Ever wish you could help someone with adoption?

Here's your chance! There are some of you that may call people that adopt amazing, special, wonderful or any number of other adjectives. We call ourselves called by God and very blessed. Maybe you are not called to adopt but we are all called as Christians in James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

A blog that I follow has an amazing post today about just that...bringing these children to their forever families. And how we can help. You can read it HERE . The Vaughan family who is very precious to our family just brought home another new treasure by the name of Daniel. You can read about their journey to Daniel HERE and they have great give-a-way going on HERE. You can join the give-a-way by making a PayPal gift towards the adoption of Daniel to help them complete their adoption. We will be throwing a Baby Shower for Shauna but we will be showering them with donations please feel free to link up to PayPal and let's hit that $10,000 mark!

Prayer Request

Please pray for this family as they head to court tomorrow to hopefully finalize their adoption.

Blessings

So this weekend I got to spend time with the Vaughan 5 while Shauna and Justin were on their way home from the Together for Adoption conference in Texas. And then they blessed the kids and I with these treasures! Anyone who knows me ..knows I love Christmas and love love ornaments! And have you ever seen such big jelly beans? The were a hit with the kids! Thank you Vaughan's! We love you!!

Birthday Girl

Ten years and three weeks ago we were blessed to have had an incredible woman walk into our lives. She was 37 weeks pregnant and wanting to give her baby up for adoption. We spent time together and she chose Jeff and & to be the proud parents of her baby to come.

On Friday July 2, 1999 at 4:24 pm we welcomed Grace Rae Chrisman into our family. After praying, wishing and hoping for 13 years to have another child we finally did! There are no words to describe how we felt. We had just months before had given up trying to adopt and said if the Lord wants up to be parents again..it will happen. I cannot tell you how many people thought we were nuts..but with the Lord all things are possible!

At the hospital
Daddy's Girl
Sister's
I know as parents we all say it..but it's amazing how time has just flown by. I remember this day ten years ago has if it just happened today. Grace is amazing, loving, caring, kind, generous little girl. She loves Jesus with all her heart and she is an amazing prayer warrior! She does not stop praying about a prayer request until the need is met. I just love that about her. So..HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRACE may you love every minute of being the big 10! I LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK!

Side note..Grace and Jeffrey share the same birth mother. A woman who will always have a place in my prayers and heart.