Yay! Holidays!

It's been a little while since I posted, so we have lots of pictures! Yay!

We will do the most exciting news first! On November 19th, in the Whatcom County Superior Court Gaspard Chancy and Anthionine Petitome officially became Isaiah Gaspard Scheffer and Annecy Anthionine Hope Scheffer. Even though this happened already in our hearts over 10 long years ago, the papers are now official. Here is a picture of everyone in their smiles, after Mom had a good cry while signing the papers. Following the court appointment they had a reception for all of the adoptive families that had their papers finalized that day and they had lots of sugar, presents and most importantly a really funny balloon man. Her are all of the kids sporting their balloon decor.

We hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving sharing it with family and friends. Ours was wonderful, we got to share it with lots of friends and followed the dinner up with a Wheeler/Scheffer re-enactment of the original Thanksgiving! Here are some pictures of our little Pilgrims coming over on the Mayflower and the Indians saying goodbye to Squanto (the pilgrims look very similar to the indians).

And finally we have a picture of all of our kids together for Christmas time. They all had so much fun putting up the tree and all of the Christmas decorations together. When Elijah was still in the womb, Mom made felt stockings for all of the kids with their names on them. For the last 8 years we have hung Isaiah and Annecy's stocking with all of the others, in faith that they would be home the next year to use them. This year our faith came to fruition. They were so excited to hang them on the mantle and know that this year they would get filled with goodies like all the rest.

All together a pretty productive and blessed couple of weeks. We pray your holiday season holds the same and we'll miss seeing you that are far away, but know we love you just the same.

Harvest time!

We had our church Harvest Party on the 31st of October. Isaiah had a hard time deciding between dressing up as Zoro, a Ninja or Superman, Superman finally won out. Annecy was a Princess and Kenya was a pirate girl, wiht Elijah as the Pirate. They had lots of fun making Carmel Apples, fishing, bowling and bean bagging for candy. They also got to do a cookie walk and a cool craft.

Isaiah and Annecy got to experience their first fall season this year. Piles of leaves are now their favorite thing. This is them at our friends The Wheelers.

Hope you all have a blessed Thanksgiving, if you don't have a place to be, we would love to have you. We thank God for our countless blessings and hope you are blessed even more!

First Face Painting

We went to Dusty's pumpkin farm for some Fall festivities and Isaiah got his face painted for the first time, it was not a simple heart and balloon shape either, he and Kenya got the whole works.

We got to go through the corn maze with help from the Wheelers, we made it through after several failed attempts. We found some cute little pumpkins, did a couple three legged races, some gunny sack races and Isaiah and Annecy came in first with their long legs, on all of them.

Annecy got to take her first horse ride and since she didn't want to wait in the long line for the more detailed face painting, she did get the heart shapes along with Elijah, who got a snake.

We had so much fun and we are looking forward to lots more Thanksgiving and Christmas memories coming up. Please continue to pray for the building we are hoping to buy. We need to give them an answer in the next week, as to whether we can come up with the down payment they are looking for and it will definantly be only God if He makes this possible. Thanks for the prayer if He wants it, He will do it! Happy Fall to you all!

It's show time!

The kids have started putting on shows for anyone who will watch. So we got the camera out and figured we would broaden the spectrum. It starts out as practiced, serious drama and some how turns into serious goofing off with in a matter of minutes so here is a little of both.

We got to go to the Northwest Pastors Conference in Seattle last Monday and Tuesday. We spent the night in a hotel and got to eat vietnamese food for dinner. It was so nice for us to spend some time together while the kids stayed with a sitter. You forget how much you need it until you get it. If Charity would have not had a sore throat clogged sinuses and a cough. It would have been even better.

We are enjoying the fall activities with the summer weather. We turned on the air conditioning closed the blinds and made hot chocolate to pretend it was a snow day, we snuggled and read books most of the day. Then when we got tired of that, we took blankets and pillows out on the lawn and enjoyed the hot sunshine while we read some more books. Those are the days I live for. To bad they have to come to an end.

Please continue to pray for a meeting place for Calvary Ellensburg. We still have not been successful in finding one and know that it will all be in the Lord's perfect timing. Thanks!

Fall is Here!

We are back into school and the kids are doing great! Annecy and Isaiah have been working so hard to get caught up and most of the time it is with a great attitude. We have been enjoying the last bits of warmth here in Ellensburg, scattered with some sweet thunder and hail storms. The kids and their friends all ran outside in their swim suits on Sunday to get soaking wet from the down pour that was in full force.

We had a great time last weekend as the Men all went to the men's retreat and the mom's and kids had a chick flick and chocolate party. We all had way too much candy and not nearly enough sleep, which made for very lazy Saturday, Annecy got so bored though she proved to Mom that could actually do her own hair. It took her all day with play breaks in between, but now we know she's capable and I think she wishes she would have kept her secret talent hiddden.

We could use lots of prayer for our church building situation, we are really growing out of the one we are in and we have 2 building options right now but we are waiting to see what the Lord has in store for us. Please pray for wisdom and favor, in accordance with whatever the Lord has for us. Both are very exciting options and could really be great places to meet. Thanks for your prayers. Have a blessed day!

Ready for fall!

Summer is winding down and we are ready to slow down a bit and hand out at home. It seems every summer we commit to not being as busy, but for some reason it never quite works out that way. Maybe we should try to get busier and see if that has the oppisite effect. The kids had fun taking care of the new batch of baby bunnies this summer. As soon as another bunny has babies we become the favorite house on the block.

We have had a fun summer with lots of little trips and visits. Our highlight was Califonia with a stop over in Oregon to go to our favorite church retreat Applegate. While there we got to visit an art gallery. A woman who wanted to paint pictures of Haitian Children to benefit the rebuilding in Haiti had painted a picture of Annecy when she was about 5. It was beautiful! We got a shot of Annecy standing next to it.

We got to play with Grandma's and Granpa's a lot and had lots of snuggle and lov'in time.

And as a cherry on top of the cake, we had our wonderful friends the Wheeler's move into town.

We are getting ready to start school again and really put our nose to the grind stone this year as we are all getting older and that means mom has to actually start doing school along with them, since she didn't pay attention the first time around and now has to teach it.

Church is growing like crazy lately and we have officially grown out of the building we are in, we could really use your prayers and we are trying to get into a new building, but trying to work out the financial end of it and make it work for both parties involved. We know the Lord is the great provider and will work out all things. We have been very blessed financially with the building we are currently in, but unfortunatly we have way to many kids to make it still work. Please pray we will walk in his leading and not try to do what we think will work. God Bless you all!

it's been a long time com'in

wow, i guess weare in desperate need of updating! Summers get so busy and it seems like we can never catch up. So for the two grandma's who have been praying for us to update the blog, your prayers have been answered...thanks for the broken arms. now that i have figured out how to position the computer just right so i can reach most of the keys with my one hand i can use, i have lots of time to update as there is not much else i can do. so i hope you will forgive my lack of caps and punctuation as i don't have another pinky for the shift key.

the kids and i took a bike ride a couple of days ago and my seat was slightly loose, so with all of the smarts i could muster i decided to try to push it back into place while still in motion and spilled my bike catching myself with my non-shock-absorbing hands. I am now going to be a public speaker for bike safety rules. For the past couple of days my kids no longer fight over toys, they fight over who gets to feed mom, who get to brush her teeth and put her hair in a ponytail. God is so good at teaching us humility. My wonderful mother in law is now bunking with us for a week to wash my hair, among other things.

A lot has happened since Seaworld and i will post some quick pics to illistrate, but i will have to keep typing to a minimum as i am sure my Dr would frown on my use of reaching the full keyboard.

We have been enjoying lots of water and sun as it is a hot one, but nothing like doing it with lots of friends.

Isaiah and mom went to "creation fest 2010" in enumclaw, which is a huge 4 day long christian musical artist festival with speakers and concerts all day long, we only went friday for Isaiahs favorite artist, "toby mac" it was so much fun and we loved it. Dad took the other kids camping and they had a blast also.

it was also kenya's 9th b-day this month and she had lots of friends over for a pool party, since, mom could not do a darn thing to help, we had lots of friends who pitched in. one of them made a sweet puppy cake.

well we will try to keep up a little more, but have great summer!