Snooky Great: Mia's First Vacation

Monday, February 09, 2009

Mia's First Vacation

This weekend we went to Santa Barbara on vacation. This was Mia's first vacation. Oh, we've been away from home before and spent the night at other places also, but never for fun, it's always for a doctor's visit. So, this was fun for us.

About 4 months ago, I was searching on the web for Mia Sturm, just to see what was out there and another blog showed up with another Mia Sturm...you can imagine my awe (what a great choice for a name!)...and the family lived in California...Santa Barbara at that. Well, I sent them a message and we started talking...there was no relation, but we found out they were believers also and they started praying for our Mia! About a week ago, Chrystal left me a comment and asked if we wanted to come stay at their home while they went away for the weekend...and that's what happened, we went to stay at the Santa Barbara Sturm's home!

It was such a nice time, we walked down by the beach on the wharf one day, Mia loved having me help her chase the birds. If it was an animal, she was excited. There were some dogs on the wharf and she couldn't get enough of them. We spent yesterday going to Reality Church (the Santa Barbara Sturm's church) and then we went to the zoo in the afternoon. That was alot of fun also, Mia loved the Lemurs and the Penguins and the Giraffes...Daddy loved the Capybara, although he wouldn't turn around and only showed us his bum. And then last night we got to finally meet the family we were staying with. Mia and Mia face to face, it was really cute. Their Mia is actually short for Mianna, but it was neat to say Mia and have them both look at you! We had such a nice visit with them that evening, it was like hanging out with old friends, thank you Santa Barbara Sturms!!!! We had a great time!

Before we left this morning, we got some pictures of the two Mia's. And then we were off, but not before we had a yummy pancake breakfast on the beach! By the time we were driving home it was raining over the grapevine and there was so much snow on top, it was neat. We were glad to be home and safe...

Pray for us tomorrow, I am supposed to take Mia to LA to get her helmet adjusted. We'll see how the weather is though, I won't be going if the grapevine is closed or it doesn't look promising.

1 comment:

Eliza said...: Looks like you guys had a great time! What a blessing to get to go on such fun get away!; 3:40 PM

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Mia's Story

Mia was born October 12th, 2007. Lisa's water broke early at 34 weeks and she was in the hospital for 2 weeks because she didn't go into labor. During that time, they noticed a blocked intestine in Mia and determined that she should be delivered down at UCLA. So, at 36 weeks, Mia was delivered via C-section (because she was breech). We know that was a God thing because after she was born we found out her heart had not completed closing off the four chambers (an AV Canal) and a stressful delivery might not have been best for her. We also found out she didn't have an anal opening and her right nostril was blocked. Months later we would find out her skull had fused early. All of these things required surgeries. On May 1st, 2008, Mia had surgery on her skull and suffered a stroke during it. The doctors told us she would only "eat, breath, smile and laugh". People from all over had already been praying for Mia, but so many more joined in and she is truly a miracle because she continues to progress far beyond what anyone would have imagined. This is our blog to document that journey of our little girl, thank you for praying and we hope it will encourage you as much as it encourages us. God is good, all the time!