INTO THE AMAZON: A Beta Version of Our Brand New Trailer. from Douglas Phillips on Vimeo.
This is way too cool.
We did the course, and LOVED IT.
If you can’t see the video, click here.
Way too cool…
Kaye
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Finally! (reposted one year later)
remembering R's Officially Ours Day one year ago today!!!
God is good and we are remembering that joy! Blessings and stay cool today! Kaye
Yesterday came and went quickly.
Up at 5:30, up north by 9:45.
Into the courtroom at 10:30, out of the courtroom by 10:34.
Quick as that.
But still a huge, exciting, tear filled, love filled day for our family.
Because R is finally ours for good and forever!
finally standing in front of the courthouse
our house busy at 5:30 am with excitement to leave
the church in front of the courthouse
how cool it is that the name of the church, in front of the courthouse where our family was made complete, was Bethlehem.
walking up the stairs to the court area
the robin that followed us all the way from the parking lot, down the sidewalk, on the sign, to the entrance
getting smiles from the people in the court area
the beautiful corsages that Miss Ellen surprised us with! One for each of us. This is a photo of what us girls’ corsage looked like.
FOUR MINUTES in the courtroom, paper signed, and walking out just stunned...
the happy tears on the way home
chocolate milk- the treat R wanted to celebrate
subs at Jimmy Johns
phone calls of joy and celebration throughout the day from praying family and friends
God is SO GOOD to us and we are just thrilled that our adoption of R is final and complete! Yeah!!
(kaye ann)
Thursday, June 2, 2011
So Much to Read… So Little Time!
I have been following a bunch of bloggers in the Philippines this week as they travel with Compassion International, a child sponsorship and relief aid Christian organization.
They have some great blog posts that will challenge, inspire, and make you smile- and cry- at the same time.
Would you like to read them too?
Shaun Groves on the neighbors next door… a big reality check… but a good one, and his explanation, his surprise, and isn’t that just how God works? :)
Patricia on the ‘unhappy’ kids… :) big smiles with this one!
Kat with her video to one of our family’s favorites
Emily and her awesome perspective on the transportation and life they live there…
Stephanie and her stories of these kids! and how they are being helped by compassion… and Christ!
And, okay.
Totally switching gears now…
I am SO with Jasmine on this…
please please PLEASE don’t say this to me.
Thanks.
:)
Kaye
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
So…
Would you like to get new stories that I publish on my other blog Birdhouses and Band-Aids sent to your email?
click here, then look to the left.
There will be a heading about midway down that says “enter your email below to receive the latest stories in your inbox”.
Type in your email,
and click submit!
It’s that simple!
Blessings!
Kaye Ann
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
the rainbarrel bandit {and a link to a few great posts}
really??
Mom said it best.
:)
Read here...
But we are really OK.
God is good and we are laughing~
Kaye
Mom said it best.
:)
Read here...
But we are really OK.
God is good and we are laughing~
Kaye
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Do Everything
Love this new song by Steven Curtis Chapman.
“Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you…”
We drove a ways one day and while we were heading home, this song came on the radio.
Well, of course we all started singing along as soon as we picked up tune, and it has become my favorite song (so far) for the summer.
But I can’t find a video or download of the song to share with you.
So instead, until the album comes out on August 9th, we just have to read the lyrics.
:)
Enjoy!
Kaye
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Blessings…
counting todays and yesterdays and last weeks blessings
#409- 431
gardening with Mamo
the garden center
walking the aisles and smelling the plants
R and M riding the mowers
old prom pictures all lined up on the pharmacy counter
a lady on the phone telling me I had a nice voice
thunderstorms
tornado missing our old house by 1 mile
boy and girls in mucking boots
this new adventure I started- come take a look!
mud puddles in farm fields
friends with us in the woods
‘shopping’ and laughing at prices and styles with Hannah
ice cream sundaes
gardens underwater
6 inches of rain in 2 hours
barefoot through the squelchy ground
these clouds here!
trees blossoming in the parking lot
the strawberry planter pot
Mamo’s bleeding hearts in bloom
our gardens coming together
Blessings!
Kaye
Friday, May 20, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The Power of Words
The Power of Words video has come through my inbox for the first time, and I LOVE IT.
Care to watch?
click here…Words have the ability to either build up, encourage, help, and strengthen, or tear down, take apart, and ruin.
This video was a poignant reminder to me that Christ calls us to only speak and use words that are “helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.”
which is exactly what this video shows.
A girl who takes the time to use words to build another up and benefit those who can read them.
please take the 2 minutes to watch this.
It is amazing.
Kaye
the “Top Hat Society”
It started last fall when me and R would stay at home while the other two went to class with Mom as the chauffeur.
First, it was the band, then the transportation.
Well, no one came to our auditions this last round, so we decided to take another approach and start a club,
The Top Hat Society.
You know, like the Red Hat Ladies?
We decided that the official members would start with a few of our closest friends.
Mr. Topham Hat himself… arriving in his airplane.
Black-and-White Cow looking very dapper in his hat…
Brown Bull arriving as well, with his hat precariously balanced between his horns…
I was named the official “Crazy Big Sister Photographer”.
We started with some introductions…
Shaking hands and exchanging names.
Then we moved on to the serious business of discussing who else would be invited to join our Top Hat Society.
It was decided that Buzz Lightyear Lego Man should also be invited. Mr. President ran upstairs to get him and let him try on his new hat.
however, we soon found the Buzz couldn’t be admit to the Society. His head was too small to fit into the Top Hat.
Soon we had grown tired of all the hat trying ons and requested that we adjourn for the most important part of the day-
lunch.
Until next time then!
Cheerio and good day to you!
Sincerely,
Crazy Big Sister Photographer and Mr. President
of the newly formed Top Hat Society
Monday, May 16, 2011
My Own Personality
“I am not, in my natural state, nearly so much of a person I like to believe: most of what I call ‘me’ can be very easily explained. It is when I turn to Christ, when I give myself up to His Personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”
From Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
counting blessings of being me in Christ…
school over on the college front
mailed off books
finals finished
deep breaths and prayers
green everywhere
work!! in an economy where many are searching for work that they enjoy, I feel so blessed to have found a job I love!
sneezing at all the green everywhere :) and Claritin to help
khaki pants
new bank account and checks with my name on it
my messy desk
my favorite big NWC sweatshirt in the morning
windows wide open
blessings on this beautiful Monday!
Kaye
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