Holiday photos...

Holiday photos...

First Sunday of Advent--Hope

Community Group

Community Group was at our house Friday night.  Ellie bonded well and was so relaxed with some of our Afghan friends...

Pics from Earlier in the Year 2012

Although these pics are from April 2012, I just found them on Kendra's FB wall...

The Global Orphan Crisis

We received a copy of the book "The Global Orphan Crisis" this week by author Diane Elliot who was gracious enough to include Ellie's picture and story in the book! 

You can visit Diane's blog at:  http://www.globalorphancrisis.com/?page_id=419

Please buy a copy of this informative and inspirational book!

You can find it at:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Global-Orphan-Crisis-Solution/dp/0802409547

Halloween party 2012

 Not sure if this is a tired Tigger, or a Tigger about to sneeze, or just caught between smiles

Tigger's lesser-known brother Will was an out-of-work wizard willing to do magic for food

                             FrankenNerd, Indiana Jones, and Tigger--a Happy Family!

Tigger's father started as FrankenNerd but he couldn't eat through the mask, so he just went for "Scott Nerd"

Another Milestone!

Ellie started drinking through a straw this week!!!

And..ANOTHER one...

About a week after her first top tooth, she lost the one next to it...!

Another Missing Tooth

        First TOP tooth missing--she lost a couple on the bottom some months ago

Camp Smile JOURNAL

Camp Smile

This past week Ellie spent 4 nights and 4 1/2 days at Camp Smile (http://www.campsmilemobile.org) in Mobile, AL.  She seems to have really loved it, and cried when we put her in the car to take her away from constant loving attention from the WONDERFUL and AMAZING staff there (especially her beautiful and loving counselor Pranaya--pictured immediately below with Ellie on the first day).



On the last day there was a Talent Show.  One of the young men name Michael Rachad (a college graduate) with what appeared to be severe CP, confined to a wheelchair, hardly able to speak, wrote a song which was played on a CD (sung by someone else) while he sat on stage.  WOW!  Powerful!  It was called "I Asked God".  I am not sure if there was a dry eye in the place.                       

                                                    Cecy Lowell--Camp Director                               

                                                        The Sioux Girls group