Another option!!!

We are excited to add another t-shirt design 

to our fund raising!!! 

Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance 

about what we do not see.

Hebrews 11:1

FAITH - is Laynee's middle name!

The poppy flowers on the front have special meaning too.

Miles "John" is named after my father,

who was called to heaven before meeting 11 of his 12 grandkids.

But they all know him by his grandpa nickname of "poppy".

This scripture verse is one of my favorite verses.

Though we don't know God's plan, 

we can be assured that HE is in control

and has a plan

far beyond what we could think of. 

Like our Superman tee's we will be holding our first round of sales until June 1st.

And have a goal of 75 tee's for each design!

The Faith tee's can be ordered in regular fit or fitted.

Superman tee's are only regular fit.

They are both soft fabric tee's, very comfortable!

Thank you for your support!

http://www.gofundme.com/layneeandmiles

Superman was adopted!!!

We are so excited to announce our 

t-shirt fundraiser!!!

Isn't that so cool!!

Fund the Nations has done an amazing job

of designing this for us!! 

You can go to our 

Gofundme account 

http://www.gofundme.com/esb2iw

to place your order,

and make your donation.

Our goal is 75 shirts by June 1st!

Thank you so much for helping us bring our babies home!!

We are so grateful for each and every gift!!

To God be the glory!

Ohhhh my goodness!!!

They are just too cute!!!

One Love Tee's

We have a few One Love Tee's still available!!

We have cut the cost the cost of each tee to $12 -

$10 for the tee 

and $2 for shipping! 

Thank you for helping us bring our precious daughter home!

These are the sizes we have!

Kids 

Large  (14-16) - we have 2 available

Adults

Large - we have 8 available

Thank you so much for helping us!

Every penny counts to the life of our daughter!

you can donate by using the Paypal button on the right side of our blog,
or you can email me at soccermom@tx.rr.com 
and we can set up a payment that is works for you. 

Huge step forward!

Wow! What a day!

We were able to hang out at a park in Denver,

and see some old friends,

and make some new friends.

The adoption agency we used to bring Donovan and Elijah home had 

their annual summer picnic this weekend! 

We were so happy that we were in town and could join 

them all.

There was Ethiopian music and dancing...

 A traditional coffee ceremony,

Jailyn found the coffee fascinating!

and...

boys 

 well...

being boys!

Not everything about today was easy for my boys.

Some things brought back feelings of pain 

and abandonment.

 This was a HUGE step for them.

I am so proud of them for facing this day 

and am so thankful they are in my arms!

and the winner is...

The TARGET $200 gift card winner is:

TAYLOR BREWER!!!!

Congratulations Taylor!

Thank you to all of you who donated to our last fund raiser! 

Y'all raised over $1700!

Thank you sooooo very much!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!
From our beautiful 

Chinese Princesses!

and remember only 2 more days for our
TARGET gift card give-a-way!

The last of our fundraising  -
cause we are going to China very soon!
Praise God!

Psalms 37:4 
"Delight yourself in the Lord and
 HE 
shall give you the desires of your heart."

5 days to go...

5 days before we draw for the 

$200 gift card from TARGET!!!!

We only have 2 more weeks to $8000!

I know God will do this! 

HE hasn't brought us this far to leave us now!

You may add your donation to our Chip-In on the sidebar

titled Bring our boys home

(you can also email or facebook me for other options)

 This FUNdraiser ends Feb 13th!

A donation of $10 gets you 1 chance

A donation of $20 gets you 2 chances

and so on and so on...

And just for fun...

share our fund raiser on your facebook or blog 

and you and you get another chance to win!

(remember to let me know if you share - 

I don't want to miss anyone!)

Thank you to everyone who has supported us through

this adventure!

We are so thankful to each and everyone of you! 

and don't forget - 

if you prefer to support our friends

Clayton and Connie

or

Rey and Shelly

or 

Thomas and Kat

please do - 

let me know and I will add you to our give-a-way!

THE FUNd BOWL

Some people just amaze me! 

This amazing lady has begun a way for adoptive parents to 

fundraise for all the crazy fee's that

are needed to bring their precious kiddos home.

We were introduced by a mutual friend 

and look what Dalas came up with to 

help us, complete strangers,

to raise the last of our funds...

THE FUND BOWL

The Game

Let’s play some Fund Ball!  Here’s how our Fund Bowl is going down…

To win Fund Ball, you have to guess the final total score of the Super Bowl game being played on Sunday night.  The guess that is closest to the actual final score wins!

Here’s the FUNd twist!  You must earn points to wager a guess.  To earn points – donate to a “player” (AKA: one of our benefiting families!)  For every dollar in donations you give you will receive one point to use in your guesses.

Spreading the love earns you more points!  If you donate at least $6 to each family you score a TOUCHDOWN and we will double your points!  If you share on Facebook or Twitter you will get an EXTRA POINT – or one point each!  If you blog about our Fund Bowl you will earn a FIELD GOAL – or 3 extra points!

But remember, unlike Football, the person with the most points does not necessarily win Fund Ball!  Your goal is to correctly guess the final total score of Sunday night’s game.  You can make as many or as few guesses as you want!  But you can only guess as many points as you have earned.  I will give you an example and then – get ready to play!!

If I donated $10 to each family I would get 20 points for $20 of donations.  If I also blog and share on Facebook, that’s an extra 4 points.  I now have 24 points total PLUS I scored a touchdown by giving to both families.  My points are doubled to 48!  I can use my points to make one guess of 48 OR I can make two guesses of 24 OR I can make a guess of 18, a guess of 10 and a guess of 20.  As long as all my guesses together are equal or less than my points earned, it’s fair game!

FOR OUR FOOTBALL CHALLENGED PLAYERS:  You can play too!  To put you on par with our other guests, here are some things to keep in mind:

- the Super Bowl is the championship game of the “American Football” game.

– The lowest possible combined total score is 2-0 or 2 points.

– The average total score of Super Bowl games in the last ten years is 45 points.

– The highest scoring Super Bowl in history was 75 points.

Go check it out -and make your Superbowl bet!

THE FUND BOWL

Entry must be made prior to kickoff Sunday evening at 6:30pm!

Thank you Dalas for helping us!

Painted Canvas

Cause I am pacing and pacing,
refreshing my email for an update
from our agency probably every 5 minutes!

Driving my family nuts 

as we wait to hear from our adoption agency 

about our Travel Approval...

any day now! 

I decided to do some more painting -

and I thought I'd see if any of you would like

one or two.

They are painted 8x10 canvas

I can paint these colors or if you have a special

color scheme you prefer 

I would love to make a special one
with your child's name
for you!

$20 (+$5 shipping)

and don't forget our 

$200 Target gift card Give-a-way on the side bar!

Shakin' it up a bit!

Okay -

so just for fun

I thought I would shake this 

FUNdraising thing up a bit! 

We have three other super, good friends

who are also fundraising to bring their 

precious children home!

Soooo,

here's the twist - 

if you donate to one of their fundraising efforts,
or ours -

I will add you to the $200 Target gift card give-a-way!

Just let me know that you donated -
(they all have donation buttons on their blogs)

make sure you leave your name for one or all of my friends,

I will confirm with my friends,

and then will add you to the give-a-way!

Easy, peasy!

Let's get these precious kiddo's home!!!

Now let me introduce y'all to my friends! 

Family #1

Shelly and hubby Rey,

are adopting sweet, sweet Liam from Korea.

 Family #2

 Our friends,

Connie and Clayton 

are bringing home princess Khloie from China!

We are hoping to travel together! 

Watch out China - here we come!

Last but not least - 

Family #3

my friend Kat and her hubby Thomas!

They are adopting precious Jonathan 

from Russia! 

Thank you for helping us and our friends bring 

their precious children home.

Home where they will be loved and secure!

I can't thank you enough!!!

Sooooo close!!!!

We are so close to our boys now we can hardly stand it!

There are moments days that I just sit and gaze at their faces!
I just can't wait to hear their voices,
to giggle with them,
 to hold them,
 to love on them!

We are sooo ready to just jump on a plane

and tell the powers that be in China -

to just give us our boys.

But... unfortunately, adoption doesn't work that way! 

So instead,

we will do one last fundraiser!

(I hope!)

A $200 Target gift card give-a-way!

Now who wouldn't like this?

You may add your donation to our Chip-In on the sidebar

titled Bring our boys home

(you can also email or facebook me for other options)

 This FUNdraiser ends Feb 13th!

A donation of $10 gets you 1 chance

A donation of $20 gets you 2 chances

and so on and so on...

And just for fun...

share our fund raiser on your facebook or blog 

and you and you get another chance to win!

(remember to let me know if you share - 

I don't want to miss anyone!)

 

Thank you to everyone who has supported us through

this adventure!

We are so thankful to each and everyone of you! 

A HUGE thank you!

Wow! 

I dont' even know what to say! 

There are sometimes on life's journey when you meet people

that change your life,

you thought you were doing good -

and then God places some incredible people 

in your path -

instant friendships are made

(okay, so maybe my obnoxious snort laugh

 had something to do with it,

or maybe it was the pain meds I was on from 

my spinal surgery,

but still... )

Thomas and Kat are those kind of people -

and this week they have chosen to help us 

raise our last $9000 to bring Hagan and Griggs home! 

Check out the interview on Kat's blog:

Everlasting Momentum 

And check out their story of their newest son,

still waiting for them,

but they are working as fast as possible to bring 

sweet Jonathan home!

Thank you Kat and Thomas! 

Amazed and thankful!

We have been amazed and we are so very
thankful to y'all for coming to our rescue!

Soooo many of you have given to us,

to help us bring our boys home!

We are sooo close to meeting

and bringing them home - 

I can hardly stand it! 

I'm thinking these two goof balls...

 are going to fit in just perfectly

with this wacky crew!

$10,000 in 30 days

Best case scenario, 

we leave to meet our boys in 30 days! 

I can't even believe it! 

F.I.N.A.L.L.Y.

God has raised $35,000 in 10 months.

And we are asking if y'all would help us with 

the remaining $10,000 needed.

We only need 1,000 people to 

donate $10.
You can use our donate button on the right side of our blog.

and then,

 if you could share our blog with others
through your blogs or on your facebook,
 just word of mouth, snail mail
smoke signals, mores code -
whatever form of communication you prefer,

we would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you so much!
I hate fundraising sooooo very much!
I hate asking for help at all.

But I hate that children live without
the love of a family even more.
God has humbled me in so many ways during
our journey to Hagan and Griggs.

To God be the glory!

"My friends, adoption is redemption.
 It's costly, exhausting, expensive, and outrageous. 
Buying back lives costs so much. 
When God set out to redeem us, it killed Him."
- Derek Loux

Coffee, anyone?

If you are anything like me

~

you like your morning, afternoon, and evening coffee! 

What could make it easier then this coffee maker!

Sooo fun! 

We have been blessed to be able to offer this Keurig Coffee maker 

and yummy coffees

for this raffle give-away!

(coffees included are boxes of Carmel Vanilla Cream, Donut Shop, French Vanilla,

and Southern Sweet Tea!)

This fundraiser will run November 14th - November 28th - 9pm (central time zone)

For chances to win:

-  For a $10 donation you will be entered once

     -  another entry for every additional $10 donation.

    -  Each face book post will get you entered once,

    -  Every blog post will get you entered once also!

(please leave a comment or email me letting me

 know of your postings)

To donate you can use our donate button on our side bar -

and in the comments section please add your name 

and Keurig.

or you can email me for other options.

Thank you for helping us bring our sweet little guys home!

Hagan's 5th birthday is coming up at the end of the month -

I am soooo hoping for new photos! 

"You must be RICH!"

This is one of the frequent comments we get from 

friends and strangers alike. 

Everyone knows that adoption, domestic and international,

has it's financial fee's. 

Fee's that seem astronomical when one first looks into adoption.

And after four adoptions,

we have gotten this comment even more now.

and the popular,

"What does your husband do?"

And though, 

I'd love to say -

"yes, we are rich!"

That is not the case. 

Bryan has a wonderful job with a great company,

he works his tail off 

and is a great provider for our family! 

And well,

had we stopped adding to our family at 

Kenzie or even Conner -

we would probably be rich.

(Monetarily speaking.)

We do have an incredible inheritance though!

You see, 

our Father owns cattle on a thousand hills! 

Oh, yes HE does! 

And when HE asks us to step out in faith,

HE carries us all the way! 

Asking us to allow HIM to provide for us,

 his children.

Don't let the scary $ signs of adoption 

scare you away. 

Pray and pray!

He owns the cattle on a thousand hills,
The wealth in every mine;
He owns the rivers and the rocks and rills,
The sun and stars that shine.
Wonderful riches, more than tongue can tell -
He is my Father so they're mine as well;
He owns the cattle on a thousand hills -
I know that He will care for me.

Words and Music by John W. Peterson

Psalm 50:10
"For every beast of the forest is mine,
and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

Get your verse on!

Only 5 more days to get your verse on!

Order your Wild Olive Tee 

and Wild Olive will make a donation to our adoption!

It's a win! win! 

Just  go here and add ANDERSON927 to the coupon code

when you are shopping! 

Thank you!!

I don't know what my fall wardrobe would look like without 

my Wild Olive! 

Must have coffee!

If you are anything like me
~

you like your morning coffee! 

And though I don't have one of these -

I do love going to friends homes 

who have one!

They are so fun! 

We have been blessed to be able to offer this Keurig Coffee maker 

and yummy coffees

for this raffle give-away!

(coffees included are boxes of Carmel Vanilla Cream, Donut Shop, French Vanilla,

and Southern Sweet Tea!)

This fundraiser will run November 14th - November 28th - 9pm (central time zone)

For chances to win:

-  For a $10 donation you will be entered once

     -  another entry for every additional $10 donation.

    -  Each face book post will get you entered once,

    -  Every blog post will get you entered once also!
(please leave a comment or email me letting me
 know of your postings)

To donate you can use our donate button on our side bar -

and in the comments section please add your name 

and Keurig.
or you can email me for other options.

Thank you for helping us bring our sweet little guys home!
Hagan's 5th birthday is coming up at the end of the month -
I am soooo hoping for new photos! 

2 more days!!!

We are having a wonderful Craft Bazaar in town!

Our wonderful vendors have donated their booth rental fee's

to help bring our sweet boys home!

We are praying for lots of shoppers to help 

our wonderful vendors have a successful day! 

(so, y'all who aren't local and unable to join us - 

please pray for us on Saturday.)

Getting Ready...

For locals! 

We'd love to have you join us for our Craft Bazaar 

benefiting 

two precious boys! 

Hagan and Griggs! 

November 10th

10am - 4pm 

at 

Faith Bible Church office

2417 Virginia Pkwy

McKinney, TX 75071

LOTS of great craft booths!

Come join the fun!

I'm know I'm getting ready...