Kellisa's Path, with Egypt

After moving across the country in 2016 and finishing our quest to hike in all 50 states, 2017 was a slow travel year (by our standa...

Lisa Marie Kain May 23, 2017 - Kellisa's 18th birthday! A huge accomplishment and cause for us to be proud as we celebrate her life...

Our family would relocate from Jacksonville, FL to Sacramento, CA in 2016 for my job. Our plan to move at the end of the kid's school ...

The little girl who wasn't suppose to survive more than a few hours at most turned 16-years-old in May 2015. Kellisa endured 22 surgeri...

Lisa was in the final stretch of completing her master’s degree and needed as much peace and quiet in the house as possible. I knew it wo...

After Kellisa's cancer scare at the end of 2012, I wanted 2013 to be a big year for Kellisa. I had the idea of hiking a trail in all 50...

After three surgeries in 2011, Kellisa was able to go another year without a surgery.  We started the year off on the 1st of January wi...

The year started off on a high note as Laurel’s adoption was finalized in January. 

Lisa received an unexpected phone call in October. “We know you’re only interested in school age children, but would you be interested in a...

We continued submitting on children into the new year without and success. We were lucky if we received an email with the subject, "Yo...

The Okefenokee Swamp, the Land of Trembling Earth. One of our all time favorite places to explore and we tried to start each year off w...

Kellisa went another calendar year without a surgery.  Hannah Montana came to Jacksonville in January. The concert sold out in minutes ...

FINALLY!   2007 was the first calendar year that passed without Kellisa having to endure a surgery. Kellisa really started to thri...

2006 started with Kellisa’s 4 th surgery in four months. Both hips were dislocated again, requiring another surgery of cutting bones, inse...

After a couple real hikes in 2004 , I thought 2005 would be our year to get out and explore new adventures. I was wrong, very wrong! Th...

I was traveling a lot for work and when I had to spend the week before Memorial Day weekend in Atlanta, I invited Lisa and Kellisa to join ...

Kellisa wasn’t drinking and her only fluid intake was through the limited food she was eating. There was only so much pudding we could forc...

Kellisa doing her best to smile for her school picture while suffering through  her undiagnosed shunt infection. Kellisa was slowly dyi...

Kellisa finally went a year without a brain surgery. However, her seizures took a turn for the worse. Kellisa spent five days in the hospit...

Kellisa was up at midnight so she could welcome the new year, 2000 into her life since it was a major accomplishment and reason to celebr...