Monday, July 20, 2009

Is off to GB to meet her new team mates in IT :-)

The Elison Project is cooking!!!

Saturday, July 18, 2009

The Elison Project is excited to announce our newest project to help raise funds in order to be a blessing and positive effect in the life of children in need.

Please join us by submitting your recipes for our first cookbook!! We are looking for any and all recipes that you think might be fun and delicious for the rest of us to try. We would also like for you to include a story and or photo to accompany your recipes. for example, I will be including my world famous blueberry pancake recipe and I will share a story about the time we brought home our second daughter, Allison, home from China and we were all suffering the awful effects of jet-lag.

So what we would like for you to do is send us your recipe via email to Recipes for The Elison Project

Disclaimer:
By submitting your recipe to the upper email you confirm that we may use the submitted resume in the to be published Elison Cook Book without any obligations in any form or liabilities towards you as the submitter. That you submit the resume knowing it will be published including your name and/or story included.

When you submit your recipes please send us your name and email so that we can give you credit for your submission. Please include the following information:
Recipe Name
Servings / prep time if applicable
Ingredients
Directions
Any notes/tips
Your Name / Story of the recipes

Ok and here is a little something the kids can get involved in!

Calling all children between the ages of 2-16. We need you creativity, your ideas, your youthful brilliance to help us design the cover of our first cookbook. Please submit your drawings, photos, ideas, or paintings for our cover. If your design is selected it will be placed on the cover, we include your bio (that's info about yourself) and a picture of you in the cookbook.

You can either email the scanned drawing to Drawing for the Elison Cook Book or you can send them via snail mail to:
The Elison Project, 3707 Bricken Lane, Fredericksburg VA 22408

The deadline to submit your child's drawing to be considered for the cover page of our cook book is August 31, 2009.

The deadline for submitting your recipes is September 15, 2009.

We are very very excited about this project and we can not wait for all the great recipes and fabulous drawings to arrive!!

Shelby McKenzieExecutive Director The Elison Project

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Late last night I returned home from visiting with some very dear and near friends. Friends that have listened to me as I have listened to them, friends that have shared my journey of adoption before and again are with me now as I have followed their journey of adoption and the blessings as well as some of the ups and downs in life. We had the most perfect day for a girl’s day out by Navy Pier in Chicago.
We did a lot of walking lot of talking ate good food, did some brainstorming and team building for Elison and really it was just so nice to have a little break away from it all.

I was tremendously honored, blessed, surprised, taken off guard and speechless by the prayers answered during our gathering, I can’t even describe what went thru my mind. All I could think of was thank you Lord for answering our prayers!!

Sometimes well most of the time its not easy to simply not freak out when times are tuff and life throws rocks into your way but over and over again he has shown us that he is here and that he is watching and that he is not giving up on us and that he sends us angels to lift us up sometimes they come in forms you would have never thought.

So I am grateful for the blessings in my life the health of my children, the roof over our head and the amazing friends my extended family that have made such an impact on our life our journey.

Blessings Angie

“We must become the change we want to see.” M. Gandhi