A letter to my Igor

Dear sweet Igor,

I have had the honor of being your christmas warrior this year.

What a sweet blessing you have been to me.

My goal was to reach $1000 and that seemed imposible for a 15 year old. But right before christmas we reached that goal.... God is sooooo good!

I prayed for my christmas present to be you finding a family, but checking Reeces Rainbow on Jesus's birthday did not see you in the 'I found my family' section.

I guess I lost hope. But something within me told me not too. I had made you a promise of not letting you die in that awful institution, I was not going to fail.

You don't know it yet, but yesterday you started a new chapter of your life.
You now have a mumma and dadda coming for you baby boy. I do not know if you have brothers and sisters waiting at home but if you look around yopur room and find sweet Lezza and Trenton, they are going to be your brother and sister. OH. MY. WORD.....

I am so exited for your mumma to come and get you! You are going to be so loved!
Someone will tuck you into be every night. You can play out side too!
You are going to thrive!!!!

Today I read a blog from a family who adopted for your orphanage.
They discribed what it was like. It made me want to throw up baby!
I am so sorry you are in such a sick, discusting place, with people who do not care about you.... it is wrong!
But it will change soon.

You will be loved!
You will be adored!
You will be cherished!
You will LOVE life!


Love, Taylah

Merry late CHRISTmas

Oh how I simply ADORE each of you :)

You brighten up my day!

I wont let it happen baby,

We have less then 4 months to find 'my' baby a family! YES, 4 months!
Igor will too soon know what an institution looks like, but WE can save him.... yes US!
I am not sure what his region is like... Weather they will try to delay the date of him being sent away, or weather on his birthday, March 14th, he WILL be transferred... a family coming or not!
If a family commites to him now, there is a chance that they will have to get him out of the insitiution and not an orphanage (some children get transffered if a family IS coming).... but isn't that better then letting him DIE?!
There IS hope for Igor.... WE are his hope, his only and last hope of living to feel what it is like to be hugged and kissed and LOVED!
I want that for 'my' baby! I NEED that for my baby!!!

WE NEED TO SAVE IGOR! Time is short, very short!

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PLEASE hear my plea!
Pray for Igor :)

Igor, I won't let you die an orphan baby boy.... you WILL be loved!

I want you to know...

There are so many things I want you to know.
Some of these things I will tell you over and over....
Others you will learn all on your own, because you are just so smart!

Oscar,
I want you to know the reason why we are having so much fun this time of year!
Why I am letting you eat candy canes and marshmellos!
Why we dance around the new house listening to Taylor Swifts chritsmas songs.
Why I made you go and see a wierd man in a red suit who gave you raindeer ears.
Why we have a huge tree in the middle of the house.

Well, you know that amazing guy I always tell you about? The one who SAVED us?
It is his birthday!
Remember when it was your birthday and you got all those presents and a big cake?
That is what we do to celebrate Jesus' birthday too!
But we need to remember the true meaning of christmas...

I don't want you to grow up thinking that Christmas is all about Santa and gifts!
I want you to know that the spirt of christmas is giving!
Becuase that is what Jesus would want us to do... and it is HIS birthday!
That is why I am helping Igor this christmas! Because he doesn't have a family to celebrate christmas with yet...
But we will find him one, OK :)

Merry Christmas baby, remember why we celebrate christmas!!

Happy birthday Jesus!!!

Birthday, Oscar, Christmas, Blog hops, Blessings....

So, I have SOOOOO much to blog about, and I am going to try to fit it all in here :)

First off, Birthday's!!!
Happy Birthday Gragra :)


Gragra is my mum's mum. When Lana was a baby she couldn't say Grandma, instead Gragra! So thats what we call her, Cool huh?!
She always has a way of making us feel specail! And what is truly great is that she live's with us! She helps out with house work and keeping us kids in order ;) haahaha!
She is just amazing ;)
Happy birthday Gragra, we love you so much!

Oscar
Guess who moved into their new house?! WHOOOO :)
It is so much better then their old house, and big enough to fit everyone now! Hip Hip Horray! So just to fill you in, they have Uncle Paul, Carolyn (Oscars Mum and Dad), Wayne (Oscar's big brother) and his son, Brendan.
It is great having Bren there because Oscar just adore's him! Although it gets a bit crazy with a crazy 4 yr old! ;)
All in all, things with Oscar are good. Bottom is looking ok, but still a bit sore (That ain't going away anytime soon!)
I am still working on crawling, but he aint having a bar of it!!! hahahaha!
Gotta love him :)

Christmas
SOOOOOOOOO close! Oh MY! I have almost finished my shopping :) I have a christmas party with my friends on Wednesday night and I am super exited! Ill will take some pictures ;)
We have my uncle and aunty and 2 cousin's (who I havn't seen in AGES!!!!) coming down for christmas so I am sooooo exited! :)
Not long to go!

Blog hop
Make sure you check out to love the unloved blog about our blog hop and find out ways you can help orphans and win something FOR FREE!!! :)

Blessings
So I went onto Reeces Rainbow and saw that Igor has $1025!! That means I have reached my goal in time for christmas! I can easily say... THAT IS THE BEST GIFT EVER!
Thank you everyone!

For now, that is all :)

SUPRISE :)

My first ever guest post (well besides Sarah who wrote in one of my posts;))
Meet my beautiful friend Shani! (Warning....you will need tissues if you are anything like me!!!!).....

My name is Shani King and I am lucky enough to call this amazing girl my friend. Through Taylah I have learnt that love, beauty and beautiful souls come in all shapes, sizes and most of all from many different types of upbringing in various places around the world. I have learnt so much about people with Down Syndrome and I have also been blessed enough to met Oscar who is a truly remarkable young man that just has a special little sparkle within him that makes you smile. I have also been introduced to princess Chrissie whose story inspired me and really helped me through a really tough time. And now I feel like, even though I never got to meet her in person, that she is in my heart and there she will stay.

I was not totally blind to special needs, having a few special people in my life but I wasn’t aware of how lucky one can be when given the gift of a child with Down Syndrome. Taylah has also told me time and time again that they are not looking for special treatment but acceptance. I am willing to give that, through Taylah I am going to help somehow. I am inspirited by what Taylah, Savanna, Makenzie and Ashley are doing with “to love the unloved”. These girls are helping the children who need it the most.

Someone else who helps people she doesn’t know is little Miss Chrissie. When I first heard of her I thought she was a member of Taylah’s family and I also thought she was Australian. I soon found out other wise and realised that Chrissie was just one of those people who can touch your heart in such a way that she seems like family. She made me laugh, love and cry and I love her gorgeous smile. I also attended Taylah’s Chrissie party and had a ball. It was amazing! We sang, laughed and cried together but not because we were sad, because we were happy.

I have recently fallen ill and the doctors have no idea what’s wrong. I have undergone many tests and a blessing that Taylah has let me use her “boss your heart’ necklace to get me through. I have never been very religious and I have never really prayed but with this necklace I really do feel like I now have one more guardian angel watching over me and I have prayed. It really is a miracle! Thinking and talking to Chrissie even when she does not physically respond, has helped me a lot and even stopped my fear in some of the scarier tests.

So this is my input. On a parting note I just wish to say: First I love you Taylah and Oscar, you are two very special people in my life. Second I am blown away by the “to love the unloved” girls and their dedication and love for Reece’s Rainbow. Finally, to the Patterson’s thank you. That is all I can say, thank you and god bless you all. One day I also wish to be as kind and loving as all of the beautiful people I have met through my gorgeous girl Taylah. I love you baby xxxxx

Ho, Ho, Ho!

I know, I have been away for a while now.... I am sorry!!!!

This christmas is coming soooooo fast! I have most my gifts to give, just a few more, but no money!!! AHHHHH :)

Well here are some pictures! (Sorry none of my boy, will get some soon!!!!)





(Love having pictures of my Ohio family around the house!!!!!)

Guess who?

Is on the Reece's Rainbow blog!!!!

Make sure you take a look ;)

www.reecesrainbow.blogspot.com

Hope you guys like it!

Imperfections...

I would LOVE to say that I am perfect, or even close to perfect...
But the truth, I am FAR from it!

Although in saying that, you look at me a few years ago, you would be discused!
I was the girl who hated....resented....repealed. I was HORRIBLE!
I hated God, I had compleatly lost my belif in him.
Like honeslty, there is a man in the sky controling everything! I believed the science thoerys... they were right, they made sence in the world of a 13 year old. And they still are in the world of most kids my age.

Then God sent Oscar into my life.... and that changed EVERYTHING! In that first year he showed me that miricals do happen, that he really did exist. But I was happy with just that.... There is a God, He is there, He is a mirical worker... That was all I needed for now.

But then, along came Miss Chrissie. I so badly wanted to see her saved! And as I prayed for her my realtionship with God grew stronger. Chrissie showed the world that God is listening, He is saving her... fixing her broken heart! AMAZING!

But still I am not perfect. Not wonderful. Not amazing. I am just Taylah, a 15 year old. The only differance between me and the selfish, angry, typical 15 yr old is that I want to see change in the world. I want to honor God.
But I still make mistakes. I can be selfish. I can hate. I can be angry...
And it is not uncommon!

In fact it JUST happened.... I guess I am venting here too!
I am sitting in my room because I just had a fight with my Mum over something stupid!
I have planned to take the day of school tomorrow and head to the beach and that was all fine and dandy, untill now, when it is ALL orinised but NO Mum won't let us go, so I storm off and am filled with anger and hate! Which is compleatly riduculous, I know!

See. I am far from perfect! That is me, there will always be things I am great at and things I just plane stink at!

~Being Happy Doesn't Mean Everything Is Perfect.
It Just Means You've Decided To See Beyond The Imperfections

No way!

This weekend I was trying so hard to get Oscar to crawl but no way is he going to any time soon!
Not because he has Down syndrome and is 'delayed'...
Not because he has had a sore bottom for the past year and a half and for that reason is 'delayed'...
He is just lazy! lazy! lazy!

I think he likes making me look silly! I was crawling all over the ground trying to make it look fun. Then I got some of his toys and placed them infrount of him and would move them back as he reached, untill they became just out of reach. Instead of TRYING to crawl, he just rolled onto his back and start giggling at me!

Hmmmm.... I think this is going to be a SLOW process!

It is starting to get really hot so I don't know why Oscar wouldn't want to get up off the hot floor! Honestly child!!! ;)

So, does anyone has any encouragment ideas to help get our lazy little boy off the floor and moving?!



Com'n Oscar, you can do it! You can do it! Yes you can :)

Been meaning too...

Share some pictures of Oscar from my phone.....
(Oh, and I really didn't like the look of my blog so I went back to summer theme, after all it is getting hot here!)










Can you not tell that having a cousin with Down syndrome is THE BEST :)

With tears...

It is with many many many tears that I write this post!
My sweet friend Debbie (who I have mentioned in many posts as being the most amazing women I have ever come to know!) is fundraising for a child from RR, Max.
Max is such a sweet little thing... and if I could go and save him, he would be at the top of my list!
Well, today Max was transfered... to an insitiution.
Thats makes me SICK!
I can only imagine this FOUR YEAR OLD tied to a crib this morning, and still there tonight.
He is in Russia.... it is cold and he is left without blankets... he is freezing and longing for someone to pick him up, or atleast untie him so he can snuggle into a ball... he is wondering what he did wrong, Why doesn't my mommy love me? Why am I tied to a bed? Why dont they hear me crying? Why wont they ive a a blaket? Why am I here....
The answer is what makes me sick! He has Down syndrome... silly huh?
That they would let a child die becuase they have Down syndrome!!!!

There is hope for Max.... we are his hope.
His LAST hope.

Is this not a wake up call?
This is a REAL child!
A child experiancing conditions so bad I wouldnt want a fly to experiance it!

WE NEED TO SAVE MAX NOW!

Honestly.... this is a life or death situation! And I for sure wish it wasn't!

Lets get Max to a safe and loving home NOW before it really is too late!

Is it too much to ask for 5 cents? Seriously... it will help!
Find it in your heart to help this little boy.... We are his hope, his faith and his prayers!

Also, Debbie is holding Max's BIG fundraiser tomorrow. please pray all goes great and she will raise alot to help get Max home!

Below is the link to Max's fund.... HELP HIM NOW!!!

http://reecesrainbow.org/max-2h

We will save this little boy, if it is the last thing I do!!!

Max, stay strong baby, I LOVE YOU and am praying for God to keep you safe and warm!

:'(

We will change the world...

TOGETHER :)

I am SO exited to announce our news (that some of you may have seen on face book).
My friend from California and I decided that what we were doing just wasn't enough for these helpless but beautiful children on Reece's Rainbow!

Sooooooo.... "to love the unloved" was founded by Ashley and Taylah on the 30th of November and will launch on the 1st of January 2011 :)

Then along came Savana, a friend willing to help out! She emailed me asking to be a big part of this... not just helping fundraise, but help Ash and I with ALL the organising too :) What an amazing girl she is!

Head over to our blog (it looks so great becuase Ash did it up! lol) and see keep up-to-date with our fundraising ideas :)

www.tolovetheunlovedblog.blogspot.com

I would LOVE to hear your ideas too, so feel free to email me at, cute-volcom@hotmail.com

And now I will leave you with pictures of our insperations.... the ones who make us want to change the world!
Thank you Oscar, Laura and E-V

Only ONE month left!!!

We are half way through our Christmas angel projects! WHOOOOO :)
It is so great to go onto the RR site and see all these kids adoptions funds rising! WOW!

Half way through and I have around $660! Thats over half my goal so for now I am on target ;)

Thank you everyone who has donated to help save Igor!
Look out on the Reeces Rainbow blog for our post! :)

I can not beleive how fast christmas is coming! OH MY GOODNESS!

I am so exited to be helping Igor this christmas, he is just so precious!

Today I 'meet' another person adopting through RR who is just IN LOVE with Igor! She has been advocating for him on her blog too :)
Imn fact, Sasha, the child they are adopting is in THE SAME ORPHANAGE as Igor!!
WOW! How cool that she will get to meet him, hopefully soon.

She will be able to come back and tell us about the place Igor is in now... hopefully a nice orphange but I can promise you that the institution, he soon faces, will not be nice. There will be little hope for him there. So we NEED to save him SOON!

It is simple... If you are not in the position to adopt, donate! No amount is too little or too big! Money is the only thing standing in the way of these precious children being adopted! If you are not in the position to adopt... PRAY! Pray that Igors family will listen and choose life for him!

Oh also, me and my friend Ashley (Who has a sister with Down syndrome) are planning to tell you our BIG news in a few weeks :) So exited to share, but Im gonna have to leave you waiting! :(

First day of Summer here, and it is FREEZING! Boy oh boy! :(

Will get some pictures of my little man soon, promise!

He is precious!

I asked Andrea if she had any pictures of Igor as a baby and he is just BEAUTIFUL!
Honestly, I WISH I could adopt him! I would give anything to bring him home :(
His life depends on US! He is helpless without US!
WE can help him! WE CAN SAVE IGOR!

His time is limited, he wont be in a baby house much longer, and when he does there will be no hope for him! All his laughter and joys, LOST foever.

PLEASE don't let this happen to this precious baby boy.
You may not be in a position to adopt but you can donate and pray!

Please make a donation to save Our little Igor :)

God is SO good!

24 hours ago I posted about my world being rocked with the sudden news of my sweet little baby Tyler! I have to say, I havn't been that scared since Oscar was born. To think that something is wrong with Tylers brain terrified me, because I know how fragil babys are.
It scared me becuase the ONE child on that side of the family who in the first 7 months of his life DID NOT have something wrong with him... not did.
I got a phone call off Brendan, Tylers big brother, telling me "Tay I'm scared, Tyler broke his lil heady!"
What is your responce when a 4 year old tells you that?
Mine was my heart breaking over and over.

Today was a big day for Tyler,
TESTS TESTS and more TESTS!
But all is good, all is great.
God is great!
They drained the fluid from around his skull and the rest will mend on its own, in His perfect timing!

So Tyler is coming home alot sooner then we thought.... TOMORROW :)

Thank you all so much for praying, I am so blessed!

Tyler update

Updates are coming short and far between.
I don't know much, noone really does.
But it is not fluid in the brain, he has a fractured skull, which is worse in a baby.
Tyler's dad and Grandma (Oscars mum) are off to the hospital (about and hour and a half away) to see him.
Please pray!

Our world rocked

Today was great, up untill about 10 minutes ago....
I got home and found out that my cousins baby, Tyler, who is Oscar's nephew has been rushed to hospital with supposebly fliud on the brain. Then get a phone call saying my great uncle has cancer.
Just a quick post to ask you to get on your knees and PRAY PRAY PRAY!
Thankyou

The 'unwanted' twin

Yesterday our facebook world was rocked when we found out about twins, one born with Down syndrome. The twin without Down's was taken home by his family and the twin with Down's was left at the hospital. Orphaned.
Could you please pray for this precious little child, who without a family will not reach his pottential in life.

After hearing about this baby I realised just how bad people veiw Down syndrome!
If only they knew what a blessing it is to have someone blessed with an extra chromosome in your life!
If I could go through each cell of Oscar's body and take out that extra 21st chromosome I WOULDN'T!
If I could go through my body and add an extra 21st chromosome, I probebly would:)

Why is it that people see a life full of joy and love and happiness as a burden?

I can easily say that having a family member with Down syndrome is the BEST thing that has ever happened to me!

I wish the world knew... alot of children would be born and alot more children would have loving familys!

It honestly makes me sick to see the way people veiw Down syndrome!
Each and every time I take Oscar some where people stare, people are affraid... Just because he is differant!
It breaks my heart to think that I am one day going to send Oscar out into a world that doesn't accept him for who he is!

Please pray for not only 'the unwanted baby' but also the world... for them to open their eyes and see what a blessing Down syndrome really is!

Be blessed xo

So I have alot to update y'all on.
Fisrt off my world vision day (speech day!)
It went really well and I had a ball :)
I was in the top 30 and we had 2 main groups (one morning the other in the afternoon)
We played some leadership games all together and got to know eachother a bit more.
Then we went off to do our speech in mini groups. I went really well (well, I didn't stand there and cry like I expected.) Because our group finished early we went and had some morning tea and then we went off to the next activity to play some more leadership games. That was super fun and we flew though them!
The off to our group interveiw! This was my favorite part of the day because I got to talk about Oscar, Chrissie and orphans. I think I changed the peoples hearts with Miss Chrissies story!
Then we were done! OVER :(
When I walked outside guess what was there?! A rainbow from Chrissie! How special to have a gift sent straight from heaven to ME! I feel so honored!
And there you have it... my world vision experiance (I hear back by Monday if I got into the next round)

Chrissie
The 19th of each month is a reminder to me of Chrissie's life. As the 19th of each month comes it has been another month since she left us to be with Jesus. Today Chrissie has been dancing with our heavenly father for an entire 6 months! Boy-oh-boy! How that time has flown. I feel like it was just yesterday I was reading blog posts about her adoption!
Oh, how I miss this precious little girl so much!
I never meet her, never hugges her, never kissed her but I LOVED her with all my heart! And when she left this world, my heart broke, shattered, crushed.
I turned against God for taking her away and not forfilling His promise. But He did! I was just too broken hearted to see it.
Chrissie, I am so happy that you are now healed and painfree! I am so glad that you are in Hevean, and I bet you are having the time of your life. These 6 months have been hard on the entire world becuase the entire world loves you so much baby! I wish I could have meet you while you were on this earth but I am so exited that we can meet and be together eternailly when Our Heveanly Father calls me home.
Untill then Chrissie, save me some brownie batter, baby girl!


Chrissie as an orphan. Lonley with NO hope... untill the Patterson's came along and gave her that hope


I LOVE how you were such a little doll and always loved dressing up and being such a girl!


You are such an amazing little princess!


You bought so many people to Christ in your hospital stay baby girl! You are such a warrior, and I am so proud of you!


This day, six months ago, we gave you back to God


Abby
When I started talking to Chrissie's sister, Mattie (one of my bast friends) she told me about a little girl called Abby Riggs. I had been following their blog for a while but when Mattie told me more I became head over heals in love with Miss Abby.
Abby has cancer and today SHE FINISHES CHEMO!!!!!!
2 and a half years of cancer... gone :)
Please pray for Miss Abby, that the cancer will NEVER come back!




Like Chrissie, Abby has touched thousands of lives in her battle with cancer! She sure is an amazing little girl and as come so far over the past 2 years!
And isn't she just a doll!
(Mattie is in the picture above with Abby. Mattie fundraised to help grant Abbys wish, which is to adopt a baby brother or sister :) Isn't Mattie BEAUTIFUL!)
You can visit the Riggs blog at...
www.riggsfamilyblog.com

Oscar
Oscar is still the same.... SORE still :(
But he is a very brave little boy and will get through this.
Please keep praying for my sweet baby boy. It is so hard to watch the person you love in pain!