Bags with a verse!

"Let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth."

The bags!

Here they are!  Next week we get some that have a verse on the bottom.  Love it! 

They are ten dollars -- $12.50 if we need to send it to you.  You can pay Anna or me when you see us OR you can use the chip in.

By the way, the chip in shows only those people who have paid through Pay pal but the thermometer in the margin shows ALL the money we have raised so far.  Now I'm going for $2000....

Thanks for your support for the orphans!!  Kathryn.

Why I want to go to Uganda

So I decided I should explain all of this a little better....

When I found out that Deb was adopting a baby from Uganda I thought that it was really neat but nothing more. Then one day my mom and I were driving in the car and I just said, "Hey. Do you think Deb will take me with her?" I kinda thought that mom would just laugh at me but instead she said that I should go for it and give her a presentation of why I should go. I kept saying that I knew the answer would be "no" but mom said, "Its Debbie... you never know."  :) So I prepared for Deb a presentation that gave her all the reasons I thought I should go. You can check it out here.  Here are some of my reasons:

The main reason I want to go is because I want to help out the kids over there sooo bad. I feel like I can work with the kids and be their friend. Then I just recently went on a missions trip to Tennessee and I acquired a heart for helping people out. After Deb said that I could go with her but she would like it if I could raise money for the orphans, I immediately started thinking about how I could help.  This experience of trying to raise money and soo exciting. So by raising money, I feel like I can help so much more. Also, I think that this experience will be life changing and maybe a start for more of things like this for me. To see the way those people live I feel like I will become so much more grateful for the things I have. (I already feel more grateful and that's just from reading books!) And last, I think that this trip will look really good on a college application saying that I had experience in another country working with another culture.

Keep your eyes out for a GREAT bag we will be selling to raise funds.  It is cute, cute, cute!!!  And, if you want to donate, see the chip-in below.  AND, if you want to follow along the process, you can go to Deb's blog HERE.

So there are just a few points for why I feel like I should do this. Thank you for your prayers!  Kathryn

Uganda

So we have found out that Aunt Deb will be adopting Leah Grace from Uganda and when I found out, I decided that I would like to go on the trip. I figured the experience would be amazing, life changing, and something I would really like to do.



My trip and accommodations are already paid for, but I would really like to raise money for orphans. Anna and I are going to work together to meet a goal of $500 but if we could raise more that would be amazing. If you can help me meet that goal it would be great, but if you can't, prayers for the trip and fundraising are just as good. Here are a few facts.....

• Malaria kills more than 2,000 children each day
• 20% of African children die before the age of 5
• There are 15 million HIV/AIDS orphans in Africa
• Every three seconds a child dies from AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa
• Nearly 2 million children under 14 years old are HIV positive
• Between 12 and 14 million children have been orphaned due to HIV/AIDS
• There are about 2,500,000 million orphans just in Uganda

Those are just a few statistics, but you can see that the orphans need your help. Thanks for reading this.

-Kathryn

You can chip in using Paypal here! And for more info look at this... http://chosen-1s.blogspot.com/

Birthdays and Halloween

Here are a few pictures from Grace and Sam's birthday, the pumpkin patch, and Halloween.

The birthday party






Good job Grace!!! Good try Sam!! :)


Pumpkin patch








Carving time!!


They looked so good!


Not quite sure what Anna was...


Kathryn was Dorothy.


Sam was a pizza man and Grace was a spa girl.


Pizzas here!!


Preschool Halloween parade!!

OBX and Chicago!!!

Sorry it has been soooooo long, but we have a boatload of pictures for you. These are all of our pictures from the Outer Banks and Chicago!! Enjoy!!




Pop- pop got Sam a fishing pole!! We're testing it out in the backyard. :)



At the beach house!!


Award winning picture!!



Grace, Sam, Leta, and Elaine had fun in the sand!!



Sam and I had lots of fun in the tide!!


The "older kids." :)


What a brood!!


Fun in the sand!!


Sam has so much fun jumping to dad!!


Fun in the waves!!


Sam, Grace, and Mom


So many kids!!


What a group!!


So many kids!!



The Biddle Clan


After the beach, my friend Phoebe came up to Maryland!!


Down to Chicago....

Sam was a great big cousin!!



Corn!! Yum!!


Pop- pop, Grandma, and the kids!!


Busily helping Grandma!!


Seth and I had a great time together!!


We went fishing at the park with Pop- pop!!



Sam got to use his new fishing pole!!


Watering the garden!!


Fun at the zoo!!



Fun at the zoo!!




We had such a great time on all of our vacations!!!!

The BEACH!!

Well summer has finally begun for the Biddle Family. We went down to Bethany Beach in Delaware. On Tuesday som emore family came to visit us. Here are so pictures!! Enjoy!!

Sorry it has been soooooo long....

Anna turned 14 on May 8. She, Mom, and her friend Jayne went to get pedicures. Happy birthday Anna!






Then Grace had a play at the school and they had to dress up as a movie character. She and her friends dressed up as dalmatians.






Sam got a hair cut for the summer...

Before - After





Anna got inducted into the Junior Honors Society.




and finally, Grace and her friend Katelyn made a beach scene for the art show at school.






That's it for now but there will be more coming soon.