Happy Thanksgiving!

As we reflect upon the blessings the Lord has given to us over this past year, we are quite overwhelmed. We have wonderful family, precious friends, an amazing church, all that we need and more. We are also very grateful that we are in our new church facilities this year...we were working hard this time last year praying that we'd be in by the spring. And we are also so grateful that the process of our adoption is coming along fairly quickly! Most of all, we are thankful for the salvation that is ours because of the amazing love of our Savior, Jesus Christ! Praise God from Whom all blessings flow! A few pics of the Foropoulos family...I am glad my mom and sister like to get big family pics as much as I do, because otherwise I wouldn't have them. We had such a fun time with all our family, but as you can see I don't have pics from the others. We're so grateful for our families...they are such a blessing to us! Not to mention lots of fun!

Thanksgiving at Joyland!

On the first Thanksgiving, there were Pilgrims, Indians, and a feast, but I'm pretty sure they weren't this adorable! Bennett and his Joyland friends reminded us all of God's provisions and blessings not just for early Americans, but also for us today! One blessing we are very grateful for is Joyland...it has been such a great place for both our boys to learn educational foundations as well as learn more about God's goodness!

Decorating for Christmas!!!

This year we decided to decorate for Christmas earlier than usual...this made me very happy :) I love this time of year! We wanted to come back from our Thanksgiving travels and be able to enjoy an already decorated home...so, we fired up the Christmas music and got to work! I put on my 147 Million Orphans shirt so that when our little girl looks back at pictures in the years to come, she'll know we were thinking of her. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE this time of year?!

Honduras Chili Supper and Silent Auction

Our Honduras Mission Team hosted a chili supper and auction to raise funds for our 2011 trip. Items were donated and tickets sold for the dinner, and in the end after all expenses, we raised around $2500! Way to go team, and thanks to all who supported us! We're hoping to take around 18 this year!!!

Foropoulos Family Campout

We'd been wanting to do a big family campout all fall, and this was the weekend! We all headed to Millington to camp at Wave and Dave's farm. We had a fun night roasting hot dogs and making s'mores. Dave even made a yummy campfire cobbler! After a Granddaddy Williams story from Grumps and our Bible story from Ge, we headed to our tents. Wave slept inside with Zane and Bonnie, but the rest of us were outside. It was cold, and at 3 am we heard loud boys' voices...yep, they went in to sleep in the warm house while the rest of us toughed it out on the cold, hard ground in our tents. We had such a fun time...we're truly blessed to be part of a family that has fun together!

Bennett's Soccer Team Party

To celebrate a fun season of soccer, we had a party at Dairy Delight complete with trophies and ice cream! Way to go, Bennett...we are so proud of you!

Caleb's First 5k

Caleb and I ran in the Healthy Henry County 5k together! I was super proud of him...we walked most of it (holding hands, hehe) in a cold drizzling rain, but it was so much fun to do it together!
Corey was dealing with an injury in his Achilles, so he wasn't able to run but he did cheer us on and meet us at the finish!