This is my son Jensen and his cute sister Faith. He is working on his Eagle Scout. We need help. He is organizing a local walk to raise funds and awareness for the nonprofit group International China Concern. They provided much needed services for the abandoned and disabled children in China. They are amazing! It is a small Christian based group that accomplishes so much with what little resources they have. Please post this to your blogs, and spread the word. Our walk is one of sixteen Nationally. The goal is to raise $35,000 this year. We need walkers and sponsors. So if you don't live close to a walk, you can still support by donating to a walker,team or family.
Time is running out...our walk is September 22nd, 2012
I have been so lazy about bringing a camera, I am burned out on lugging that huge thing everywhere. I still feel obligated to keep my journal/blog updated, so I am quickly recaping. Last day of school June 20th YEA! Camping and boating for 7 days at Sunrise June 24th - 30th.
We had mostly beautiful weather, and Jeff and I learned how to Wake Surf :)
(This is not us by the way...sure you figured that out on your own...just an example I found)
Kylee and Jensen stayed home and worked, so we had just 4 of us. One rainy day we went bowling with two other families, Lewis's and Child's. Faith and Gage were inseperable the entire week. Campground had grouchy old people running it, and they told Faith she couldn't ride her Barbie car...so we went and bought her a little bike as an early birthday present. She loved it.
4th of July week was busy. Breakfast at the church with the firefighters, then party at the Hunsaker's with swimming and BBQ and fireworks. Faith's 5th birthday party Saturday July 7th...Rainbow Unicorn Party ~ was a big hit and all the kids had so much fun. Thanks mom and grandma for the darling unicorns ~ kids LOVED them! Oh and Jeff had fun with the pinata legs :)
Camping/boating again July 9th ~ 12th at Sunlakes.(favorite campground) Dallin brought a friend Bennett, Kylee,Dallin, and Faith came also. Jensen again stayed home to work. 110 degree weather, and beautiful. We all got very tan. Sad day when Jeff ran into a submerged rock in the lake and did about 3500.00 worth of damage. We were fortunate it didn't sink and no one was hurt. Made the best of the vacation and swam and played in the water most of the days. The nights we stayed busy going to local towns. Grand Coulee Dam light show, Spiderman movie in Ephrata, and a Mexican restaurant for Faith's actual birthday. They startled her when they put the hat on her and started singing. Great little get away even with no boat.
July 18th ~ 21st Tucker's sister's wedding. I made the cake, and we got to go with family to her endowments, then the marriage. It was so fun. Reception was also so fun. We helped quite a bit and enjoyed seeing the family so happy.
July 22nd had Lind's over for dinner they are moving to Utah, said goodbye. Love that family but happy we will see them when we visit.
July 23rd ~ Group FHE at our house to distribute flyers for Jensen's eagle project. www.walkthewall.org had root beer floats after.
July 27th leaving for Utah to visit family and take Jensen to EFY in Provo.
Welcome to our little piece of the world wide web! A little about us ~ I am Dawn,and my husband is Jeff. We have five children. When our youngest was 10 we prayed to see if our family was complete, we were prompted to adopt.
(How grateful we are that we listened to that prompting) We returned from China in January 2010 with our daughter FAITH who is now 5 years old. This is our blog "Faith in Every Footstep." Now that we are home, I use this blog to record our family adventures and daily school pictures of our little peanut! Enjoy~
Faith's Chinese name is SiSi. The character Si means "to think, consider"
Born not from our flesh but born in our hearts you were longed for,wanted and loved from the start!
About Faith Hengsi
Yang Hengsi was found by local poeple at the gate of the orphanage of Hengyang City on July 13th 2007. She was estimated to be about 5 days old. She was diagnosed with hyperthermia and hospitalized. (In July, when she was found, the temperatures reach 105 degrees.) We believe she was left out in the heat for an extended period of time. Local police did a lot of searching but failed to find her birth parents, as nobody claimed her, she was sent to be raised in the orphanage at 24:00 hours being July 14th.
In China she had been diagnosed with hydrocephalus from a CT scan. This diagnosis was inaccurate; we know this because of the MRI she recently had here in the states. She does have a birth defect with her brain tissue called Agenesis of the Corpus collossum.
7 in heaven, #sprinklejoyforivy
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Saturday! Be Joy!!! Ivy will turn 7 in Heaven, lets Sprinkle Joy for Ivy!
At 7am our family will head to Ivys home church to clean fo...
Why Yes, we are still here!!
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I have sat down to write this post so many times over the last 6
months....that's right...6 MONTHS! Every time I sit down to write it, I
feel overwhelmed ...
New Year, new chapter...
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Happy New Year everyone!! Gung Hay Fat Choy!! I haven't been on here in
forever, but I assume I will be on here a lot more in the next few months
as we sta...
12 year old girl, SWEET!
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Please take a look at this beautiful girl from June's SWI! She has spina
bifida and uses a wheelchair. Look at her beautiful smile! She is ready for
a f...
First Night Home!
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The Infamous brown envelopes that you can not open or they will be null and
void and your child will not be able to come into the US! (or something
like th...
Our guitar hero
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Isaac LOVES music and was singing all the time in China when we first got
him. That continued once we were back in Canada and he always wanted to
play Ell...
Zai Jian from China!
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Well, here we sit. Suitcases packed, waiting for 4:30 to roll around so we
can get on the bus and head for the airport. Our flight leaves Guangzhou ...
Heng Yang City
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We had Donovan for about 3 days when the opportunity to go and visit the
orphanage had come up. We were not all able to go unfortunately so Kendall
went on...
Hengyang city has 805,000 residents and is just over 2 hours south of Changsha by road. Hengyang was traditionally known as the ‘goose city’ because of the number of geese that migrated through it. It’s also the leading transportation centre of Hunan, linking water, rail and highway routes.
Adoption Timeline:
Mailed 1st application to agency: 02/09 Changed agencies: 04/24/09 Mailed 2nd application to adoption agency: 04/24/2009 Application accepted from agency: 04/27/2009 Mailed Homestudy paperwork : 04/30/2009 Emailed LOI : 05/01/2009 1st Homestudy: 05/11/09 2nd Homestudy: 05/11/09 PA: 05/13/09 3rd Homestudy: 05/28/09 4th Homestudy: 05/28/09 Homestudy mailed to agency 06/05/09 I-800A mailed to USCIS 06/08/2009 Fingerprinting done 07/13/09 I-797C received 07/22/09 DTC!!! wired 08/03/09 LID 08/12/09 LOA 09/30/09!!!!!! I800 approved 10/23/09 NVC cabled paperwork to consulate 10/31/09 Article 5 11/17/09 (that was a hard wait!) TA 12/07/2009 Travel Dates 12/30/09-01/15/10