Cofradia Mexico 2010

I sent an email to most of you guys about my trip I'm going on in February but I thought i would post the letter here as well for anyone that I may have missed. Also if you got my email and know of someone that might be interested in helping feel free to forward this email onto them. I appreciate any way you can support me and our team. It's going to be an amazing trip and I'm so excited to go! Here is the letter:

Dear Friends and Family,

I hope you all enjoyed your summer! We had a great summer watching our daughter learn to walk and start to talk. It's been so fun! We are so blessed as a family. Now it's time to give back and that's why I'm writing to you. I wanted to tell you about an awesome opportunity that I have. Next February I am going to go on a one week mission trip to Cofradia, Mexico with my church. Cofradia is a small town of about 15,000 people. Most people live in small one room houses that have a dirt floor. During the hot season this isn’t a problem but when the rainy season comes the floor turns to mud which is dirty and can cause a lot of health problems, especially for children. While we are in Mexico we will be building a house for a family in need. I think most of you know that I have a heart for missions so I am really excited about this opportunity but we need your help!!

There are three different ways to that you can support me and our team:

First you can support us through prayer. You can pray for those of us going on the trip. Pray for the family that is going to receive the house. They need to find a piece of land for the house to build on. And pray for their hearts to open to hearing about God.

Second you can support our team through donating to the cost of the building. We need to raise a minimum of $6,000 to build the house but if we raise extra then we can help the family furnish the house as well!

Third you can help me go on the trip! I need to raise $1,300 to go on the trip. I wish I could pay for this out of my pocket but I can’t. If you need your house cleaned, or weeds pulled I would love to work for you in exchange for a donation to my trip. If you are interested in having me work for you let me know so we can schedule a time.

Please pray and ask the Lord if He is asking you to participate with me in this outreach. If you feel you are to donate to the cost of the house please make a check out to “The Creekside Church” with “Mexico Home” in the memo. If you would like to donate to the cost of my trip you can make a check out to “The Creekside Church” with “Sydney Ross Mexico Trip”. All donations are tax deductible and can be mailed to me ( I will give them to the church).


I want to thank you in advance for any way you are able to support me or our team.

Sydney Ross
ruepoo@hotmail.com (please email me for my address if you are interested in donating)

Taylin's 1st Birthday

We are so blessed to have so much family around so we decided to keep the party simple and just invite family and 2 of our close friends...we still ended up having 30 people at the party!! We just had a simple party at Don and Brenda's house with fruit, veggies, punch and cupcakes! It was a fun time. All our family and friends really blessed Tay with exactly what she needed...toys and clothes! Thanks everyone

Here are a few picts from the party!

Lots of new stuff!

So Taylin is constantly changing she has really started talking...she probably has about 10 maybe 15 words. She says mama, dada, hi, hey, nana(banana), go, wow, Oh, byebye, nigh night and a bunch of other words I can't remember right now!

She has been walking now for 2 months so she is really secure in her walking and running abilities. My sister in law had been watching Taylin since I went back to work but is pregnant with her third child so starting September 7th we are moving Taylin to a daycare facility that is basically across the street from my work. I have several friend that take their kids there and they really love the daycare...hopefully Taylin settels in well because she really loves her Aunti and her cousins...we are hoping for a smooth transition because I start back to school in about a month.

Taylin has officially switched from formula to Milk!! What a huge money saver that was!!

Here are a few of my favorite picts from the last couple months

Walking!!

Taylin started walking on Sunday June, 21st(Father's Day) while Tom and I were returning from our trip to Disneyland! Here is a short video of her walking in our living room.

Update

Well it's been awhile since I have updated the blog sorry but life has been crazy!! I am just about to finish this quarter of school I have been taking 3 classes and working full time so I really haven't had anytime to update the blog! Taylin is crawling all over the place! She is really fast and amazes me everyday! She is walking on our furniture and never stops moving!! Over the holiday weekend Taylin got to experience her first camping trip in Ellensburg...the weather was perfect during the day but a bit chilly at night (45 degrees). Here are a few picts from the last couple months.

Pictures

Just a couple new picts

Beautiful Bathing Baby

Taylin loves to have bath time. She has decided that she LOVES them so much that she doesn't want them to end. She cries when the bath is over and unlike most babies she likes having water squirted in her face.