SUPPORT OUR ADOPTION

As you all know we are adopting a little girl or boy from Peru!
Along with this adoption comes a huge amount of fundraising.
The Lord has been incredible by bringing funds in quickly! Praise Adoni!

Recently, we learned of a company call Just Love. It is a coffee business that also supports adoptions! You purchase coffee or another product on our site that we have created in their site and part of the proceeds come to us for our adoption! The link to this site will remain on the right hand side of the page. You may visit our site by clicking on the flag. Or here is the web address: www.justlovecoffee.com/coleecasa

We hope that you will visit this site and make a purchase. Please feel free to pass it along to your trusted family and friends.

We have read that "it takes a village to adopt a child"! Thank you for being apart of our "village"!

Eggs for Thought

My life as an egg would be...........scrambled! :)

I'm in desperate need of order!

Slow news

Well our home study is about to be sent off! Hopefully within the next week or two. I have been saying that for the past month or two! haha. We found out yesterday that we do not have to have our home study sent to DHR, it will go straight to Immigration!

Also, this week we have been rejoicing with our friends J and T who are in country with their child. I'm not sure how long they will be gone. But you can check out their journey by clicking here: J and T

Our DiscipleNow was this past weekend. It was amazing. 5 of them gave their hearts to Christ!!!!!

Pictures to come.

Weekend in Chattanooga

The last weekend in March we went to Chattanooga with Clay and Ashely. We went to Unclaimed Baggage which is way over rated, except of the man who bought an oil painting for $65 and a few months later discovered it was work between $15,o0o - $20,000. Then we got to Chattanooga and visited the MoonPie store - I do not like moon pies, but everyone else enjoyed it. Then we went to the Chattanooga zoo...it's a laugh. There are deer and raccoon and coytotes. i can see these in my backyard if I wanted too. Then we visited Bluff Park - it's an art district. Fabulous place. They have a statue of an artist's idea of the progidal son (seen below)

Afterwards, we met up with Angela!! She was my former boss at the seminary! It was so great to see her! A breath of fresh air! As for the shirt that Brent is wearing in the picture, he wore it in honor of her. If you can't read it, it says "fat people are harder to kidnap". A group of us who worked together got a group up to go to a baseball game and Brent wore this shirt. When we arrived someone said they liked his shirt. I proceed to tell everyone that Angela has the same shirt! Silent pause as everyone realizes what I just said. Then much laughter! It was hilarious! Brent and Angela do have the same shirt - only it says "sarcasam is just one of the free gifts I offer." That's the shirt I thought he had on. You really had to be there. It was great moment in history!

Oh! As for the hill with the people below - we drove past a park and at this hill there were tons of people with card board surfing down the hill - it looked like so much fun!

Progidal Son statue

Hooray for Angela! Love her!

What a great weekend!

Update #122

So........our home study is in the final review with our placing agency and it should be sent off to DHR by the end of this week or at the beginning of next week! :) Hooray!!! Who knew it would take almost a whole year? We are s-l-o-o-w! If you are considering adoption, your home study will not take a whole year - maybe 2 months, 3 tops! But we are slow.

We also have fundraiser planned for Saturday May 22! It's a painting fundraiser - this is going to be fun! If you would like more info just let me know in the comment box.
Brent is hoping to sell some Boston butts again at some point. Maybe we will do a dessert auction at my mom's church. Or maybe God will just sell a few of those cattle on the thousand hills for us! :) He is faithful like that, you know. :)

Our friends T and J have received their travel plans!!! They travel within the next two weeks!! I am so excited for them!

DiscipleNow is coming up for the youth. It's going to be great! Annual couch wars!

So good times this week!

Have a great one!

Back Stories

So I have recently become very interested in all the back stories in the Bible. Take Mark - he is writing the "memoriors of Peter" or so that is what the history section of my Bible tells me.
Mark uses the word immediately, a lot. It's actually pretty funny. Do you think he or possibly Peter wanted things to happen quickly all the time - do you think one or both had a touch of ADD? Does Mark have a short attention span - he jumps around so much? Or could it have been that Peter was so excited and just loved following Jesus so much that he told Mark his thoughts in "stream of conciousness" mode?

Also in 1 Peter 3, Peter talks about wives - I know and believe that the Bible was totally inspired by the Lord. But do you think that Peter was directed by the Lord to write that based on his wife, or mother-in-law (see Mark 1:29-31), or maybe he and his wife had some friends where the husband chose to follow Christ (literally when Christ was physically on the earth) by the wife's devotion and actions?
Because Peter was married, he must of had a desire to have a godly marriage and most likely for others who are married to have also have a godly marriage.

So far one of my favorites is the story of Blind Bartimaeus . Can't you picture it? :)
I think it's so interesting that Jesus stood still and waited for Bartimaeus to come to him, or well be helped to Him at least. And then Jesus asks Bartimaeus what he wants Him to do for him. And Bartimaeus doesn't even hesitate - he knows exatly what he wants. He gets down to the very need that hinders him.
I think if Jesus asked me that question - what would I say, would I get down to my deepest need or would I ask for other things?

What would you say if Jesus said: "What do you want Me to do for you?"

Window Treatments!

Window treatments - formally known as curtains - have made their way on my windows after a year! These lovely orange curtians were in our bedroom when we lived in Texas and now they nicely accent our living room walls by mirroring the light orange wall across from them!

The brown ones below were actually meant to go in the sunroom, but make the bathroom much nicer!

Then there is Brent shooting me with a nerf gun he found while cleaning out! HAHA!! He's so fun!

Also today is my mom's birthday! Happy Birthday, mom! Love you!

Addendum

Yes, I know 3 posts in one night is ridiculous - but I get side-tracked! :)

I posted something on my facebook and I wanted to add an addendum to the post on March 7 about April and Tobi getting married. I remembered that I actually did have a breakdown while I worked at the Seminary. It was the week before Trustees. Enough said.

Face-lift

I decided while I posted it blog that it was time for a face lift! I have also got to come up with a new name for this blog. Our Journey doesn't fit anymore. So, if you have any ideas, please share.

Thanks!

Random thought of the day: John Wayne was born in 1907. How wierd is that?

The 4 "I's" of shopping....

#1 - I am a terrible shopper. Honestly. I usually wander aimlessly through a store and move the clothes on the racks hoping that some fabulous outfit will jump out at me, with a cheap price tag.
I usually have shop off manquiens and pictures in the stores to come up with a "cute" outfit.

#2 - I realize that I have expensive taste. I get this from my mother, altough she does not buy expensively, this is problaby why I think it ridiculous to pay the $35 for one shirt at New York and Co. or Belks and then wind up with nothing at all or something that looks exactly what I already have in hanging in the closet that was on the clearance rack with last years clothing items.

#3 - I am not very good at shopping with people, with the exception of my mom and Christy. Christy is a fabulous shopper who can land all kinds of deals and has great ideas. Even with other girls or Brent I tend to wander and focus more on what they are doing or looking at, than finding the reason I came to shop!

#4 - I have recently discovered Ross! It's so great! Cheap clothes, cute clothes, and I came up with outfits all on my own! I have been in there 3 times (one last year and two this year) and have had to execute my will-power to not buy the entire store! Yes, you do have look through the racks, but they have such variety and you can take 8 items into the dressing room!

I love it. You've got to try it.