Raising Arrows

Happy Birthday sweet child! You would be six today. This day use to be filled with many tears. A celebration hushed away by an absence and sadness. But in the last few years I've embraced this day. Truly began to celebrate with heart! And this year we will have cake! We will sing just as loud and as silly as we do for all of our other precious children. It's, of course, all done differently, but the short and absolutely perfect time we had together with you on this side of life still has it's ripple effects. You're story is still being told and how God used your tiny heart beat to change our path of life, it's awesome and can only be credited to our Lord and Savior! There's so much JOY in this day this year. We are fundraising. We are on our way to a land and a country that wasn't even on our radar and in our plans 6 years ago. Yet this life, God's way, it's so much more then anything we could have thought or planned. My dreams have been shatt...

Here we are in May!! Good grief! This last month brought on some fun new toys for us. Swingsets, sandboxes, bouncy horses, and new technology! Ha. We have some awesome new neighbors who were so gracious and gave us the outdoor toys they had in their backyard. That included a full metal swingset, a big plastic box like climbing things with slide, and a sandbox!!! We were speechless, I will say tho, you kids weren't quiet about!!! There was loads of laughs, screeches, and excitement - and still is, each time we go to play. So neighbors, if you are reading this, THANK YOU!! We are stoked to have new play equipment for the summer.  While we were enjoying the new and exciting playground outside, our laptop was struggling to keep us in the loop with fundraising. We were cut off from a video chat, and continually it would just shut off on me while I was working on letters and messages! Ugh. It finally got me one too many times. Thankfully, we had been looking and researching laptops for ...