Travis Lately ~ Spring 2015

This update is way overdue.

Travis, my beloved Travis.  

Some days I still just can't even believe.

We all love this guy so much.  

Five years later,
and it's still just so hard

to believe
YET so miraculous at the same time.  

Travis continues to be charming as 

ever to so many people...

mainly through Facebook,

anytime he's out and about

(it's totally like being with someone famous!),

and to the many who have come to love him.  

LIKE these two very special friends of

my mothers who are in her 

Sunday School class.  They

are as nice and sweet as ladies can come...

Proverbs 31 women if you will:)

The one on the right has just

beat cancer.  Travis brought 

her much joy and encouragement

during her own trial.  

They loved getting to come

see Travis!

My sisters and I follow some

TBI Facebook groups and one is

about "swallowing".  One day Michelle

came upon this new devise being

created.  Lynna began to research it

and found two doctors in Temple

willing to take on Travis.

God is STILL very much involved

in Trav's healing!!!

It's so amazing.  

Lynna and Travis LOVE the doctors

and they love Travis.  They are young

and cool and motivated and encouraged!

WOW.  Just Wow.  

The whole process is VERY arduous

and involved and takes many, many

"takes" and there are no guarantees.

But hope.  We have hope.  

It's obviously not the future

we ever planned upon for our Travis,

but we have such HOPE.

God is going to make good come from all of this.

Perhaps even the good has already been

done and accomplished

and we won't know what it was until Heaven.

PLEASE, please if you are reading this,

pray that this will work for Travis.

To help him be able to eat AND speak again.  

We'd give anything.  

Thankfully, Baylor is still allowing

Travis to come for speech therapy.

With Lynna being retired, it's been

awesome for her to be able 

to take him and to be his full time

advocate.  I don't know what he'd

do without his amazing mama!

This was his speech therapist at

Baylor in the spring.  

Travis also continues to do horseback

riding therapy which is AMAZING for him.  

We were thrilled to go out for

his Spring Show!!!!!!!

Seeing Superman ride is AWESOME(:

Travis has come so far ...

So handsome:)

Travis has always loved animals

so much...these horses are 

no exception whatsoever.  

The people out at REACH are

so wonderful and amazing.  

First Place Ribbons of course! 

Travis has fun out there

and everyone just adores him!

His two favorite aunts cheering him on:)

And Grandmother of course!!!

Awesome men who work out at Reach!

This lady just ADORES Travis!!!!

They are so funny together:)

Proud Dad

We are all so proud:)

We just love him a little;)

But he loves us a little, too;)

Laughter.

Travis brings our lives so much laughter.

I've always imagined that God likes laughter.

 Oh Travis.  La Tante loves you dearly.  

So handsome!

Such a miracle!!!!!!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you

Dear Lord!

Lots of Laughter(:

Recently I came across some of my

fave Trav pics...this one is still 

in Grandmother's guest bathroom!

Oh those eyes..........

Travis and Hadlee ~

He was crazy about her.  Still is(:

But I don't know that there was ever

a person more crazy about another

than I was over him......

Sometimes I think about if I could go

back to one moment in time...

which moment would it be?  Maybe the day 

before Trav's accident when I called

to see if he was working so we could

come by and see him.  He was reading

in bed ~ told me he loved me before

I even told him.  OR would it be to

a day like this ~ one of those times

when this handsome, free spirited,

fun loving guy would whisk in and 

charm every person in the room

with his good looks and million dollar

smile.  He could talk me into anything.

Instead I just thank God for today, for 

the present, for the fact that I'm not 

mourning Travis for the rest of my days

on earth.  That he was given a second

chance.  That "I" was given a second

chance to make better of my life, too.

I guess the hardest part is that

I can handle this and I can understand

it for the most part.  I take comfort in

the LONGing and the faith of

the day when I WILL know the purpose

of all of this.  My heart just aches for 

Travis.  His days are hard.  Lynna's

days are hard.  The empathy I feel

for them overtakes me at times.

Especially because there's just 

not much I can do.