About Us

I am Shawnie and I have been married to my DH for almost 5 years. We are the proud parents to a little girl named Chayleigh (pronounced Shaylee). She is the light of our lives and our whole reason for being.

Chayleigh was born 9-29-04, a month early. She was also diagnosed with having DDH, or Developmental Displacia of the Hips. She had bilateral, which means that both hips were affected. She was placed in a Pavlick Harness for a few weeks, which was able to fix one hip, but the other was still lose. So on January 10, 2005, Chayleigh went into a Hip Spica Cast. The cast went from her upper chest to her ankles on both sides. She was in the cast until April 5, 2005, with one cast change at the end of February. Then she went into a brace.

She came out of the brace right around her birthday and has been doing wonderfully since. She started crawling over Labor Day Weekend, 2005, and as of yet does not walk independantly, but walks around things all of the time. She is our little daredevil and doing wonderfully.