Birthday!

Our oldest turned 17 years-old today.  Totally cliche but I cannot believe how fast time has gone by.  I can remember when Zach was 13 and beginning school sports, I would pick him up from practices and see the high school boys playing and I would think “I am not ready to have one of [...]

Hi Lo Thursday – 3/26/09

This post is part of “Hi/Lo Thursday” on the Riggs Family Blog. Check out their blog to read everyone else’s “Hi/Lo” posts and get your link on their site. Hi’s On the adoption front our paperwork in currently on it’s way to Haiti!!!!!  Now we wait. Since I missed last weeks Hi’s and Lo’s I [...]

Prayer Needed

Your prayers are needed. Please hop over to this blog if you haven’t already and pray for Stellan and his family. Read her latest post, it is an amazing testimony of faith. At the same time it raised some questions in my mind about prayer and God’s plan for us. Thanks Praying them home, Julie

My Men Are Bald!!!!!!!!

Thankfully it was for a good cause.  St. Baldrick’s check it out! Have a Blessed Day!!! Julie

Little Piggies

 I thought I would let you all in on a really cool fundraising effort that is being done on behalf of our families adoption efforts.  A close family friend found an idea online where someone put baby bottles in different businesses to raise money for an infant adoption.  Danielle took this idea and ran with [...]

Big Updates!

So many things to say.  First, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to everyone that helped out and attended our soup luncheon Sunday. With over 100 people counted it was a HUGE success.  It felt great to be able to share our passion for Haiti and its’ people with so many generous souls. The Purses [...]

Hi/Lo Thursday (3/12/09)

This post is part of “Hi/Lo Thursday” on the Riggs Family Blog. Check out their blog to read everyone else’s “Hi/Lo” posts and get your link on their site. Hi’s We are so blessed, there are so many hi’s to list, these are the top three: Zachary made the Varsity Lacrosse team at CNS We [...]

New Report!

Today was a great day. We received our first Granny Bin report on the boys. I can’t stop flipping through the “photo book”. For those of you that don’t know, Granny Bin is a women who runs a ministry in Haiti. She and her niece, I believe, go to several of the orphanages each month [...]

Home Study – Check!

Just a quick PRAISE!!!!  Our home study is done!  This is HUGE step. We have been waiting for some fingerprinting errors to be rectified and finally we are done!!!  Tomorrow will be a day of running around getting things notarized at different levels and then we can send it off to LBB.  It’s easy to give [...]

Hi Lo Thursday 3/5/09

This post is part of “Hi/Lo Thursday” on the Riggs Family Blog. Check out their blog to read everyone else’s “Hi/Lo” posts and get your link on their site.   Hi’s- Absolutely the weekend spent with my Man!!  God is good! We also celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary at Luigi’s with our kids.  We laughed [...]