Join me in sponsoring one of these littles. . .

We are at the Miami airport getting ready to board for Ecuador!

I am so excited to travel with these ladies. . .like SO SO SO excited!
Follow along. . . I know I can’t wait to share!

An amazing first day in Guatemala

This last picture

is what

Sponsorship

looks like. . . .Thankful to be a part of a beautiful time with Ann.

Screaming, Music, Jumping. . . A BIG greeting.

There was Dancing. . .

as Steve & Ryan gracefully and stylishly show

There was Music. . .

There was Ventriloquy or Ventriloquism. . .

( I wrote both words because neither has been used on this here blog and i like those words. . .fancy)

There was a drama that told a beautiful story. . .

And of course, there were beautiful kids filling the room

some older. . .

Some younger. . .

Lots of Kiddos. . .

There was a tour of their building. . .

lead by our college students in the Leadership Development Program

a.k.a one of my fav programs

And there were cutieeees like this little guy.

And this little guy, who just happened to be

A Doctor all day.

Why? because he was dreaming of what he WILL be one day.

There was lots of dreaming. . .

And then for Shannon and Mike, from California and a little girl in Colombia. . .

There was a Gift

A

BIG

GIFT

for them. . .

The Gift of Sponsorship!

You must head on over to Shannon to let her tell you the WHOLE story

and its a

b.e.a.u.t.i.f.u.l

Story!

Bogota , Colombia!

Here’s a little look at our first day AND a look at this beautiful country!!

Can’t wait to share more with you this week. . .

Meet Christian, the cutie in the red!

After each photo I would take of him ( and there were quite a few) he would run over to see the picture on my camera and then exclaim. . .

Bravo… bien…mas photos?

l.o.v.e.d  .  h.i.m

Be sure to follow my fellow tripmates. . .

@ryanoquinn

@jonesbones5 who is blogging over on the jonesbones5 blog

@stephwaldrop

@shawnakirk

@theroyscountry

@kellyburton & @rodburtonmusic

@blainelarsen

@ryanbom

@bigchaff & @solveigmusic

@spimicerio

And @sprimicerio a.k.a Shannon is blogging while we are here too! Check It Out!

We are about to leave for day two here. . .can’t wait to love on some sweet kiddos!

mas photos ( more photos) are on the way!

“Remember The Times
Do You. Do You, Do You,
Do You,
Remember The Times”

So then I had to google that song and listen and watch some youtubes and 15 min later I am back!

Speaking of back. . .back to “Do you Remember” .

I started singing this to myself “Do you Remember the times. . .you used to blog keely oh oh keely oh?” I did . no lie. sang it. . .Out Loud and Proud!

Anyways I do remember and I do miss it! Both blogging and reading blogs. I opened my blog reader for the first time the other day and no lie there were 6,976 unread post in there. I marked all as “read” and was excited to see the new ones the next day and thankful I didnt have a weakness in my obsessiveness to feel the need to read through each . un . read . po . st!!

So here I am starting right back up  . . . fresh!

Since we last talked here’s a lil recap of my happenings. . .

Nashville . The flood

Thankful we did not have any damage in the flood ( We live downtown,but on a hill) however our neighborhood and many many others were badly damaged.

Here’s a quick little video from the morning of the flood in our area. . .

It has been so amazing to see the community of Nashville come together! There are people working endlessly on helping their neighbors rebuild!

It is beautiful!

A few of my Nashville Compassion Co-Workers & friends helping clean up a house!

The flood happened the first weekend in May and early that Sunday morning I had to catch a flight to El Salvador.

So after some tricky driving and back roads I made it to the flight!

It was hard to leave Nashville that morning but we had an amazing trip!

So many new friends and new stories!

ooooo AND how is zip-lining through the mountains of El Salvador for a new experience??

I changed my flight home from El Salvador to make a lil stop in The great state of Texas to visit my mom for Mothers Day!

And one of my best friends Cassie ( from Nashville) was in Houston visiting with her husband Nate AND (extra bonus) her parents from Australia!

Sooo We finally got to have our parents meet and hang. . .

The month of May flew by

and before I knew it We were on a plane headed to Texas for an amazing weekend retreat outside of San Antonio, in the hill country!

We floated in the Frio River

photo courtesy of CassieNash

We Read

We Relaxed

We Watched

We. . .

well I could go on and on but I wont today!

There is a whole post about the weekend on my “need to finish this post” list!

So that is To Be Continued!

And now we are at the end of June.

END OF JUNE.

Craziness!

The end of June is one of my favorite times of the year. . .

The 26th is our anniversary ( happy 6th this year!)

It’s also my daddy-O’s bday!

Happy 60th!!!

Thats a Big Time Bday!!

And Then . . .

The 27th is my Gabey’s bday!

Happy 35th!!!

Also a Big Time Bday!!

And now we are Caught Up!

See? that wasn’t too bad! We are all caught up! Did you stick with me?

Caught Up!

Which is also how I feel in life. . .

Caught Up!

well as caught up as you can be!

The last couple months have been so refreshing and such a great time at home with my cute huz and our fun friends!

Loving these moments!

Hope you are enjoying moments this summer!

and speaking of moments & summer & enjoying. . .

It’s crazy hot this year huh?

I wanted to share some of the beautiful little faces I’ve seen. . . . beautiful!!

There really is no sweeter sound huh?

The Country . . .the Trip. . . The Stories. . .

There is still sooooo much to share. . .

But now I sit in the Miami airport about to board a flight for El Salvador!

I am so excited to visit my friends in El Salvador and see sweet faces like this. . .

She was definitely Ah-Mazing to talk with today. . .I think  you will see why!

Thank You Sponsors – From Compassion International Sponsor kids from keely Scott on Vimeo.

Change a Childs Life . . .

Sorry for the lack of blogging…a couple days after returning home from El Salvador I was off  to Peru getting to see Compassion with some great artists we work with: Mark Roach, Charmaine and Kutless.

It was such an amazing week! I LOVE our country staff there and getting to spend time with them again is so special! We also visited a project I have been to before and I was able to see some friends I made last year. So fun to hear how these girls are doing I walked in a room found all of them hanging out together. It was so great to see them!

Here are a few of my favs from the week in Peru. . .

Then it was home for a few days before heading back to Texas for Thanksgiving!

thanks Taskers for the photo!

We brought our sweet friends The Taskers along. They are from Australia but currently reside in Nashville! We had to make sure they were a. not alone on Thanksgiving and b. had the FULL Thanksgiving experience and what better way then in Texas!

Be sure to check out Cassie’s recap of their time in God’s Country I mean Texas. I didn’t brain wash them yet!

Anyways back to Thanksgiving. . .We headed to Austin for a couple of days to see my Sisters new place and eat Tex-Mex of course! Then it was off to the Country. I haven’t even uploaded photos yet so bad must get on that. . .well I did upload this cheery one. . .

Hellooo Christmas! and Mrs. Clause too!

So after kickin back and relaxin. . .I am back HOME! and its time to get back to work and blogging and photo edits! phew!

more to come lovelies. . .