SPUD FARMERS: Looking Back

Thursday, January 1

Looking Back

Looking back on a year FULL of blessings...

Our first puppy, MADDIE MAY...the birth of our sweet friend, AVA KATE...Santa Ynez with RACHAEL and JUSTIN...EMMETT'S First Birthday...STACY and JEFF start dating...REECE'S RAINBOW...BAILEY'S first time snowboarding...Cooking Class with AUNT KAREN...AWANA's with the GUTIERREZ FAMILY...CROWN biblestudy...many visits from FRIENDS...COLEY gets pregnant!!!...Nicole and Brandon get married...LEE's concerts...Friday Donuts with PAPA...Committing to TATE and seeing his picture for the first time...Easter with BRIE and the GIRLS...a good TRACK season...seeing the COUSINS...witnessing baby MICAH's birth...MATT and MICHELLE's First Prom...LEGOLAND...BAILEY's first hike to TWO TREES...BUDDY is potty trained...visits from Grandma...The Leach Family moves :(...MAY birthday extravaganza...KAILEY graduates from High School...SUMMER CAMPS...BROOKLYN learns to ride a bike...STEPH visits...MOM and most of her friends turn 30...PEN PALS...Hanging out at the beach...Learning to fish...Lemonade stands...GARDENING...Blue Berry picking...school advice from CAROLYN...Uncle Fred Visits...LULU the fish dies...Co-op with KAMRYN...BROOKLYN lost her first tooth...KEEPERS...MILLER is born...Visit from the CRAIG Family...Long-distance school with GRACIE...Meeting ZOEY...CROSS COUNTRY...Math with HANNAH...AUNT JO saves the day!...UKRAINE or bust...meeting TATE...BUDDY becomes EVERY superhero...Happy Birthday PEYTON...TATE comes home- MERRY CHRISTMAS!

2 comments:

Cheryl said...: Sounds like your family had a really busy year1 That is a lot of things to remeber :) Happy New year!!
With love,
Sarah; Friday, January 02, 2009
Jeanne Oliver said...: You guys should really try to do more....; Sunday, January 04, 2009

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Why Adopt?

"In you the fatherless find mercy." (Hosea 14:4)

"You are the helpers of the fatherless." (Psalm 10:14)

"It is not the will of your Father that one of these little ones should perish." (Matthew 18:14)

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress." (James 1:27)

"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." (Luke 18:16)

"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you." (John 14:18)

"Whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me." (Matthew 18:5)

"And Jesus took the children in his arms, put his hands on them, and blessed them." (Mark 10:16)

"Remember those...who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering." (Hebrews 13:3)

"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us...let us not love with word or tongue, but with action and in truth." (I John 3:16-18)

"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in." (Matthew 25:35)

"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves...defend the rights of the needy." (Proverbs 31:8,9)

"He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me, declares the Lord." (Jeremiah 22:16)

Reece's Rainbow

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If finances aren't a way you can help, please look across their photos and say a prayer that each one will find their forever family soon. Reece's Rainbow is an International Down Syndrome Orphan Ministry which also advocates for orphans with other disabilities across the globe. Please "grab this button" and post it with a message to your own readers as well. It starts with ONE, but then grows exponentially. You never know, your own post may be one that finds a family for one of these precious children.

Thursday, January 1

Looking Back

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