Evan the preemie

Looking at Evan now, you'd hardly believe he was born 9 weeks early, weighing just over 3 pounds. Five years ago last week we brought him home from the hospital, a month before his original due date, after he'd spent nearly six weeks in the NICU. The first few months were the hardest, and we've had some rough patches since then, but overall we feel very lucky that Evan is here and doing as well as he is now.

In Evan's honor, Mike is walking in Walk America again this year. We took last year off because of my huge belly, and thankfully Eden filled in for us. But this year it's back on. Since the Walk for Autism is the same weekend, and since we have two kids now and we're too chicken to take them both on a six mile hike, I'll be doing the autism walk and Mike will be doing Walk America. If you can spare some change, and if you're not walking yourself, please consider sponsoring Mike as he walks for Evan and all the other babies born too soon. Thank you.