haircut!!!

I got a new haircut! I've tried to change it up a few times a few months ago, but it never turned out right, and I was never totally in love with the hair cut. So I finally broke down and went to a hair salon other than Fantastic Sam's. So I brought a whole bunch of pictures of what I kind of wanted, and the hair stylist had a lot of fun cutting my hair. I, more or less, just wanted to get my hair cut in a new style, new fashion, I wanted something new, and I got something completely new, and I LOVE IT!!! So here are before and after pictures. And then, one of me and Mark! :) Yay for new things, and for feeling great after something so small as a haircut, or a new shirt. It really is amazing how something like a haircut can change a lot. I feel really good.

love always, bry and mark <3

post surgery

Yayyayayayayay! I'm feeling good! Anyways, to fill everybody in, I went in for open heart surgery on February 3rd. That was a Tuesday. That Saturday, I went home. The doctor's said everything was looking good, and I could go home. We were all kind of nervous about my coming home so soon, but it all worked out in the end. Everything started getting easier and better. So anyways, I will tell you of the surgery. I went in for open heart because the dcotor's saw a 20 mm hole in between my baffles (little tunnels for my blood that the doctor's created when I was 2, in the first surgery, to correct to defect I was born with). When the doctor's went in for this surgery, the discovered the cardiac cathiterization was incorrect, the hole wasn't 20 mm, it was 3 inches. All the work that had been done in the previous surgery was undone, the doctor's have no idea when the damage started or even how. But the open heart surgery suddenly went from prevenative/precautionary to life saving. So instead of using the gor-tex to patch up the hole in my heart, the doctor's used inert animal paracardium. They took a part of an animal heart and sewed it into my heart to fix everything. But - everything is fine. I am doing great. things are so good! I went to church yesterday even! I didn't teach my class of 5 year olds, but I still went to church. We just look at everything and see a big blessing. What if I had been pregnant? And they discovered the 20 mm hole that turned out to be a 3 inch gap? We're very grateful that didn't happen, and that everything happened the way it did. Thank you all for everything, for all of your prayers and fasting. We love you all!! Take care - love always, bry and mark!