The Shrum Family Adventures: A Little Christmas Fun!

Thursday, December 18, 2008

A Little Christmas Fun!

We drove down to Sumter, SC on Saturday night to Swan Lake to see a fantastic light show. Best part it is free! Here are a few pictures from that. I took more pictures but I was driving and they turned out blurry. Every weekend in Dec. we try to do something Christmas related. This weekend we are going to the Light Before Christmas at the Columbia, SC Zoo. We took the kids when Sara Ava first came home but Lilee has not been yet. She is really into the lights. She screams " lights, lights or Christmas!!"

4 comments:

Hannah said...: That looks like a lot of fun. We have a little light fun planned for this weekend...

Have a great weekend!

Hannah; December 18, 2008 at 9:00 PM
Vanessa said...: I really need to get on the ball and take my kids see the lights too because they LOVE them!!; December 19, 2008 at 6:06 AM
The Hardy Family said...: When are you coming for the lights at the zoo?? We are headed there tonight!!; December 19, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Mama Bear said...: What a lot of fun. Our kids love seeing all the lights too. Beautiful............; December 19, 2008 at 11:02 PM

Verses that really spoke to me and helped me get through our adoptions.

(John 14:18) " I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you."

(Isaiah 43:5-6) "Do not be afraid, for I am with you,
I will bring your children from the west. Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth."

(Proverbs 25:25) "As cold water is to a thirsty soul : so is good
news from a far country."

(Matthew 6:25-34) The do not worry chapter.
This is the chapter that told me we would adopt again and the
baby girl woud be named Lily (Lilee). "The lilies of the field".
This is a great reminder of why we should not worry, God will take care of his people!

(Psalms 82: 3-4) "Defend the cause of the weak and the fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Resue the weak and neady; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."

(Psalms 68: 5) "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling."

(Deuteronomy 10:18) " He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow and loves the alien, giving them food and clothing."

(Philippians 4:13) "I can do all things through him who gives me strength."

(Philippians 4:6-7) " Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present
your request to God. And the peace of God,which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

(Romans 8:28) " And we know that all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

(James 1:27) "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after the orphans and widows in their destress, and to keep oneself from being polluted from by the world."