Rwanda -Summer 2012 Part 1

There are SO many pictures that have SO many memories attached to them and I want to post them all. But since there are literally 2,070 I have attempted to choose a "few" favorites to let you see this beautiful county, these beautiful people, and just a glimpse of our time there. We had a wonderful trip, God used us in ways we didn't even fathom, and we are confident that we accomplised the mission that He had in mind for us. It was not all without trials, but it was worth it...every single minute. I'll start with the beginning of our trip. The second we landed in Kigali (after a grueling 47 hours of travel) we headed up in a van for the 3 hour trip to Gisenyi to visit the Noel Orphanage. I couldn't wait to share this special place with my kids, the Weavers, and Tori. We had an amazing time there!

 There are around 600 kids at this orphanage and of course you want to give attention to them all! I was so impressed with the kids just trying to love on each and every one!

 This sweet boy was in the infant room but to me seemed to be around 4. I don't know what his special need was, or why he wasn't in the special needs building but Parker just immediately started playing with him and loving on him. It was precious!

 Someone had the task of shoe washing that day and they did a great job! Here they were all lined up to dry in the sun.

 This is one of the boys dorms

 The girls got a kick out of the Justin Bieber poster in the girls dorm!

 This is one of my favorite pictures of the whole trip! Sweet Patty just loving on these kids and they could feel it!!

 This is one of the kitchens- it is SO hot in there!

 The kids walking out to play in the field

 Parker with kids wanting to go 2 different directions!

 The direction to the pigs won out! They wanted to show us all the pigs- all the kids tried to chase them!

 Here are some of the older boys clearly enjoying every minute they get to spend on the His Chase basketball court! Thanks to Mark and Chelsea Jacobs, Chase left a legacy even all the way on the other side of the world!

 Watch out for giant cows whilst playing soccer!:)

 The girls talking about many different African countries

 The sweet ladies wrapping on a precious baby to Chandler's back! It was a highlight of the day for sure!

 Even though I have a TON of laundry to do after 3 weeks in Africa, it is much harder to complain about it after seeing their never-ending amount

 For lunch, we got to walk down the road to Tara's house and see the No. 41 sewing school in action! The older girls from the orphanage get to come learn how to sew and make the neatest bags and jewelry!

 Chandler and Tara!

 This is the girl who made Chandler's bag!

 Then it was back to the orphanage for the rest of the day!

 Precious faces- you just fall in love all day long!

Such an amazing day! More and more pics to come!

Africa T Shirts!

 We are SOLD OUT of shirts for the moment!! Thank you!







We finally have our Africa t- shirts for sale!! As you know, we are headed back to Rwanda in just THREE weeks!! We are so excited but we still have some fundraising to do! (We had a little modeling session with the Cheathams!) There are 4 different shirts- all are $20 each
Let's start with the green...and the navy...
These are both the same shirt- super soft and comfy, v neck, unisex. They fit completely true to size- Jeff and Derek have on a large and I have a medium. All the shirts have Isaiah 61 on the back. And on the front say pray.give.go which was inspired by my super cool blog friend, Wynne

 Next is the baseball tee- love this one!! (well ok I love all of them:)) This one comes in YOUTH sizes too! (Don't worry, little man Beck Cheatham has one on order:)) they run a little big- I got a small in it (which is probably why it's my favorite;) Jeff still went with a large though- just depends how you like them to fit!

 And lastly here is the teal-ish color women's fit tee. It is also soft and comfy but more of a "fitted tee"  You definitely want to go a size up in these. Heather has a medium on here and is definitely a small usually! I got a large in this one. Chandler can wear the small though and it looks super cute on her too!

So yeah, that's it! Order yours today and help support our trip! Thank you!!! If you are local just let me know and I can just give it to you so you don't have to pay shipping:)

i love CAMP! (cheer camp part 2)

Ok, this was the BEST day at camp!! We always have one day at camp to wear whatever colors we want- just to break up the one million red white and black tshirts in our closets! So as I was looking around for some fun, different shirts I ended up looking at some blogs I read....and found THE PERFECT shirts for camp!! My sweet online friend,   Wynne is adopting a sweet little boy from Ethiopia and naming him CAMP!!!! How precious! and was selling these shirts to help raise money for the adoption. I knew right away we must wear these!!

 I mean seriously, how cute are these!! My girls loved them and LOVED the story behind them!

 So we get to the morning rally and give a shirt to all 4 of our buddy counselors! They immediately put them on and wore them for the rest of the day!! Cameron (below) wanted to know all about them so we start telling him the story. And then....he has all 64 FWC Cheerleaders stand up so all 450 campers can see our shirts and then asks the girls to tell everyone what they're about!! It was the coolest thing!

 3 of our buddies wearing CAMP shirts!

 We wore them all day around the TCU campus and I cannot tell you how many people asked us about them! At some point in the day I started handing out notebook paper "business cards"! So many of the staff and other schools wanted to go to the website and order shirts too!!

It was such a blessing to get to wear these and get to talk about a sweet little boy who will soon be home with his forever family! AND after she had made these shirts they found out that they actually get to adopt TWO sweet kids! Camp now has a sister... Asher! We cannot wait to watch this story unfold and see these 2 precious children come home!! As a squad, we will be praying for them and will all celebrate the day they get to be with their mommy and daddy!