(Backyard in summer 2011)
Sleep in Back Yard
Go Swimming (as a family)
Pick Strawberries
Go to Beach
Do Fireworks
Go to Fair
Pick Blueberries
Go to Water Park (local park with fountain)
Go on a Boat?
Go Fishing
Go Camping
Play in sprinklers
What are some things on your summer bucket list? Especially those that aren’t vacations.
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DON’T FORGET!
We’re honored to be a part of this small effort to make a real difference! Please read below… click on the link/picture below and vote as much as possible until June 18th!
(From http://onestepclosertohome.blogspot.com/2012/06/racing-for-orphans-with-down-syndrome.html)
My family and I have loved being able to work on behalf of the children on Reece’s Rainbow since finding this great organization. It’s for this reason that I had a hard time sleeping because of the excitement after hearing about this announcement!
Two months ago, Ironman announced a contest called Kona Inspired. How it works is they have given the general public an opportunity to submit a 90 second video based around the theme, “Anything is Possible”. Winners receive a spot to race in the Ironman World Championship in October, but most importantly, they will race as a media athlete and have the opportunity to share their story on NBC’s nationally televised broadcast of the championship this year! THIS COULD BE OUR OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THESE PRECIOUS CHILDREN’S STORY WITH THE WORLD!!!
After reading Ironman’s press release we immediately went to work. This is an opportunity to help these children in a way that I never imagined possible! The video came together with the help of many wonderful people and we submitted it. 105 videos were submitted. After over a month long preliminary public voting, we just received word that we are one of the top 15 videos and will compete in the final round of voting June 4 – June 18!!!
Please take a moment to WATCH, VOTE, and SHARE our video as much as possible throughout the day from your home computer, work computer, laptop, phone, etc! We need to be in the top 2 videos at the end of the day on June 18.
Thank you for your time and willingness to make the dream of these orphans of finding their forever family a reality!
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Before
During...
After. Darker brown, lighter white... no more chips or peeling.
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Videos still uploading… to come tomorrow perhaps!
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Brian: He is amazing as always. He’ll turn 30 in January. He is in need of a haircut. There are never enough hours left in the day when he gets home from work… or is it that our energy runs out before the hours? Work is going well and he is saving up hours to take some time off this fall when Carolyn is born.
Rachel (and Carolyn): Seems like my tummy is really growing now! Hello waddle and interesting sleep habits. 🙂 I am pressing in to doing things with the kids and really investing in their lives more. It’s easier to do the bare minimum and focus on the projects I want to get done… but they are my most valuable asset and I don’t want to miss out. Them having fevers has been good for getting lots of snuggles. I tell ya though – I am really looking forward to strawberries. And I hope I don’t get the fever they all have. My hair is ready for a trim.
Anna: I think we have our very, very first loose tooth of my child-rearing years! (she turned five last month) Anna is working and working away at her much abused right front tooth and I think that it actually is a little loose! Times are a changin’. Poor girl was so disappointed to miss her swimming lesson yesterday. Hopefully she’ll be 100% well come next Monday. She asks me often when it’s time for strawberries. Her hair is so long and beautiful…
Maggie: My little stomper has had a fever since last Saturday… making this day six. Her fever broke once last night and it’s lower this morning than it’s been in quite awhile. She’s still hardly eating, which is hard to watch when they weigh less than 25 pounds, but she really is doing ok. She and Anna are singing together right now – a song they’re both making up at the same time. Adorable! Things I’ve heard from her a lot this last week, “Mommy, I want a hug.” “Mommy, can you hold me?” and “Mommy, I want to ‘nuggle.” (she doesn’t say her “s” right now) Her hair is beginning to grow… her morning hair is really stupendous.
Jordan: I realized I’ve been allowing Jordan to slip off my radar this last month or two… he is not a demanding little boy. So, I’m taking time to play with him more and more the last few days since realizing that. He is getting heavier and probably taller too. He LOVES to eat and eat and eat grass when he’s in the back yard. Dirt is another favorite, but I discourage that. If he self-feeds himself so well with these two things, I think we’ve got a window into teaching him to eat other solids. hehe He got a fever yesterday, so his tubes were rescheduled for next Thursday. Got the chance to rock him, uncontested for almost 20 minutes yesterday. That was sweet. 😀 (His hair is nearing a haircut)
Carolyn: 25 weeks! She is a wiggly, floppy fish who kept Jordan from falling asleep as he laid on my lap in a feverish half-doze yesterday. Will be very exciting to meet her this fall! And I strongly suspect she is somewhere between bald and almost bald.
Maggie - less than a day old
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