Jonathon Turns 17!!!

I am still in shock my oldest turned 17 yesterday. He got his room painted in "Steelers" colors - yellow and black...it was a surprise after he got home from work Sunday and Guy had spent the whole day in his room painting. (will post pictures later) It looks great! Then yesterday he got an envelope with some cash which is always a very welcomed thing for a teenager!

We ended the day wtih dinner with the family (all of us my sister and her gang and mom and dad). Tsunami of course, Japanese seems to be a bday tradition around her. The kids love it. At the end of the meal Fred (Jonathon's Uncle) said he would give him $10 to eat a big wad of wasabi (gross!) and then if he could do 50 pushups with it in his mouth and then swallow it he would up that to $50. Jonathon was in. Above is his face with the wasabi.

Let the push ups begin...yes it doesn't matter where we go we seem to draw attention to ourselves. He completed the task in hand and walked out with an extra$50. We walked out with a cramp in our side from all the laughing.
In the meantime Grace noticed all eyes on Jonathon so she moved right over to the birthday cheesecake we ordered for Jonathon and helped herself...too funny.

Grace did save Jonathon a little of his own cake!

Grace's New School Photo

Video of Olivia Counting in English and Chinse...Yes I said Olivia!

OMG folks this will bless your socks off! This is a video I put together of two of my favorite videos I got of Olivia. You are gonna love these. She is for sure a FISHER!

Another Couple Photos

I know I still need to put the videos I got out here but for now, here are 2 more photos I saw on the Eagles Wing blog...this is one happy momma!

A Connection Made By God - Leads To A Mom Whose Cup Overflows!

Where do I start? Thanks to the amazing young woman above pictured with my daughter Olivia I sat in a puddle of tears this week with a heart overwhelmed by the goodness of God. I have to admit this time around has been hard not seeing as many photos as I did with Grace. But this day God over did himself. This young lady and her mom found me on a yahoo group. Alicia is her name and she just came home this month from spending 6 weeks at Eagles Wing with you guessed it, my daughter Olivia! She was about as excited as me to connect with Olivia or as she knows her Gao Jing's momma. Alicia connected with my little one right away and found it hard to leave so to come home and find out who her forever family was had her overwhelmed as well. Truly a God thing!

Not only did she live with and love on and play with and spoil my little girl she was also the photographer during September and October so has photos and videos that she has shared with me...I tell you photo after photo that I saw and video after video my heart was swelling folks! I was falling more and more in love with her.

So let me share with you some of the photos and then I will share the videos later and a little bit more about the personality of my little Olivia through the eyes of Alicia, one of God's angels sent this side of heaven!

This is Olivia wearing the outfit we had in her Halloween Care Package. Alicia got to give it to her. Olivia does not yet know she has a mommy and daddy. She thinks this was from her American sponsor and was very excited opening it. About a month before we travel, Donna at Eagles Wing, will tell her all those boxes that came were from her mommy and daddy that are coming for her. She will also read her the letters we wrote her and share with her the photo album. Donna can't wait for that day, but her best interest right now is for Olivia (she is another one of Olivia's angels) and knows to tell her too soon would be too confusing and cause her to be too anxious.
Alicia took Olivia and a couple other kids out for ice cream. It was tough to find in China but she was determined. From the looks of Olivia's face I would say she liked it!

Is that a beautiful smile or what?

My silly girl

I would say she is gonna fit right in our family wouldn't you?

Beautiful - and I think she likes that bear

Look at that gorgeous smile!

Of course it wouldn't be a picture from China without the peace sign and a bowl of mystery food

Crazy, silly girl

Jiaozuo Orphanage

Jiaozuo Orphanage

Jiaozuo Orphanage

Our Ministry Is Now Up and Running

I wanted to let you know that our ministry website is now complete and I wanted to
invite you to go check it out, take a look around. You have heard me share my
heart, passion and what I believe God’s call on my life is related to reaching
out with a message of hope. I pray it will touch you in some way and speak to
you right where you are at.

www.oaksofrighteousness.info


We will have our first women’s retreat March 30-April 1, 2012. We are so excited about it
and all God has in store. If you are interested or know someone who would be
blessed by it, please sign up or encourage others to sign up soon. You can now
register and pay through pay pal via our website to hold your spot. We are
wanting the retreat to be personal, intimate time and are therefore limiting
registration to 22 women. We will also be doing a second retreat later in the
fall, October 2012.

Let me know if you have any questions as you take a look around and please be praying for us
we embark on this journey of faith.

Blessings,
Dawn Fisher

Its Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas!

Well I actually took NO pictures at Thanksgiving, instead I just enjoyed the time with family and it was great! I so enjoy this holiday because we just get to "BE" with each other. Then me and my mom and sister hit the stores on Black Friday at 5:00am. It is annual tradition and we have so much fun. We enjoyed shopping, good food and ended our afternoon with pedicures to tend to those tired feet. We also laugh til it hurts! I love my family. Even managed a girls night out Saturday night with a good friend who was in town from Florida so us girls had to take advantage of that. Our weekend is coming to a close but not before we did our decorating for Christmas. The Fisher house is now all decorated. We get to sit back and just enjoy it now - my most favorite part! I will tell you though this year was the first time I didn't put any, did you hear me - NOT A ONE - ornament on the tree. The kids did it all themselves! Grace was very into it this year - it blessed this momma for sure. And Guy did a great job of getting all the lights up outside. I love this time of year!

Jonathon was the one who started it all when he asked if he and Grace could decorate the tree - of course was my response!
The he even went outside and helped dad

One of Grace's favorite parts - putting the hooks on the ornaments and handing them off to be hung - Jonathon loved this because we hate to put hooks on.

Her response here - the sun is in my eyes - (when the flash went off)

Oh course what is decorating the tree without taking a candy cane for yourself

About half way in Christian decided he would help

And right before they were wrapping it up Logan joined as well

Not to shabby I would say they did very well....