Jesus said “Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.” - Mark 9:37

Saturday, December 31, 2011

As 2011 winds down...

I can't help but be excited for 2012 & all that God has for us!

And we still have 2012 CALENDARS!!!

I have been asked what the inside looks like, so I took some pics to post for everyone. Please remember these are 8.5 x 11 spiral bound, nice quality, full color wall calendars. Each month highlights a different family & their beautiful adoptive children.

Plenty of space to write appointments on...

January - June

July - Decemeber

Thick & sturdy enough to stand. These are nice calendars!

So please don't miss your chance to get one. Only $12, plus S/H $3.50 for one & $1 ea additional. Orders yours today via our Chip-In button or Paypal to adventure4eli@gmail.com.

Thank you all & Happy New Year!

Friday, December 30, 2011

Decisions & Blessings

Well I am still researching social workers, so we can decide who we are going to hire to do our home study. Today I finally got to talk to a couple of them. I really liked this one lady that has been doing home studies for adoptive families of chinese children for over 11 yrs. Please be in prayer that we choose the right SW.

Then while talking to our agency coordinator this afternoon about our paperwork and home study, I was informed of a New Years blessing... We have been awarded a Brittany's Hope Grant of $2,000!!! Praise God! Now Brittany's Hope is a 'Pay It Forward' grant foundation and what that means, I have been told, is that they will set up an account in our name for people to donate into. When we have $1,000 in donations, Brittanys Hope will grant us $2,000 towards our travel expenses or orphanage fee. And Brittany's Hope is a non-profit, so anyone wanting to make a donation as a tax deduction can do so thru this opportunity. Yay!

God is so good! Every time I might have the hint of discouragement or not even, just concern, He provides some type of blessing to remind us this is His plan & He will bring it to completion. I am so grateful!

And for those who haven't gotten their 2012 calendar, we still have some left.

Or if you want a chance at a FREE Kindle Fire... we are still accepting Donations for that Give Away too.

Thank you everyone for your prayers and support. God bless everyone as they ring in the New Year. We are off to a bonfire with friends. Catch ya in 2012!

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Merry Christmas!

We are so blessed to celebrate Christ's birth as fellow heirs to the kingdom of God. And we are so blessed to have celebrated Christmas this year together with four kids at home in our new resident state of Texas, and one kid waiting across the ocean in China.  :) 

Can't wait to hear that Eli hopefully received his Christmas Care Pkg & the news of us becoming his forever family. As a family tradition we opened gifts to one another on Christmas Eve. But in the spirit of St. Nicholas's Giving our entire family gets stockings on Christmas morning at our house, and today was no exception... the kids found Eli's stocking under our "Advent Tree" where dad put it because Eli is family and we are preparing & awaiting his arrival, just as we have been preparing & awaiting for Christ this season.


Zoe & Levi enjoyed exploring Eli's stocking and we are putting his things up for his travel backpack home...

And if we didn't have enough things to praise God for, I must share a wonderful blessing we just received... When I opened our blog to write this post, I noticed it looked like our Chip In fund was bigger. So I hurried to log into Eli's paypal account and found that we received a $100 Donation TODAY, on Christmas day!!! Thank you so much to the GIVER of this Gift. May God bless you tenfold! That is the second $100 Donation we have received this week... Christmas week. God bless tenfold the Corsicana family, who blessed us earlier this week too. Praise the Lord of all things, praise His Holy name! As we are trying to finish selling the calendars and raise the rest of our first agency payment of $3,000 these Donations are a huge blessing and encouragement.

Merry Christmas to all & God bless us, everyone!

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Do you drink coffee?

I know I am a coffee junkie! Starbucks could become my middle name. But if you are like me, may I ask you to consider this... Just Love Coffee is a company owned & operated by an adoptive family that supports other adoptive families. We have registered with them to receive a portion of proceeds from sales through our adoption store front https://justlovecoffee.com/about/beneficiary/adventure4eli/ going towards bringing Eli home. So please, if you buy coffee check this out, try some & help bring Eli home while we still drink coffee. It's that easy! We're gonna buy the coffee anyway, and this way it blesses lots of people at the same time. Oh, and BTW, for my non-coffee drinkers... they have cocoa too! And a neat gift shop...

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Our first gifts to Eli

We are so excited about being able to give him these Christmas gifts & especially to tell him we are his forever family in a letter & with pictures too (in the photo album).
And Angela found the perfect gift, since he loves music & likes to sing, she found him a keyboard w/ microphone. We can't wait to hear his response & hope for return letter from him...


And of course it wouldn't be Christmas without a nice new outfit. Angela has nice taste!  :)


Angela & Kelly from Ladybugs 'N Love www.ladybugsnlove.com are awesome!

We are also sending money to the orphanage for a cake for his Birthday because it is in 2 weeks. Don't want to overwhelm him, but don't want his birthday forgotten either. Just want him to know he is loved!

Thank you to everyone praying for our Eli and for our adoption process. We appreciate & need all of them!

Merry Christmas,
Sherry
 

Sunday, December 18, 2011

And the winner is...

Woohoo! Congratulations Karen Rubenstein of Alexandria, LA for winning the $75 Gift Basket!






Thank you everyone for your support in helping us raise $153.53 towards bringing Eli home!

Onto our next Give Away... a brand new KINDLE FIRE!!!

20 MIN UNTIL GIVE AWAY!!!


Just wanted to announce that there is only 20 mins left untill we draw a name for the $75 Gift Basket Give Away of Starbucks, Specialty Chocolates, earrings, incense burner, gift card, snowman decor, cookies...
 

Please Donate $5 to get your name in drawing or $10 for three chances before 10pm CST & help us bring Eli home!!!

And if you Donate & x-post to your fb wall or blog & send me link, I will put your name in again for FREE...

Donate using easy Chip-In button on right side of blog or Paypal to adventure4eli@gmail.com

Thank you all for your support & prayers!
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