Happy Birthday Odie!

Tomorrow is a big day around our house. Odie Podie Pickle Hymer Schmidt will be 27 years old. She was born on Monday October 14, 1985. Odie has been a GREAT BIG bright spot in our lives since the day she insisted on arriving two months early and nearly scaring us two kids to death. She changed our lives for the better and we thank God for her each and every day.

My guess is that Odie got all the early arrivalness out of her system because she has rarely been early since then!

Happy Birthday, Odie! We love you more than you can know!

Please join us in extending Happy Birthday greetings to Odie in the comments.

God bless,

Davy

Here are a few pictures of Odie through the years with family and friends...

2012

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

Another Rough Week for Kari Noe

Kari Noe is in the hospital again struggling with fever. Sis. Ashlee took her in about 3:00 AM Tuesday morning and her fever has pretty much be raging since then. This is the latest text from Sis. Ashlee this morning. (Friday)

There's not really been any change since yesterday. She's still running fevers around the clock and we are seeing that the Tylenol isn't helping at times. We had to use ice packs around 1:00 am to bring it down since it had only been 2 hours since her last dose of Tylenol. They stopped the flu meds because all the tests so far are negative. They are saying it's a bad virus?! Her counts are staying good although platelets have dropped quite a bit, which is to be expected. As long as her counts are good, nobody is too concerned about the virus. It should run its course eventually. Please pray for fevers to go away!

Would you please pray for little Kari, her mother and her brother and the whole family? They need the strength of God right now and we know that God is able to help them. Let's band together, folks and believe God for a miracle!

Davy

A Visit From Mamaw and Papaw Boggs

My Mamaw and Papaw Boggs came down to Tennessee to see us and to be in revival with us at Beechfork. We have had a wonderful time during the day and God has been blessing in the services too. It is so rare that we are able to spend much time with them and to be in church with them. We are enjoying it so much.

They have stayed over another day so I get to have them at least one more day before they go north and we go south. Thanks for coming, Mamaw and Papaw. I love you so very much!

Odie

Of course, EVERYBODY knows that I am their favorite grandchild. Since I was their only grandchild for almost seven years they have had much longer to love me. Right cousins?

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