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A Good Treat for a Good Cause
This weekend, you can help support Foster Care Adoption just by buying a Frosty! Participating Wendy's will donate 50 cents from every Frosty purchased on June 14 and 15 to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Their goal is to raise $1.3 million to support the Foundation and Wendy's Wonderful Kids, which funds full-time adoption recruiters to match parents with waiting children.
Since 2004, Wendy's Wonderful Kids has helped 3,500 children in Foster Care, and more than 500 of those children now have finalized adoptions.
So share a delicious treat with your family, and help children in the U.S. Foster Care system find their own forever families!
http://www.davethomasfoundation.org/News/2nd-Annual-Father-s-Day-Frosty-Weekend

Disney

The 7 kids out numbered the 6 adults, the temp was 102, and the lines were long but as you can tell from the pics below we had an AMAZING time at Disney!! THANK YOU NANA & PEPE for such an incredable trip! The memories that were made will last a lifetime! WE LOVE AND THANK YOU!!!

Disney

Cast Be Gone

As most of you know, Sadie broke her arm by falling not once but TWICE from the monkey bars. We aren't sure which of the two falls actually broke her arm but after a trip to Urgent Care, serval x-rays and LOTS of guilt we learned Sadie's arm was indeed broken!! She picked out a beautiful purple cast, had all of her family, friends and many fans sign her cast which she proudly wore for 3 weeks! Oh and by the way, this cast did NOT slow her down one bit. She continued to swim (with her cast tightly wrapped and bagged), she still climbed the monkey bars, played in the "woods" and managed to paint and eat all with her left hand!!! Well, on Tuesday 6/10 just before we headed to Disney we stopped at her ortho for a check up. The x-ray revealed the arm had healed and the cast was ready to come off. YEAH!!!

Good Times

My sister and her family are visiting from PA and my cousin with her son are here from NJ.

The last time I saw my sister was this past January when my nephew Chasen was born and WOW has he gotten big! So has my niece Coral and her brother Canyon!

My cousin Crystal and her son Gage were here about 2 years ago when her son was just 2 1/2.

All of the cousins are having a FANTSTIC time swimming in Nana & Pepe's pool, hanging out in the "woods", selling lemonade to the inocent neighbors and then swimming some more. Even Sadie with her broken arm has figured out a way to swim and not miss out on any fun.

Soon we'll be off to Disney. More pics and updates to come :-)

clothe His children

My friend Jill owns Boomerang consignment store (http://www.boomerangconsignments.com/) here in PSL. Jill knows my heart for orphans and my desire to minister to adoptive families so with my vision and her generosity we created a ministry to clothe His children. Each week Jill DONATES any and all of the stores unsold items. These items range from strollers, pack & plays and walkers to boppy's, and toys, books and games, not to mention clothes galore. You name it this store has donated it! Jill's generosity has blessed families and orphans not just here in PSL and throughout the United States but also as far as Guatemala, Haiti and Russia. Should you or anyone you know be in need of this ministry or if you are traveling to meet your child and would like to bring a clothing donation to the caretakers please reply to this post. For those of you that are local and have not been to Boomerang Consignment yet I highly recommend that you check it out. Jill is an amazing women with a heart the size of Texas and runs one CLEAN & ORGANIZED consignment store.

Jill, I would just like to personally and publicly thank you for who you are and for partnering with me and believing in my vision. I adore you!!

Let the Music Play

Ok Blogger friends,

I am still VERY green at this blogging thing. But I'm setting little goals and forcing myself to become a little more "techy" :-). So today's goal was to add music to the site for your listening pleasure and I DID IT (with very little assistance)!!!

I thought it would be fun to allow the family to help me with the music selection. Here is how the choices break down:

The love of my life chose the following: Mighty to Save and Word of God
Sadie chose: We will Rock You, We are the Champions and Awesome God
Madison: Best of Both Worlds and True Friend
Ethan: couldn't be bothered :-)
All the rest are mine - and truth be told I'm kinda stuck in the 80's :-)

And since its a moment for truth I should add Pour Some Sugar on Me is an ALL time favorite :-)

Happy 5th Birthday Madison