YARD SALE!!!!!

Event: Yard Sale

Date: April

Location: maybe our house 

For: our adoption (all proceeds go directly to this)

It's that time! We have started getting things ready for the big Yard Sale but in order to have one we need stuff to sell.  Dustin and I will happily take your Goodwill pile off your hands. As you start thinking about your spring cleaning please remember us.  We will gladly come pick your stuff up. You can either leave a comment on here, Facebook, or email me.

 I can't wait to see this storage unit full of another man's treasures!

Amazing!!

This is one of my favorite blogs that I read, it's so amazing how God is using Katie and I am so glad she is sharing the journey with us.  I was truly touched by her blog today and hope it touches you as well.




http://kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com/2011/01/today-we-remember.html

I can't wait to be a mommy for the second time to our sweet Ethiopian prince!!

Why Ethiopia?

This is a video I found that another family created for their adoption.  It's really neat and since I haven't said much about why we chose Ethiopia I wanted to share. It pretty much says it all!

Fund Raising/1st Homestudy Visit

THE LORD WILL PROVIDE!!
We have had our shirts for two weeks now and I am blown away by how fast they are selling.  Within  the first week we had sold over half of our shirts (we ordered 100)!! We have 38 shirts left coming up on the end of week two and I just can't believe it.  We are just so overwhelmed by everyone's generosity and support.  Every single penny makes a difference!

People have been so generous in their giving! We have received about $300 in donations above the shirt sales.


Our first home study visit was Tuesday night.  It went really well.  We meet at Panera Bread and pretty much turned in a lot of paper work and answered a few questions.  Our social worker is so sweet.  I thought I was going to be nervous but she is great.  It was nice to talk with her about the process and get  more information.  I have my individual meeting Wednesday and Dustin's is Friday.  We are trying to get it done as soon as possible so we can get our I600 submitted. 

Shirts Are In!!!

For our first fundraiser to bring our little boy home we are selling some awesome shirts. I am so excited about them!  One of my friends Lauren Murrell designed the shirts for us and did such a GREAT job.  Dustin and I are so impressed.  Then one of my friends from high school, Meagan Griffith actually printed them for us.  I'm so glad God put talented friends in my life. Thanks Lauren and Meagan!  So now for what we've all been waiting for.....

We are selling adult long sleeve shirts and a limited number of adult short sleeves.  We have small, medium, large, and x-large in long sleeve and a few xx-large in the short sleeve.

If you are interested in helping support our adoption in this way order NOW because we have a limited number of shirts available.  Long Sleeve shirts are $25 and short sleeve shirts are $20.  All the proceeded go directly to help fund our adoption.

To get yours post a comment here first (with your name and the size you need) I will then confirm that we have the size, and you can either pay me with cash, check or make your payment via the paypal "DONATE" button in the right sidebar.  MAKE SURE YOU LET ME KNOW WHAT SIZE SHIRTS AND YOUR ADDRESS IF YOU NEED ME TO MAIL IT TO YOU.  If you live out of the Nashville area we can work out shipping charges.  If you live in the area, I can meet you!


I am looking forward to seeing everyone out there sporting these great shirts!!!

Paaaaaaaaaaaaper Work

We are full speed ahead with our paperwork now with the Holidays behind us.  We were able to do a couple things last week since Dustin had some time off and we could go during the day. Here are the boys while we were waiting on our marriage and birth certificates.

So far we have completed our online training, gotten our marriage and birth certificates, passports and  have our physicals scheduled for next week. Not to bad for the first few days.  The paper chase is not as hard as I imagined, because I know that each item we get completed moves us that much closer to bringing our son home.  I'll do whatever it takes!