Well we were approved for the fundraiser both hands with Lifesong for Orphans, and we are really excited about this. So now we have to get to work on this project. It is called both hands because it says one hand for the orphan and one for the widow, sure you can guess this is right out of the bible:
"Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world."
So now we get 10 people who will commit to do two things:
1. Send out sponsorship letters.
2. Work one day on a widow's home.
So the way this works is when we get the ten people who are willing to work on a widow's home we pick a day and then send out letters as kind of a work-a-thon, people sponsor the work by sending donations. The cool thing is they send them directly to Lifesong, so they get a tax deduction and lifesong deals with all the finances...then in the end we receive funds toward our adoption...so please
pray with us that we can gather 10 people to help us take on this project!
Check out their website
http://www.lifesongfororphans.org/
Thursday, October 20, 2011
NC State Fair
Well the State Fair is going on right now, which means a lot of things for our family. Primarily it means Travis has a little more work than usual as the Chaplain of the fair, but also a lot of fun things
that go along with it. For instance we are able to go as a family, which is a lot of fun, we usually go on Senior Citizen day as it is less crowded and get there early to ensure that...
Our schedule is :
1. Go by Campers on Mission-this is one of the arms of the fair that serves the workers of the fair with free food, clothing, haircuts, blood pressure and the good news of Jesus everyday.
2. Go by and see all the animals.
3. Ride on the rides.
4. Eat our snack lunch if you want to call it that:) (some of its contents are kettle corn, fried candy bar, caramel apple, cotton candy)-so not our healthiest lunch-but apples are good for you:)
5. Go home for naps
that go along with it. For instance we are able to go as a family, which is a lot of fun, we usually go on Senior Citizen day as it is less crowded and get there early to ensure that...
Our schedule is :
1. Go by Campers on Mission-this is one of the arms of the fair that serves the workers of the fair with free food, clothing, haircuts, blood pressure and the good news of Jesus everyday.
2. Go by and see all the animals.
3. Ride on the rides.
4. Eat our snack lunch if you want to call it that:) (some of its contents are kettle corn, fried candy bar, caramel apple, cotton candy)-so not our healthiest lunch-but apples are good for you:)
5. Go home for naps
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| Isaiah, Anna, Sammy at PBS Booth with Cat in the Hat |
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| Kids in a hummer at the Army Reserves area, checking out where they shoot from. |
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| Anna and Sammy(barely seen) on hot air balloon ride |
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| Sammy on horse, this was his favorite but he LOVED all the rides. |
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| Anna on carousel. |
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| Look closely Sammy riding in back of the green jeep! |
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Adoption Update and Life
Well this was a really eventful week for us, we mailed our dossier off on Monday to our agency in Tennessee, this is the packet of paperwork that they will send to China for them to approve us for adoption and refer us to our little girl, so this is very exciting. This means now that the only paperwork we are working on are grant and fund raising applications, so while this is still paperwork the logistical part of our adoption paperwork is complete for now. Breathe, more to come we are sure. We also mailed off a grant application for Lifesong for Orphan which does a ministry to widows and orphans, so we look forward to seeing if we get approved for this program and what God will provide through it. So we are praying for our little girl wherever she is and for all that is needed on our end to bring her home.
Then on Thursday we celebrated our 10th anniversary, was kind of low key this year, dinner and a movie and that is what we need this year, so we are thankful to God for 10 wonderful years of marriage. It has flown by so fast, can't wait to see what the next 10 hold!
Then on Thursday we celebrated our 10th anniversary, was kind of low key this year, dinner and a movie and that is what we need this year, so we are thankful to God for 10 wonderful years of marriage. It has flown by so fast, can't wait to see what the next 10 hold!
Anna started school
Well this is late too, what can I say life has been a little more hectic than even the usual and I couldn't find the cord for our camera until tonight, so wanted to add pictures as well...So Anna started Oak City Academy in August and loves it. She loves going to school everyday and other than being a little more tired and whiny when she gets home it is going well. Her class has about 11 students and she says they are all her friends. She loves to be a helper and to do her works. We do miss her during the day, but homeschool is going really well this year with the boys so that is a blessing. Enjoy the pics below of the first day and then some of Anna's soccer as well, she is doing better at going after the ball this year.
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| Breakfast before first day of school! |
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| Getting ready to go in to class. |
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| Greeted with a hug, by faithful friend Charissa! |
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| Putting her pink-luggage pull bag down, that she had to have:) |
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| The Classroom, amazing! |
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| Pick up at the end of first day, hugging with some friends. |
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| Close up of first tooth lost! |
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| Anna in soccer, she is actually dribbling the ball here, you go girl! |
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| Just so you can see her face! |
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Our kids are growing up
I know we all hear so often, enjoy your children while their little, they grow up so fast, Yes they do!!
Things are that are currently making me more aware of this, in no particular order:
1. Anna lost her first tooth today, our baby girl is growing up.
2. She is also moving up in the classes at church, she will no longer be in Ms. Nicole's class, this makes me very sad, I feel like she's been there forever, she is too little to be in the 5-7 year old class even if she is five:)
3. And yes she is starting school, not homeschool she has been doing that for awhile she is going to go to kindergarten at OCA, a school here in downtown that some members of our church are starting. She starts next week, will send pictures of this. We have gotten some school supplies, how fun!
**You may be thinking what are we doing putting Anna in school and not the boys, who knows:))
Seriously, this school is new so the boys weren't an option, they start at pre-K and K and add a grade a year. We thought this would be a good year to try this with Anna to not add anything more to our plate with schooling, and give her a wonderful learning opportunity. As always we take all their education one year at a time, so that's the story for this year.
4. Sammy is potty-training:) Day one today, I'm exhausted! I think he can pretty much make pee come at any moment, we are full force into underwear except naptime of course, and break time for everyone else in the house. Wow this may be the first time in 8 years that we will not have a child in diapers(again except bedtime, still have some bedwetters:)
5. If you think we will save $ by not buying diapers, think again. I've always been told when your boys get older they will double, triple your grocery budget, I'm sure that will be true one day. But I can see glimpses of this already. When we sit down for dinner with a nice GALLON pitcher of crystal light(trying to do less sugar), when everyone's glasses are poured there may be a little left in the pitcher, basically we can drink it in one sitting. When we eat waffles, gone are the days of one box, we eat two at one meal...and on and on it goes.
6. Micah is going to be in first grade, and his soccer team has moved up to where he now has games on saturdays too!
7. Isaiah is going into third grade, his soccer team now has a goalie, he will be taking a writing class for 3-5 graders this year from someone other than his parents, and he will try his hat at flag football something he has been wanting to do for over a year.
Well I'll stop there for tonight, have another day of potty training tomorrow!
Things are that are currently making me more aware of this, in no particular order:
1. Anna lost her first tooth today, our baby girl is growing up.
2. She is also moving up in the classes at church, she will no longer be in Ms. Nicole's class, this makes me very sad, I feel like she's been there forever, she is too little to be in the 5-7 year old class even if she is five:)
3. And yes she is starting school, not homeschool she has been doing that for awhile she is going to go to kindergarten at OCA, a school here in downtown that some members of our church are starting. She starts next week, will send pictures of this. We have gotten some school supplies, how fun!
**You may be thinking what are we doing putting Anna in school and not the boys, who knows:))
Seriously, this school is new so the boys weren't an option, they start at pre-K and K and add a grade a year. We thought this would be a good year to try this with Anna to not add anything more to our plate with schooling, and give her a wonderful learning opportunity. As always we take all their education one year at a time, so that's the story for this year.
4. Sammy is potty-training:) Day one today, I'm exhausted! I think he can pretty much make pee come at any moment, we are full force into underwear except naptime of course, and break time for everyone else in the house. Wow this may be the first time in 8 years that we will not have a child in diapers(again except bedtime, still have some bedwetters:)
5. If you think we will save $ by not buying diapers, think again. I've always been told when your boys get older they will double, triple your grocery budget, I'm sure that will be true one day. But I can see glimpses of this already. When we sit down for dinner with a nice GALLON pitcher of crystal light(trying to do less sugar), when everyone's glasses are poured there may be a little left in the pitcher, basically we can drink it in one sitting. When we eat waffles, gone are the days of one box, we eat two at one meal...and on and on it goes.
6. Micah is going to be in first grade, and his soccer team has moved up to where he now has games on saturdays too!
7. Isaiah is going into third grade, his soccer team now has a goalie, he will be taking a writing class for 3-5 graders this year from someone other than his parents, and he will try his hat at flag football something he has been wanting to do for over a year.
Well I'll stop there for tonight, have another day of potty training tomorrow!
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Adoption Update
Not sure we've ever officially posted much about our adoption, other than we are in the process and the sidebar that tells where we are. We are so busy with all that life has for us right now, that sometimes these thoughts take a back seat, but we do know there is a little girl out there who will one day be a Williams kid and that is exciting!! We did get approval from the US government and just had an AMAZING fund raiser given to us by our church family. It was such an overwhelming display of love and it came at just the right time to send off our dossier to our agency, so hopefully that will be in the mail soon! The dinner was a taco bar which was so yummy, there were games for the kids they bought tickets to play each game and then there was a silent auction of some amazing items that people made bids on and of course the highest bid won the item. I have to admit that I wanted to bid on a lot of the items myself, but realized that wouldn't be appropriate.
It was a HUGE success and we were so amazed, and it was a good reminder for us of why we are doing this. It was decorated with pictures from China and facts about China. So we are pressing on in the adoption and will keep you posted.
These pictures below are from our first trip to China to one of the homes there, this was the first tug at us:)
It was a HUGE success and we were so amazed, and it was a good reminder for us of why we are doing this. It was decorated with pictures from China and facts about China. So we are pressing on in the adoption and will keep you posted.
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| Had to add this picture, this was from the fundraiser,they also had a photo booth!! |
These pictures below are from our first trip to China to one of the homes there, this was the first tug at us:)
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