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2016 - Year in Review

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I think it's safe to say that 2016 was our most eventful year to date. That's saying a lot looking back at the past 5 years especially. On January 27, we finalized the adoption of our 8th child. God provided everything we needed and more through our family, friends and church. The next few months were filled with minimal sleep, buckets of tears and multiple days saying "goodbye" to Judah. He had so many brushes with death. Twice his shunt malfunctioned and we were told that we could lose him within hours. He refused to eat for 3 straight days at one point, had multiple respiratory viruses that we were afraid would turn into pneumonia. The scariest two days were when we put him on a medication for hypertonia and he reacted horribly to it and began seizing uncontrollably, throwing up almost constantly. I planned his funeral every time we had a scare. By the time June rolled around, I felt like I couldn't take much more of the rollercoaster. Just