Berry Picking

Our first adventure into berry picking! Which means to Megan, pick them out of Grandpa's bucket and eat them :-)


She did her best to pick...well any of them red or green.

We called her our "quality control' as she would take one bite and them return it to your bucket :-)

I don't remember being this cute while picking berries :-)

A little fun in the sun later that day :-)

Waiting.....

I find that waiting to be picked for a baby is the hardest part about adoption. There are so many doubts and worries that creep in during this time.  I work really hard to focus on God's perfect timing and try to enjoy each day as we have it!  So here are a few pictures of our enjoyment of each day as we wait!

Planting our front flower bed

Learning to make sweet tea

Camping trip at bowl and pitcher

Family dinner

Hanging out with cousins

Hiking around

Hanging on the bridge

Experiencing some ash/dirt

How we eat while we are camping...total relaxation :-)

I guess she was hot :-)

Thank you all for your prayers for us!!

Order now!

We are putting in our t-shirt order this next week, so order now so you can get the size and color that you want!!

CHOSEN

A little over two years ago, Ian and I got the amazing phone call that we had a little girl waiting for us. Pictured above is the first time we got to hold Megan seconds after she was born, she was -and is- such an amazing blessing to us!!

7 months later, Megan officially became a part of our family.  God has given us the desire to continue to care for the orphans and we are embarking on another adoption journey this year.

We will be working through the same domestic agency, as we did with Megan, and are in the waiting period to be picked as a family.  As you may know adoption is fairly expensive and we have been blessed by SO many people who have helped us with our adoption journey's. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

This time around we decided to do something exciting and try selling some adoption t-shirts.

We have designed this t-shirt to symbolize how we feel about the orphans and how God views each one of us, as Chosen children, not unwanted or unloved, but chosen.

The Gray/Burnt Orange t-shirt comes in all sizes of the unisex shirt.

The Black/Blue t-shirts comes in all sizes of a more fitted women's shirt, as shown.

The t-shirt inscription says:

Chosen

I will hear the orphans cry Ex. 22:23

All t-shirts are $25.00 each

Charcoal Gray

Unisex

Size

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Black

Women's

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If you feel so inclined and you want to donate WITHOUT receiving a t-shirt, please use the Donate button below.

Projects and Easter fun

After 5 years of redoing our horrible sprinkler system EVERY year, I have finally found the solution to having money left for my plants.  Buy before we turn the sprinkler system on :-)  So this year I redid a couple of beds in our yard.  This first picture is under our new garden window, you might notice that nasty piece of work out equipment is FINALLY gone!!  Planted some new plants that I had not heard of, helleborus, I think they will be really nice right there.

I also planted some new rhodedendrins..pretty sure thats not spelled right.   They are one of few plants that can handle the hot and cold over here.

Inside the house, I took down the big quilt hanging up and went for a more modern look with a family picture tree.  I think it turned out pretty good.

Megan's yearly Easter picture with her basket and duck, can you believe two years ago she fit in that basket?

Easter afternoon turned out beautiful and was sunny and nice, we had about 5 families over for lunch and an Easter egg hunt.  Thanks to Ian for doing a great job of hiding eggs for all age levels!

Waiting for the hunt to begin....

Megan loved it and ran around collecting eggs, until due to tripping she spilled her basket and an egg popped open revealing candy...so she plopped down and started eating and that was the end of the hunt for her :-)

The airplane swing is back in motion and a huge hit for all the kids.

Megan's new sand/water toy thanks to Great Grandma Williams!!

Bedazzled hair :-)

So I needed a few hair things for Megan but they are VERY expensive to buy, so I decided to start making them!
Here are a few of my first ones, of course I love gerber daisies so that was an obvious choice :-)



Then I needed some for a wedding that Megan will be in.. yes her debut as a flower girl, so I tried to match the wedding flowers, I thought it turned out pretty nice.

I love putting them with a pony tail, they just look so cute!!

25 cent sale

Yes, you will all be jealous, but I found these books for 25 cents today and I am SO excited about having them!  A childhood memory