 to 9 day cruises. Food available for ticketed passengers simply by dialing 1-2-3, for those who can eat! The activity directors are pleasant enough, but most of them specialize in needles, tubes and measuring equipment. And the captain of the ship carries a big knife. Anyone intrested in a cruise?

We Are Home

We got home right at 9P as predicted. We unloaded the car, Jeff went to CVS to fill some prescriptions and I unpacked everything. Seth was hungry, so I fixed him a Grilled Cheese on Wheat and a big glass of White Grape/Cherry Juice. He seems to be very content.
As the three of us walked through the door of our home tonight we all gave the biggest shy of relief. All at the same time said "It is sooooo gooood to be home".
Seth has again temporarily moved into the guest room. No stairs for a couple of weeks. No P.E or sports for4 weeks, no lifting for 4 weeks, then only 10 pounds. He has some restrictions, but nothing we can't live with for a little while. I know as soon as he feels up to it he's gonna want to hit the Vball courts at Riverplex again. I am already in my jamies and kicked back as is Seth and Jeff. I'm going to sign off for tonight. see you again in the morning, probably after my walk. I am sooo looking forward to getting about seven or eight miles in! Yeah I'm home!!!! Love Vic

The next post will be made from home! Sorry we won't be able to meet you Laura P. in person. We will be back out in a couple of weeks for post-op in the clinic. Keep posting on the blog and emailing everyone. Love ya all. V

YAHOOOO!!

WE ARE GOING HOME. DR. S. CAME IN A SAW SETH AND SAID IF WE ARE UP TO IT. WE CAN GO FOR IT. SO WE ARE GOING HOME. I CALLED JEFF AND HE WILL WRAP THINGS UP AT WORK AND HEAD WEST. I EXPECT WE WILL BE LEAVING THE HOSPITAL AROUND 6p AND GET HOME AROUND 9p. OUR NEXT BLOG WILL BE FROM HOME. I WILL CONTINUE TO BLOG AT HOME SO YOU CAN TRACK SETH'S PROGRESS THERE. WE WILL COME BACK OUT TO UICH FOR A POST OP IN THE PED'S CLINIC. TALK TO YOU FROM HOME. LOVE, SETH AND VICKIE

Hi Guys I Am Asking For "Right Now" Prayer

...this time it's not for Seth and it's good! It is for Noah. A few weeks ago Noah was 1 of 2 selected out of over 100 people to interview for a new position with Cat where he works. The interview went very well, but Noah was told he was "Overly Qualified" for the position but they still wanted him in the group. Noah walked away very discouraged, and not very hopeful they would contact him again any time soon. Well they were in touch with Noah about a week ago and he is on his way now to meet with them about another newly created position. The meeting is today, Monday from 1-2. Please pray right now that THIS is the one. This is the job Noah has worked so hard for. It will means so much to his family and him if you will pray. Again we come to you with grateful hearts for loving us so much. Vickie