A Bevy of Boys: LOVE LOVE LOVE this artist!!

Friday, April 23, 2010

LOVE LOVE LOVE this artist!!

This is an art piece by Amy Smith, an amazing mom in the adoption community who is doing these personalized watercolor paintings in an effort to raise money for her family's Ethiopian adoption. I sent her pictures of everyone in my family and this is what I got:

How awesome is that?? If you're interested in an original Amy Smith, her website is:

www.fundraisingforouradoption.blogspot.com

5 comments:

KatApril 23, 2010 at 11:19 AM
SOOOOO cute! What a neat fundraiser too!!! Of course your family is beautiful so that's IMPOSSIBLE to mess up too!! :)
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KendellApril 23, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Absolutely darling!!! I cannot stop laughing about Ian's "crazy-boy" hair!!! It is SO him! LOVE IT!!! Now I need one!
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RuthanneApril 23, 2010 at 7:55 PM
I LOVE her work! Having a picture done by her is on my list of things to do....very soon.
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amy smithApril 25, 2010 at 10:56 AM
ok.. and now i officially love you even more than i did before :)
also.. stalking you now.
thanks again
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RebeccaApril 27, 2010 at 6:34 PM
I'm going to have one of these done for our family once we find out who baby #2 is!

Love that you have a little Eli from Ethiopia as well! We live in OKC - so not too far from you guys at all!
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Why Ethiopia?

In Ethiopia, approximately 1 in 10 children die in infancy, and nearly double that number die by their 5th birthday, due to infections, tetanus and diarrhea. Ethiopia is considered the 3rd worst place in the world to be born, better only than Burkina Faso and Djibouti. Of the children who survive, many will lose their mother in childbirth and many more will lose one or both parents to HIV/AIDS.

As more and more parents die, the capacity of extended family members to take care of orphans shrinks. Ethiopia has reached the breaking point where orphaned children are now forced into the streets, into difficult working conditions and/or into heading their households.

In 2001, 13.2% of the population, 3.8 million children, was orphaned. In comparison, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda resulted in 500,000 orphans and the 2004 Tsunami in Southeast Asia resulted in 10,000 orphans. In 2006, American parents adopted only 731 orphans. 3,799,269 orphans remain vulnerable.

(courtesy of www.ethiopianrelief.org)

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