HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Today is our BEAUTIFUL little girls Birthday and in that honor we are hosting a Kickball Tournament to celabrate but more important to raise money to get her and her little brother home!!!!! I pray someone is giving her a big birthday huge for me today!!! It brings me comfort to know that by next year she will be celabrateing her birthdday with a family that loves her!

Ups and Downs

This last week has been full of ups and downs, doubts and in the end I saw Gods faithfulness!I don't even know where to start... I think I'll start at the end! I learned a few very good lessons; 1. We serve a VERY BIG GOD, who can make anything possible when we feel like there is no possibility! 2. Sometimes the people that are not related to you are the closest family you have! 3. I am done putting my faith in my self from now on my faith is in Christ! I'm sure I learned more lessons than that but those were the top three!
Fred, Tanya and I sent out letters to different companies and local teams to get donations for our Kickball Tournament, we got a pretty good response but I thought we would have gotten more of a turn out. While I was bummin about that I came home to a mail box full of letters and free tickets! What is so amazing about the tickets we did get? The companies that helped us out were places that stated on their web site that they only help out non-profit organizations, not individuals! We got tickets to the Milwaukee Bucks, the Wave, the Admirals, the Mil. Co. Zoo, the Mil. Co. Museum, and the Betty Brinn Museum. It is so amazing to me, with every turn on this journey I can see God's hand leading the way!
Now that I got all these baskets for the tournament I started freakin about the teams and people to come and bid on these baskets I worked so hard to put together. (Again taking my eyes off of God and focusing on the waves raging all around me.)I invited people on facebook and it felt like nobody was coming, I had the same feeling before our first rummage and we did great, so why am I having such a hard time putting my faith in God now? Because I have let the world and the craziness that is my life get in the way of my walk with Christ. When I wen back to his Word God blessed me with some phone calls from people that can't wait to come out and help in way they can! We also had some more team that are interested in playing witch I'm very excited about because it was getting a little scary there for a minute!!!
I'm sure there are other details that added to my frustration this week but the straw that broke the camels back was that; I just don't understand how some people can be so completely self absorbed that they can't take time out of their schedule to be there for their ONLY sibling when that sibling needs their family's support the most. I come from a family that no matter what if you are in need they are there even if you are not on the best of term nothing is stronger than family... or so I though, apparently this is NOT the case in other families! PRAISE God for the Church family he has provided and the wonderful family that He has given ME!!!!!!

Life is CRAZY!!!

The last few weeks have been SOOO crazy! There is just so much going on, I pray that God keeps me focused on him through out this journey. I feel like the rocky water is yet to come. There is so much going on around me I feel like it is so easy to doubt God and take my eyes off of him!!! Please be praying for our Kickball Tournament... I have a secret "I'm very nerves it's not going to work the way I planned, I pray people show up!!!" I have to trust God, easier said than done!

Fred and I are going for our federal fingerprints Tuesday!!!! And we sent our last pack of papers to Madison!!!! I would love to have everything "paper work wise" done before summer camp starts, camp takes up so much of my time and more important my energy! It would be nice to just have to wait through camp! Either way I'm gonna praise God through it all!!!