Referral Anniversary!

October 8, 2008

October 8, 2009

Strawbabies

Yard Sale....Fundraiser!!!

This past Friday and Saturday, May 15 & 16 we had a yard sale with some of our stuff along with some things given to us by family and one of my best friends......God is sooo good! We raised $1,587.15!!!! I am amazed! I've had lots of yard sales in the past and had lots of stuff, but never made this much! We have lots left over and will be planning another weekend sale in June!


On another note....we got an email from our home study agency on Friday.....


Hello,We have finally gotten somewhere. My Regional Manager has reviewed the materials and sees no reason why we cannot move ahead. I have just three minor questions I have been requested to ask the adoption agency. If they are okay, we are okay.

Pending their answers, contract development should begin next week.:-)

Have a great weekend.

So we're thrilled to be making some head way on this! I never imagined it would take so long for the agencies to come to agreements. Oh well this is all in the Lord's timing, not ours. I am however very excited to start this dossier!!! Soon very soon!

Resurrection Sunday!

Robin & Noelle

Noelle I think was yelling...."hurry up mom, it's freezing out here!" I think the temp was like 30 something. It snowed for a few minutes it that gives you an idea ;)

Maine...gotta love it!

FIRST FUNDRAISER!

We are doing our first fundraiser to help bring Jonah home!

My friend Angel is a Lia Sophia advisor and she is willing to give up her ENTIRE commission (30%) to help bring him home! Thank you Angel!

Who knows how the Lord will provide...maybe with a bunch of ladies who love jewelry :)

Ok...here's how it will work....

1. Click HERE this will take you to Angel's Lia Sophia website.

2. Click on OUR JEWELRY found on the top of the page.

3. Click on Spring/Summer Catalog

4. Click on How To Purchase....this is a tap just above the right side of the catalog page. This will give you a spot to type in hostess name.....Tonya Davis

5. SHOP!

On April 11 I'll be hosting a show at my home with all my local friends and we'll put all the orders in at that time. Then we'll mail you your beautiful jewelry!

I feel a little awkward mentioning this but I'll get over myself and my pride and just let you know one more thing. Something that I believe the Lord has taught me is sometimes he wants us to humble ourselves and let others know of a need that we/they/you may have. Then it gives us/them/you the opportunity to be used by Him to bless another. So with that I've had a suggestion from a couple sweet bloggy, adoptive mom friends. They said they would rather just donate a certain amount than to buy jewelry so I have added a CHIP IN (on Jonah's blog) to the side bar so if anyone would rather do that they can.

We love you all and thank you for joining us in prayer to bring Jonah home! It will be an amazing testimony of how the Lord provides!

One more thing....We thought we wanted to adopt a BABY boy age 0-12 months.....well the Lord is stirring our hearts and we're thinking more like 2-4 years old! How fun would that be! Noelle may just be getting an older brother perhaps or one her age! This should be interesting! Stay tuned!

I want to give a SHOUT OF THANKS to some of my sweet bloggy friends who are willing to help get some "outside" orders! Thank you so much Amy, Angie and Tina! Lenka thank you for ordering!

Sheree reads to Noelle

This is the first book she has written! She hoping to get some exposure in hopes to get it published.

Another sweet morning with our little Noelle

This is what I was talking about the other day ; )

Here she comes with all her teddies PLUS this morning she also brought her two babies! What an arm full!

She's all settled to watch her morning episode of Ni Hao - Kia lan with all her friends.

This was taken a few days ago. We have begun potty training. This was after she peed in the potty and received an m&m!

Noelle at night.

I thought I heard Noelle around Four this morning and when I peeked into the hall I this is what I saw : ) Who knows how long she had been sleeping there? I had to take a picture before I put her back in bed. She ALWAYS has to sleep with her not one, but THREE pink teddies and her cup of water. When she wakes up in the morning she comes walking out into the living room carrying all of this!

Jonah's Blog

We started a blog a little while ago for Jonah's adoption.

I haven't posted too much yet...lots of scripture and personal thoughts and prayers while Mike and I were seeking the Lord for direction.
If you want to follow along with us on this exciting journey to click here.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!

It will be six weeks ago tonight that Mike had a very restless night. Every time he would doze off he would see letters that appeared to be a word, but not one he recognized.....BANAU. Early Friday morning while having his devotions he decided to Google banau to see if it was a word, and if it was what it meant. Turns out it is a small village in the Parbat district of Nepal. Hmmmm, now why would he dream about a village in Nepal?

We decided that we would take a look and see if there was an adoption program over there. After googling that we saw that they had just opened their doors in October of 2008. Again interesting....hmmmm.

Psalm 16:7 (New Living Translation)
I will bless the Lord who guides me; even at night my heart instructs me.

We have known that we would adopt again, but just assumed it would be China again and we were unsure about the time we would start. We have had the discussion as to whether or not we would mark on our application boy or girl or either. While we were looking over the requirements for Nepal it stated that if you have a son and daughter you would not be qualified to adopt. If you have boys you would only be able to adopt a girl. If you have girls....you guessed it....you would have to adopt a BOY!

So we were wondering if the Lord gave him this dream to lead us to into this country for a son? It's a long but wonderful story, one I hope to share with you at some point, but after six weeks of really seeking the Lord we KNOW he is calling us to Nepal for our son Jonah! Yes we already know his name! That's another story for another day!

We are very excited to see how the Lord is going to provide and bring us through another amazing journey of adoption...this time for a SON!

Noelle one year later....

Our First Gotcha Anniversary!!!

We love you Noelle!

**I will post pictures of our day tomorrow along with an update**

Merry Christmas!

Miss Behavin

No children were spanked in the following photo documentary.

Subject readies self for devious act.

Subject caught red-handed.

Subject pleads for amnesty.

Subject makes last ditch effort to show remorse.

Subject comes to grips with forthcoming punitive action and takes it like a big girl.

Noelle looks the way she does because she once again has a cold. Poor baby. I hope she's feeling better for her first Christmas home.

The pink pants she's wearing she pulled out of a "special" drawer that has all her gotcha day things, clothes in. Well she apparently found the drawer and pulled these out. We bought this in China because we didn't have a snowsuit for her and it was VERY cold! Anyway that was January of this year and the pants still fit her the same. She hasn't grown too much in one year : ) She's still a little peanut.

I have to say even when she has a cold or is sick she is still sooo cute!!!

Daddy and Noelle

Noelle meets Jing

I finally took Noelle NiShuai to the Bangor Chinese School to meet Jing.

Jing translated the letter we sent to China in Noelle's care package.

Noelle had lots of fun playing with her two new toys, a drum and tassel. She tried to count to ten in Chinese but only made it to three : )

We had a nice visit and hope to bring her back when she's a little older for Chinese lessons.

I am so disappointed in my fellow American citizens for electing Obama, but...

This is the day that the LORD has made, I will (make a choice) rejoice and be glad in it.

Giving Mama kisses

Giving Dada kisses

Finally....Noelle's message to everyone....

GO VOTE!!!