$1200 from anonymous!

$1200 from anonymous!



in our family Grant  Reece's Rainbow!!!
we are getting so close!

Doll show

My girls and I have a table at the doll show tomorrow. I am selling the rest of my doll collection to earn money to go for our adoption. Some I made and others I just collected. We did this in the fall too and raised some but this time I want to raise a bunch! so please pray we have great success.



Here is a pic from  the other show we did.
 

WOW ! $2,500 from anonymous!

WOW $2,500 from anonymous!
Andrea from Reece's Rainbow just emailed me to tell me how much we have in our family sponcership page on Reece's Rainbow and listed is $2,500 from anonymous wow!!!!



The lord just keeps showing me every why I turn that we are doing just what he asked us to do that bringing this little boy home is his will and that he is with us every step of the way even in the tuff times!! Thank you Lord and thank you anonymous who ever you are.

COURT DATE!!!!!!

FOUND THIS EMAIL IN MY IN BOX THIS MORNING!!!!!!!
The NINE family:



The court hearing is appointed for March 01, 2011.


Mike and Katrina have to arrive  on February 24.


On February 25, 2011 they will have the physical exam. We will need to


be at hospital by 8 a.m.


The judge has requested the medical form to be submitted 2 business days prior


to the court.


The family can leave on March 02, 2011.

No court date yet ....maybe tomorrow...):

she wrote and said that she will not have any information until tomorrow!

Can't wait to

                                                  Can't wait to

                                             fly on this plane again

stay at this hotel again

                                                 sleep in this bed again

eat this breakfast again

drive thru this traffic again

                                               go to this buliding again

past this playground again

                                               knock on this door again

                                 put these booties over our shoes again.

                                            wait on these seats again

                                            walk down this hall again

                                                go up these steps again

                                                   into this room again

                                               to hold this boy again!

Tomorrow

Tomorrow our coordinator in EE meets with the judge. Please pray that she will give us and our friends the Fillmores our court dates. They are 11 hrs ahead of us there so the meeting will take place while we are sleeping tonight.

AND THE WINNER IS

And the Winner is .........Lisa Williams....  Congratulations Lisa!


   Thank you to all of you that donated. In the last month we have raised thru the iPod giveaway,Makenzys sand dollars,parents night out done by Amanda and Madison and donations  $5,995!!! WOW! we are only $310 away from what we need for our next trip (the court trip). Keep watching because we are going to be doing another giveaway to help with the  $9,000 we need for our 3rd trip (the Gotcha trip where we get to bring him home). Not sure what the prize will be yet we are thinking on that.Thank you for helping us bring our boy home! 

We're Giving Away a New iPod Touch! will draw the name tonight at 8:00

We are excited to announce that one lucky donator will receive a brand new iPod Touch 32 GB!

For every $10 donation you will have one entry in the drawing.  We will draw the name on January 29th

We need the help of a lot of people to help us raise the final $15,000 that we need to finish the process of bringing Josiah home. By the grace of God, and thanks to a few donations,we have been able to cover the first $18,000 in expenses.  We have had just what we needed as we needed it. (Thank you, Lord.)  But we still have a ways to go financially to make this a reality, and how much sweeter would it be to know that many people came together to help bring this miracle about!

Every donation will be valuable to us!  We thank you from our hearts for anything that you can give!  We love you!!!

Would you  please help us spread the word through Facebook or your blog or e-mail...ANYTHING...that would help even more!

Here's How To Donate/Enter the Giveaway:

To pay by check or credit card, Click on the "ChipIn" button to the right of this post.  Please enter the total amount of your donation as the "price" with a quantity of "1". It doesn't work when you enter multiple quantities.

TO MAKE A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION through our REECE’S RAINBOW FAMILY SPONSORHIP PAGE, CLICK HERE:
http://reecesrainbow.org/sponsornin
If you donate this way, please e-mail me or leave a comment with your contact information because I will not have it otherwise.

If you would rather send a check, just email me for our address katrina9@clear.net
OR if you live close to us, feel free to bring it by our home so we can give you a big hug!

We can't wait to do THIS every day. 

Thank you for helping to make this dream a reality!

It won't be long....

Drawing the name for the iPod touch tomorrow.

We will be drawing the name for the iPod touch tomorrow. You still have time to get in on it! Just use the chip in and donate $10 and you will have a chance to win. We are so close we only need $690 for our next trip.

update

I copied this from Heather's post  because it says just what I would say.

Quick Update


Tuesday, our coordinator got a call from the Judge's assistant and she said that, rather than meeting with her (the assistant) on Wednesday, the judge would like to meet with her in person next Monday (our Sunday night) to review our cases (us and the Nine's.)

I'm not sure if we should be nervous, or what. We are the "pioneers" of the special needs program in which our agency is partnering with Reece's Rainbow, in this region. We're the first two families to come through who are adopting kids with DS in a while, I think. There are a bunch coming soon, but we are the first. And we both have larger families than they are used to. So I think the judge is being a bit more thorough than usual.

I e-mailed our coordinator and asked if this was unusual, and her reply was,

"Hope the judge wants to see me because she needs to hear on the documents (the ones that she asked for last week) and choose the court date upon the information received and accordingly to her schedule."
Hope so, too.
HOPE SO, TOO!!!!!
We pray that we'll find good news in our inbox Monday morning.

here is the link to Heathers's blog for Anya http://www.fillmoresjourneytoanna.blogspot.com/

The Inside of My Heart: My 1st letter to V Josiah.

This is my Daughter Amanda's blog please go read the letter she wrote to V Josiah it touches my heart more then words could ever say.

The Inside of My Heart: My 1st letter to V Josiah.: "I am making this blog to show what it's like to be part of an adoption, to be the older sister of an adopted sibling (and many biologic..."

My girls made a blogs for sweet little Artem and Christopher

My daughters Madison and Amanda made  blogs for the sweet little  Artem and christopher  from Reece'sRainbow who they have chosen to be a prayer warrior for.I'm so proud of them they have such huge hearts for the kids that still need a family.

here are the links
http://artemneedsafamily.blogspot.com/                     http://www.you-have-a-story.blogspot.com/

 

The judge wants some updates

Well the judge wants a few things updated.we are getting them done and hope to be able to get our court date next week. This is a small setback, we can do this, look how far we have come 10 months and 9 days of setbacks, this is nothing new. Thank you Lord for the blessings you have shown us it has made us stronger.

guess what ...........we got $1,050 in donations today Thank you Lord!!!

HE LOVES TO DANCE!