Look around you doris....cause your future is about to change

OK, so i know i haven't updated lately, or enough, or enough lately, sorry lol i get caught up in life and well, thats pretty much it.  So California is fun, can't believe we have been here for a year, we won't be here too much longer which is crazy.  the boys are so different than when we left home.  They have grown so much and things are SO much different than they were before.  Our adoption is going along wonderfully right now.  I can't wait until i can show the world our beautiful daughter that we are being blessed with!  we are now in the lengthy waiting process....waiting for funding.....waiting for papers.....waiting for the dossier to process.....waiting for the i800a to be approved so when they do have the dossier processed we can proceed....waiting for them to officially approve us for her...(we only have a conditional match still).....waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting....but that is the life of a paper pregnancy...just like a real on....waiting waiting waiting waiting....though this gestation is longer than 9 months ha!   we are in the process of applying for a LOT of grant money because that is what we need.........we also just signed up with amazon associates so we can get a percentage of a profit from sales off of amazon.  we have a couple of fundraisers now with this.  we still have the puzzle fundraiser that is about half full and now this! if you would PLEASE consider helping with one of these! every little bit helps! we greatly appreciate this!  life is otherwise busy, josh is studying away and will graduate at the end of october....we will then part ways for another 4 months and i will return to charleston while he completes additional training and we are in between stations.  hopefully in that time we will be able to go get gracie and then move on to the next place (also hoping to find that out soon too!) the Lord has some awesome plans for us!!!!!

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and HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Listen to the sound of the Hope thats rising

If any of you have ever heard Building 429 they are an amazing group that has a way with words.  So this adoption is in full swing.  we have been accepted by the agency and are working to do our homestudy and push forward but as you all know that takes a significant chunk of money. So in our efforts to do so we have begun a few different fundraisers to help and let me tell you if you don't believe in God or his desires to care for his own i can fight you to the death and throw example after example of his desires for our family.  adoption has always been something josh and i wanted to do in the efforts to expand our family.  we never knew why but it just always was.  we knew we wanted an international adoption, just something in our hearts a shared passion.  when it came down to it we picked a country.  we chose to do an adoption from Hong Kong.  people are asking us why?  The only answer I can honestly come up with is WHY NOT!  i don't have an answer but i know its out path.  God has a way of telling everyone what is their path if you listen.  Everyone is different but i swear i hear him.  They way i hear him is as clear as words from a friend spoken to me.  it may only be a word or a phrase but I hear it plain as day when he wants me too.  when we were in church a month ago and i swear surrounded by Asian children (and all girls i kid you not) i was looking around saying wow this is weird.  how can this be.  and i hear the words "ITS TIME" in my head.  i looked up startled and i hear it again.  i looked around me stunned and its like every little head happened to look at me.  it was like a scene from a movie.  I do not like to cry in public, in fact most of you that know me know that i don't like to cry at all, but I began to cry and josh looked at me and just knew what was going on in my head.  I don't know how he knew it, but he looked at me and said, its time isn't it.  It was so weird and maybe WAY overplayed in my head (like the kid with the fish story of how big it has grown......) anyways, People have come out of the wood works with efforts to help us raise money for this cause and i am being humbled beyond belief.  friends holding photo shoots, others hosting mary kay parties with all their proceeds going to us, 31 parties, donating to fill this puzzle, an now one of my best friends has ON HER OWN i might add, bought bracelets to sell just because she loves us and wants to help us bring this little girl home to us.  Once again this morning i fell to me knees and burst into tears with the love i am feeling (even 3000 miles from so many that love us) and Gods provision.  I swear to you, every time I stress about how we will raise all this money and afford to bring this little girl home to us that my heart aches for every day, she is waiting for us i believe it......God will just shout at me "SHUT UP" i hear it again plain as day.  He is sitting beside me holding my hand and my heart just telling me....You are doing my will my love, you are doing as i wish of you....i know its hard, and this feels like mt everest some times, so many factors will play into this seemingly impossible task you undertake....but I can make EVERYTHING happen.  I will not give you more than you can handle and I will not give you more at one time than you need.  Please trust me.  and I do, and I will.  I thank god for everyone who loves us, I will never feel i deserve it all.  The love I have from my friends is so strong I pray everyone has friends like me.  They are my rewards that i cherish on a daily basis and I thank God for all of you, i really do.  Thank you for all you do just loving us and helping us, it really means so much to us we can NEVER express our love or gratitude.  i guess thats why i write it down, i feel words make it more permanent.  I learned the value of the written word when Josh was gone, and it is truley my wish you all know the value of this.  Thank you is all i can say. 

Falling down the rabbit hole

ok so i know its been like 5/6 months since i wrote on here....but this is gonna blow some of you away.  well as many of you know i have decided biological children were not worth risking being pregnant again, due to several complications and issues i had during both pregnancies tho not really aired or voiced at the time due to personal reasons, i felt it wasn't a good idea to risk having more kids and wasnt fair to the two wonderful boys i have now.  if something happend to me due to my selfish reasons i would never forgive myself!  however it was up in the air if we wanted more kids at all or 2 was plenty to keep me busy lol.  well with all this stuff with josh and our new lives we realized we weren't finished.  adoption has always been a HEAVY burden on my heart since i was a little girl, i meet a girl in elementary school who once told me no one liked her because she wasn't normal she was adopted, i remember from a young age how sad i felt about that and that I thought she was quite possibly the coolest kid in the world because her parents picked her out.  her parents got to CHOOSE their child!  her parents were given this child! it in my heart isn't much different than the two children chosen for me and my family.  We also know that we want to adopt a little girl.  i wont lie i love my boys so much and i love the dirt and grim and goofy nasty roughhousing of them, but i love princesses and bows and big flowers and pretty dresses too!  (however most wouldn't understand that as I hardly wear dresses myself!)  But the time has come the answer is clear we are now pursuing the adoption trail.  i know it can be long and its not easy or cheap and i also know we will be asking a lot of prayers and support from some of you or all of you, but this is the path God has set us on and we know he will provide and care for us and help us on this new journey we are so excited to join in on and have you all with us.  i know there is a child waiting for me out there waiting for a family to love her er and brothers to protect her and parents to kiss her and tell her how loved and beautiful she is.  some will think we are crazy, others will think its great.  trust me i know its a lot to think of and a lot to take on but i know its what i am to do and will let nothing stop me! 2013 is going to be a big year....i just know it....so wish us luck and lots of prayers and know you will be hearing from us! 

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