SWAGGER WAGON

OH my gosh....this is hilarious!!

See little Anastasia below?  Our family is planning to adopt her!  God is so good!  She just turned 5 years old and we are praying that we can rescue her before she is transferred to an institution in Eastern Europe.  You can follow our new adoption blog at  Saving Anastasia .  Come by and visit!

Happy Birthday Anastasia

This sweet, sweet girl turns 5 years old today.

There will be no party for her or anyone celebrating her birth.

Anastasia lives in an orphanage in Eastern Europe

where children with disabilities are hidden away

from society at birth or shortly after.

It is my hopes and dreams that you never

spend another birthday alone after your

fifth birthday Anastasia.  I pray that by this time

next year you are loved by a family who

accepts you for who you are no matter your disability.

Hold tight Anastasia, God will not leave you as an orphan.

Your forever family will hopefully scoop you up soon and

you will never know your days as an orphan anymore.

May God bless you today and always Anastasia!

Happy Birthday beautiful Princess!!

Oh Happy Day!!!

If this song doesn't make you want to get up and dance, well...... do it anyway!!! Oh how I love it!!

World Down syndrome day 2010

World DS day has come and gone, but I came across this video last night and I just had to share!! It is beautiful and made me cry... so beware!! Hope you love it too!

Easter

I've been MIA....so much to do, lot's on my mind.  Big, big decisions going on around at the Williams house!!  I will just go ahead and flog you with some Easter pics, and Mason's birthday.  Yes, Mason turned 9 years old on March 9.  Where has the time gone???

hmmmmm, wonder what that egg dye tastes like??

The kid on the left has never dyed Easter eggs!!!!

See sometimes having Down syndrome has it's perks ya know!!

(they give you a ticket for a stuffed rabbit, even though

you didn't even get one bean bag in the hole)

Do I know you???  I think we have met!

POOR rabbit...never saw it coming!!!!!

See all of the candy eggs on the floor?  Between Reeces's pieces and jelly beans,

Howard (our dog) had a grand ol' Easter!!  Ashlyn thought it was comical to dump all of the candy

out of the plastic eggs onto the floor.  Howard looked like he was a Hippo in the game

"Hungry, Hungry Hippos".

LOL.... he was eating that candy up as fast as he could!!

This is my Chocolate face....

Yummy, coconut Easter cake

Crazy cousins at it again!! Don't they look thrilled??

Our neice Molly celebrated her 2nd birthday last week.  Molly loves Elmo so I put my newly cake decorating skills to use!!  Here is the outcome!  Yes it is a little lop sided (is that a word?) but I just need to keep on practicing.  I really enjoyed making it.  I found a Sesame Street coloring book and they had just the right size of a Elmo head shot.  I cut it out, layed it on the cake and trace around it with a toothpick.  It was fairly easy being that there wasn't a lot of detail to the picture. It turned out fairly decent I guess.  All that matters is that Molly loved it!!

Howards big adventure

It was snowing like crazy here today.  On a typical snowy day we cannot get Mr. Goody Two Shoes to go outside and take a leak care of his business.  The last snow we had, Spenser had to go and clear a place in the yard just so Mr. PIcky would have a spot to go to.  Well today Howard became adventerous in the snow and decided, "hey  I like this stuff".  We usually take him out on a leash because he is a "runner".  Yep he likes to chase cars and go next door and visit his sugar mama "Jasmine".  I thought I would give ol' Howard a chance to explore today and see if he would hopefully begin to like this white "stuff" that we have been having waaay too much of. 

Here he is checking things out.....

Then the little turkey takes off into the woods...

can you spot him??

So Mason goes after him....

Ashlyn is giving instructions from kitchen window...

He's over there in the woods...don't you see him Mason?

If you look really hard you can see Mason and Howard running back home...

Here comes the little turkey!!

YIKES it's cold out here!!! We won't be letting Howard run free too much-

he is hard to track down!!

Thank you dear Heavenly Father!

I am writing this to hopefully educate others and prevent a house fire that could be waiting to happen.



Tuesday night as I was lying in bed and saying my prayers I started asking the Lord to protect our home and protect my family while in our home. Huh? The following day after I had prayed that prayer I was getting ready to go and eat lunch with Mike. On this morning I used the curling iron only when fixing my hair, unplugged it and went downstairs. I took Howard (our dog) outside for a quick tinkle and came back inside. As I walked in the dining room to grab my jacket I heard a noise from upstairs like something was running. I was the only one at home (besides Mike who was downstairs who had just come in and was waiting on me) so I ran upstairs to check it out. I walked into the bathroom to find the hairdryer running!! I hadn’t even used the hairdryer, yet it was running and had a smoky/burning smell to it. I tried to cut it off but the button wouldn’t budge!!! I ended up pulling it out of the socket in order to get the crazy thing to cut off!! So I am thinking that if we had left a minute or two earlier I am positive we would have had a house fire in no time at all.

So, my message to you is ALWAYS unplug your hairdryer when you are finished using it!! I am so guilty of leaving the hair dryer plugged up and only unplugging the curling iron. In fact, I never unplugged the hair dryer before now. I told my sister-in-law who is a hair dresser about what happened. She said that they learned in cosmetology school to ALWAYS unplug the hairdryer because there are two elements in a hair dryer that can heat up if left plugged in, even though it is not on. She said that they were taught that a hairdryer could heat up and catch fire, NOT that they would start running (like ours did) and catch fire. So this was a pretty scary ordeal for me, to say the least. Every time I thought about it I would get sick to my stomach for a couple of days afterwards, thinking “WHAT IF?” Needless to say I have been thanking my sweet Lord every day that the outcome of the situation was positive. There is no doubt in my mind that we would have had a house fire that day if I had not heard the hair dryer running or even left a minute or two earlier. Thank you Lord!

For my dear friend.....

I have a dear friend of mine who is going through a very hard time in her life.  She may as well have a dagger in her heart.  I feel so helpless and feel that the only thing I can do is to pray for her and support her.  I heard this song this morning and it made me think of her.  I can't say that I know what she's going through (that is a line in the song) but the rest of the lyrics are true!  Love you girlfriend and just know that you ARE going to be okay!!