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Angels among us

I am that girl who has to watch the Bachelor/Bachelorette every season, and no I don't get sick of it ;)  My husband probably does.  He is a good sport though, so every season, it's wine and tv on Mondays at the Cissell's.  This last season, a guy named Drew had a sister who was severely disabled and she was actually part of one of the shows.  As the dad of Drew and the sister was talking to the Bachelorette, he asked her if she believed in angels.  She replied, "well, yeah."  He then asked if she had ever seen one.  Anyways, where I am going with this, is that the dad of the special needs girl was under the full impression, and no one was going to change his mind, that she was an angel put here on Earth to change many people's lives.  As Derik and I watched this episode, we just shook our heads and had tears coming down our faces.  Special needs kiddos/adults are angels.  You don't have to believe Derik or I, or this girl's dad, but if you walked for one day in our shoes you would see what we meant.
With that said, Zoie will be in the Colorado Angel's Pageant on Sunday along with several other special needs boys and girls in Greeley Colorado.  We would have never know about this, except for on our random trip to Ikea this past Spring we ran into a mom who has a daughter with Microcephaly, and she invited us.  Weird how God works huh??!!  We will get her all glamified, and go show her off.  What I am super excited about is networking though.  We will get to meet several other families, in our same situation, or in similar situations.  I am excited for this part, but also super nervous.  It never fails, whenever I tell our story to someone new, or hear someone else's story, I cry.  I will definitely try not to, but it's easier said than done.  When you are strong sometimes there are still tears :)  I will post some pictures after Sunday :)
Derik and I went to a wedding that he was in this past weekend, and we got to enjoy his parent's company.  If you have ever met either one of our dads, you know that they have very soft hearts, and will cry at the drop of a pin.  Derik's dad was telling me he got to meet the neatest family this past week.  He works at Markley Motors, so he sees a lot of people.  He had a couple come in and buy a car, and as they were going over paper work, the couple started asking about Zoie's pictures throughout his office.  I think they may have noticed she looked a little different.  It turns out they have a little girl Zoie's age, who has lisencephaly, which is like Zoie's, only there are no folds around the brain, it's all smooth.  As Rick was telling me about the family, he kept saying how much love they showed/had for that little girl, and he was crying as he told me this.  We stopped the story there because I didn't want to end up crying, but my point is, that God is SO SO good.  How awesome to have connections with people, and share stories about life know matter what is going on in your life.  I love how people are placed in the right lives of others, and the right situations, at the right times.  This is no coincidence, it's God :)
There are so many angels among us, just look around :)

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