Birthday love for Anna

In less than a month it will be sweet Anna's 6th birthday.  Ohhhh how we have hoped that we would have her home for her birthday and we now realize there is no way this is going to happen :(  Now we can only pray for a court date ASAP and pray that we will get to see her sometime again around her birthday. At least we have comfort in knowing that while she has gone almost six years with no birthday parties, no family to love her and celebrate her, we at least know that this will be her last birthday in that institution!  Thank you God!

We still have to raise a little less than $3,000 so that we can make our third trip to her country and pick her up!  I'm asking you, will you please share our link/story in hopes that we can raise the rest of the money?  There's not much time left to raise $3,000 but we all know that God is in control and he will make sure that we some way, some how have all of the finances in order to complete our adoption of Anna. Will you show this sweet pea some birthday love and make a donation, pray and share our story?  Remember, no amount is too small and will be much appreciated!  You can make a *tax deductible* donation to help us bring our girly home by clicking on the Reece's Rainbow link to the right.  Make sure that you mention - The Williams family - Anastasia.   What an awesome 6th birthday present you can give her.....the gift of a family. God bless you all who have donated, prayed and shared our story with your family and friends :)

Overwhelmed.....

with kindness, love, generosity, etc. As the saying goes “God does his best work through people”. How true this statement is. I have met some of the most amazing friends along our journey to adopt Anna. From the beginning of our journey I had comfort from the Holy Spirit that I did not need to worry about financing our adoption. God knew our finances, yet he still called us to step out in faith that he would provide a way for us to adopt Anna. So far God has provided for every need that we have had financially, in one way or another. We are praying that our journey to bring Anna home will end next month as we are hoping to get a court date ASAP. Please pray that our court date will come in time in order for us to avoid $1,200 more in charges for an additional medical exam in her country. We were told to do our medical exams on our first trip, but the exams are only good for 90 days, well our 90 days expires in May! Please pray that our paperwork will be correct and finished in order for us to get a court date soon.  Also, please pray for our little Anna and for God to protect her while she waits. We are so anxious to get her home where she belongs and give her a loving and forever family. My arms just ache to hold her again. How much longer Lord, how much longer?



Speaking of sweet and generous people… my good friend Debbea called me today and told me that her little girl wants to have a spa night for a couple of her moms friends. She said that she would to do treatments for these ladies for free but they can make donations to help bring our Anna home. Now how sweet is that? This little girl is only 9 years old and wants to help us bring our baby girl home! Also, a lady named Rachel who sells Premier Jewelry and has offered to do a party for me and she will donate all of the profit to Anna’s funds! God is good, people are good! Thank you Lord! Our original plans were to raise $30,000 for our adoption funds. We have reached our $30,000 goal…yaaaaayy wooooo hooray…. And then found out we will need to make a 3rd trip to her country. So now we are working on raising an extra $3,000 to help fund our last trip. We are already a little under that last $3,000 after a donation that was made this past week!! If God has brought us this far, I have faith that he will provide for that last, unexpected trip. Believe with me! Pray with me! Share our story and pray some more! xoxoxoxo

Our two trips to rescue Princess Anna has turned into three trips now. After going on our first trip, adding up expenses and figuring out the expenses for our second trip and our extra third trip we still need to raise an additional $3,000.  Will you please share our story on Facebook, emails, friends and family, etc to help us raise the extra money?  If God has gotten us this far, he will certainly provide the means for our family to make Anna our daughter....I have faith in that!  We found out this weekend that "the powers" in Anna's region want some things done differently so that means extra paperwork and extra expenses, but the worst thing is that it throws additional time in there that we don't have a court date yet :(  Please pray that we are able to get every piece of paperwork we need in a speedy time to avoid a delay in getting a court date. Thank you and God bless each and every one of you for all that you have done for us!

Exciting news!

Oh happy day!  Our court papers were sent out by Fedex this afternoon!  I'm praying that everything is correct and that we get our court date ASAP! We are so anxious to go back and fetch our sweet girly out of that mental institution.  That just sounds icky doesn't it? A mental institution...no place for a sweet little girl like her ~

Our medical exams are only good for 90 days and we have already used over 30 days! So please pray that

we are able to get a court date before those 90 days expire.  The medical exams were over $600 each and they will require new exams if they expire!  But the expiration date on the medical exams is secondary.....rescuing sweet Anna as soon as we can is most important to us :)  We can't wait to have her home, right here where she belongs......

Please pray for Carrington

 This sweet little girl was adopted this week from an orphanage in Eastern Europe.

Look at those chubby cheeks, how precious is she?

Now look at this photo below.

 

That is also a picture of her. This is what her newly adoptive parents

found when they went to change her clothes after they had just rescued her from the
orphanage. This child is 3 years old and weighs 11 pounds.

Yes, 11 pounds. 

Right now she is in a hospital in America clinging to her life. They say that her body
is in shut down mode and that it is a miracle that she is even alive.

This is child abuse no matter how you look at it.

You know, there are a lot of people who look down on families like ours

who go and rescue these precious children from EE, because they feel that 

we should adopt from America.  When they see pictures like this picture of 

sweet little Carrington, I wonder if they still feel the same way?

I don't know of any institution or orphanage in America where it is acceptable

to neglect a child with Down syndrome just because the child has a disability. 

Do you? Please pray for Carrington and the many children just like her

who are abused, neglected,starved etc. just because they 

have a disability.  Please pray that Carrington pulls through this

and gets to go home so that she can experience life in a family

that loves her and cherishes her because she IS so very worthy

of that love.