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School Carnival Fun!

The school where I run the KIDS HOPE USA program had their carnival this weekend. The boy that I mentor moved to another school 3 weeks ago and so we invited him to join us since I hadn’t seen him for weeks. He was excited to see us, but also to see his friends. The Fort Worth Fire department came out and showed the kids the truck and let them try on their boots and hat.

Carnival Fun

Nadia saw this train and was completely single minded about going on a ride.

Carnival Fun

While they rode the train A got his hair spray painted.

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I convinced him to give up his “coolness” and get in the bounce house with Nadia since she didn’t want to go alone 🙂 And of course he had fun.

Carnival Fun

Afterwards we went to McDonald’s and Nadia was just being her super cute happy self. Here she is showing us how full her belly was.

Carnival Fun

Carnival Fun

Here she is playing with Mike a game that never gets old to a toddler. “Where is Nadia?”

Carnival Fun Carnival Fun

Here she was roaring like an animal and holding up her nugget.

Carnival Fun

 

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Girls Inc Honor

Today Girls Inc of Tarrant County gave Mike and I the Dorothy Henson Volunteer of the Year award. We thought it was an honor to be selected and they made a point of saying that they chose us because of our work to help children around the globe. Here we are with Susan the President of Girls Inc of Tarrant County.

Girls Inc Award

Here is the award. It’s a photo that Mike took that they use for their promotional materials and the girls signed the frame. I think it’s so CUTE!

Girls Inc Award

And here are some of the girls talking about the business that they formed for a contest. They won the contest and spent 6 days in NYC meeting with female executives from Goldman Sacs and other organizations to talk about business. I am going to do a future post soon with a link to their website because it’s really awesome.

Girls Inc Award

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The Cannon’s visit

We have been very busy around here, but we were able to squeeze in a visit to the zoo with Alan, Shawn and Alyssa last Saturday since they were in town. The weather was perfect and it was a really great day at the zoo. Shawn and Alan were our secret pals during the wait to adopt and each month of the exchange was so exciting to see what would arrive. Nadia uses the blanket they gave her every night in bed and the famous “taggie” who has traveled the world with us rides shot gun in the car seat with her each day.

Cannon Visit 4.09

Click on the link above to see all the photos (there are a lot).  Nadia was just coming off being sick for a week so she was very mellow at the beginning and just wanted to be held by Mike for the first part of the day.

Zoo - April 2009

Around the time that we saw the elephants she was doing better and we even managed to get some shots of the girls together 🙂

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Zoo - April 2009

We went over to where the dragon sculpture usually is and look what has taken it’s place.

Zoo - April 2009

A Kangaroo with a little Joey. Isn’t this one cute with them each holding a paw?

Zoo - April 2009

Nadia did this on Saturday and I snapped a photo after she asked Mike to do it. We had no idea what started that, but today she told me that she’s “looking through her camera”.  Hee hee.

Zoo - April 2009

Zoo - April 2009

We all had a great time and it was so fun to get the girls together again since they were about 9 and 10 months old the last time.

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He is Risen! Hallelujah!

1 Peter 3: 18

“For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.”

This day isn’t about bunnies and eggs, but the most wonderful thing ever done for mankind.  We wish you all a blessed Resurrection Day and we pray that you would have peace through the grace of Christ.