Thursday, March 29, 2012

New Spring Shirts, Jewelry, Bag, and Hat!!!

My girls have been begging me for a 147 shirt of their own!  Now that they have their new spring shirts and jewelry out, I think I will order them one!!  147 Million Orphans will have the new boys shirts ready in a few weeks.  I am excited about all of the new products!  If you are interested in purchasing any, please send me a message.  I will be ordering soon.
Thanks!!!

  147 Tote - $20


 Leather Cuff - $15


  Cuff - $10


 BEAUTY FROM ASHES
                                                        Cobalt Blue Earrings- $20
    


 Summer Baseball - $25


 Youth Tee- $15


 Flower Power Tee- $15


 Khaki Baseball Hat- $20


 Water for 1 Tumbler-  $20
                                                             
Each Purchase helps to build a WELL through Glimmer of Hope in Ethiopia


 Pink 147 - $30



Around the World Tee- $25
(showing flags from countries around the world)




Not only will purchasing these 147 items from us will you be helping us bring our little boy home, but you are also helping so many others in other countries.  With each product that is purchased, money is sent to help FEED children in Uganda, Haiti, Honduras, China and Ethiopia.

Thank you for you support in helping our family bring our little one home.  And thank you for helping many more orphans with your purchase.


 James 1:27 “Pure and lasting religion in the sight of God our Father means that we must care for the orphans and widows in their troubles and refuse to let the world corrupt us.”

Monday, March 19, 2012

Finishing up Paperwork!!!!!

We got a very good suprise today in the mail.  We got our approval letter today from immigration.  We filled out our I-800A paperwork, received our appointment for fingerprints, now we have received our I-797!!! (Those letters and numbers used to mean nothing to me, NOW, they mean A- LOT!!!)
We were not expecting our approval to come so quickly.  We were thinking it would come in a few more weeks.  So, we are about 2 weeks ahead of MY schedule.  (which, you know how my schedule goes... it is not always like everyone else's!) 
We know we are working at God's schedule and in His timing.  HIS timing is always perfect. 
We are just so excited to see God working, and how things are moving quickly.  This is a very long process, with lots of paperwork, stress (on my part), and WAITING.  But it has been so worth it to see God working. 
Little things and Great blessings are happening along the way that continue to show us that GOD is WORKING.

Now that we have our approval, I have to get a few loose ends taken care of.  I need to make sure some paperwork is all signed and ready to go.  I have to make a few copies of some paperwork.  Make sure our passports are ready... and mine came in the other day!!!!!! I was so excited! (you can tell I don't travel much!!! I thought it was sooooo .... cute!  I spent several minutes just staring at the thing!  That moment was also a very exciting moment for me!) 
I also had to gather some pictures to send.  I think I only needed 8 to 10, but I got carried away.  We needed one picture of the front of the house, one of the family, and others of us just living life.  I love my life!!! (They will probably NOT need all of these pictures, but I think I am sending them all anyway!  I really wanted to do more, but I made myself stop!)
Here are our living life photos:  : )







Now, I am off to finish up the rest of the paperwork.  And hopefully I will overnight these wonderful photos along with the paperwork tomorrow.  Then, it will be completely out of my hands.  Our adoption agency will take things from here and send all of our documents to China for us.  Now, the really hard part for us...... to WAIT some more!!!!!


We ask that each of you continue to pray with us for this adoption process.  We are very anxious and very nervous.  We know that God is in control and He has a plan.  He knows our little boy and his needs.  I don't think that I have shared much about his condition on the blog, but many of you know he will need another surgery.  I will share more about this soon.  But for now, God is encouraging us and guiding us.  He has put wonderful people in our path already that have been both and encouragement and a blessing to us as we wait.  We know that God has placed this boy in our lives, and we cannot wait to meet him face to face!

Sunday, March 18, 2012