Congrats to our two Silpada $100 gift certificate winners! Your gift certificates will be in the mail!
Friday, March 30, 2012
Who Wants The Bling?!
Congrats to our two Silpada $100 gift certificate winners! Your gift certificates will be in the mail!
Saturday, March 17, 2012
New Ipad 3 FUNdraiser! Great Chances to win.
Would you like to get your hands on a brand new Ipad 3 16GB?
As if that isn't enough, your donations will help us raise funds for our adoption! Win, win!
*******It's on folks! It's on! Thank you so much, we have just 110 entries left! Share the word and don't forget to comment letting me know you did!*******
*******It's on folks! It's on! Thank you so much, we have just 110 entries left! Share the word and don't forget to comment letting me know you did!*******
Each donation of $15 will give you 1 chance at the Ipad. A maximum of 150 chances to win will be available, so each person has a great chance of winning. At the end of the FUNdraiser we will have a random drawing to choose our Ipad winner. Ipad winner may choose from a white or black model.
How do you get a chance to win one of the two $100 Silpada gift certificates? Each time you share this FUNdraiser, comment and let us know and you will be entered to win one of two Silpada gift certificate of $100! You can share by posting to Facebook, blogging, tweeting, or Pinning! Just make sure to comment below for a chance at the gift certificates.
How do you get a chance to win one of the two $100 Silpada gift certificates? Each time you share this FUNdraiser, comment and let us know and you will be entered to win one of two Silpada gift certificate of $100! You can share by posting to Facebook, blogging, tweeting, or Pinning! Just make sure to comment below for a chance at the gift certificates.
To make a donation, please click the donate button located at the top of right side bar --------->
When we have reached the maximum, we will post the winners.
The fine print disclaimer. In order for this FUNdraiser to happen we must raise at least $550 for it to be ON! If we do not we'll refund everyone and there will be no giveaway. We will announce when we hit that point and once we do the giveaway will end 7 days later. This is NOT a r-a-f-f-l-e, please do not mention that it is. This IS helping to bring a child into his forever family!
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Stop and Shop Raffle
We have a beautiful home full of beautiful things made by and for very beautiful people:-) Please come by and shop our Stop and Shop! 4202 West Watrous Ave. Tampa 33629 (minutes from Westshore Mall). We are here from 1-5 today.
Can't come? Want to contribute to the 6 adoptive families and 2 missions families?
You can!
We have a raffle with so many wonderful items. You are able to buy tickets online- $1 per ticket.
All of these lovely items can be yours! Plus, all proceeds go to help us fundraising families to adopt or finance missions.
Items include:
- Love tee size S
- Bow holder
- Sparrow ornament
- Premier Jewelry bracelet
- Premier Jewelry jewelry roll up
- At Home America- candle and pillar
- Stained glass ornament
- Banana bread
- Cheese board, knife and cocktail napkins
- Tote with note cards, recipe cards, pencils and clip board
- Leather belt with beaded buckle
- Uganda beaded necklace
Simply click the link to donate, $1 per ticket.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Quick Update
We are now on the waiting list for HoA. We have almost all of our documents in for our homestudy (waiting on a few referrence letters and our fingerprinting) to complete our homestudy.
Because we have no idea when our match will be, we are pushing forward to make some of the funds that we will need to pay once we have a match. Please join us for our Stop and Shop, December 10th. I have some awesome items to sell. If you would like more information comment with your e-mail and I will send you the information. You can also support us by giving a holiday gift of coffee, just click the button on the sidebar to go right to the shop. This coffee is amazing and it makes a great, quick, easy gift that everyone appreciates! We also have a Thirty-One party going now.
We thank you for your prayers, positive thoughts and encouragements as we enter the waiting phase.
Many blessings this holiday week! May you and yours find many new things to be thankful for!
Love,
Sarah
Because we have no idea when our match will be, we are pushing forward to make some of the funds that we will need to pay once we have a match. Please join us for our Stop and Shop, December 10th. I have some awesome items to sell. If you would like more information comment with your e-mail and I will send you the information. You can also support us by giving a holiday gift of coffee, just click the button on the sidebar to go right to the shop. This coffee is amazing and it makes a great, quick, easy gift that everyone appreciates! We also have a Thirty-One party going now.
We thank you for your prayers, positive thoughts and encouragements as we enter the waiting phase.
Many blessings this holiday week! May you and yours find many new things to be thankful for!
Love,
Sarah
Friday, November 11, 2011
Holiday Stop and Shop
You are invited to "Stop and Shop" at our Holiday Market. This event is helping at least 6 families to raise funds for adoption and missions.
Where: 4202 West Watrous Ave. Tampa, 33629
When: Saturday, December 10th. 1-5 p.m.
Items that will be available for your shopping pleasure:
Jewelry
Ethiopian Framed Photo Art
... Tee Shirts
Unique Items from Africa
Hair Flowers
Ornaments
Boutique Clothing
Tutu's
Bow Holders
Hairbows
Key Fobs
Camara Strap Covers
Edibles
Sugar Scrubs
Doll Diapers
Appliqued items
Stockings
-WithCherriesOnTop
-A Little Bit Of Pink
-Mary Kay
-At Home America
-Thirty One
And more!
Come, shop, eat some yummy cookies, sip some cidar and support adoption and missions this holiday season. Get your christmas list completed in one stop!
Hope to see you there!
Families that you will be supporting:
The Shubin Family ( with Lifebridge Church Missions )- http://www.blogger.com/goog_224053179
The Sobkowiak Family- http://zzpetals.blogspot.com/
The Carlson Family: http://alittlebitofpink.wordpress.com/
The Viera Family: http://anoceansizedlove.blogspot.com/
The Mills Family: http://learningtorejoice.blogspot.com/
The Shreeve FamilySee More
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Wild Olive Tee's +Thirty One= Fundraising for our adoption
I love companies that have a heart for adoption! Wild Olive Tee's is supporting adoption by helping fundraising families through the sale of their beautiful tee's. Here are a few of my favorites:
A percent of every tee purchased will go towards our adoption fund. To make a purchase please enter our family code: VIERA0805 at checkout in the coupon code box. If you don't enter the code you will still be supporting a great company but it won't contribute towards our adoption fund:-)
You can also support our adoption by shopping Thirty One! My favorite blogger Erica is helping us out with this one. Get your teacher gift (they LOVE the lunch bags), your family gifts, a gift or two for you (wink) and support adoption too! I will try to close this out about November 15th to get every one's orders in plenty of time for Christmas gifts. Feel free to pass along the link to friends that love Thirty One!
Our homestudy paperwork is going in by Friday and our application is going with it. We will be preparing our adoption profile for the agency and getting ready to wait for a match. We have raised almost $1900 with the help of friends and family. We thank you all so much for your support. We truly need it! Adoption is a costly endeavor. Worth every struggle, penny and moment of work though.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Still an ocean sized love, just not an ocean sized distance.
If you ask any adoptive parent if their adoption journey was easy I am sure that their answer would be some variation of "no". Adoption is not easy. Adoption is not even close to easy.
We knew this going in this time around, of course. We knew that adopting internationally would prove to be an even bigger challenge than domestic adoption.
If you have followed my blog for a while you would know that coming to the decision to adopt from China was a very difficult choice. We started out wanting to adopt through the Foster/Adopt system. Then we considered China. Then we considered domestic African/Bi-racial adoption. There is a need for parents for all of those types of situations. We ended up deciding on China for a number of reasons, one of them being that a friend of ours started working for CCAI and I share her passion for orphans. I felt good about working with her to find our son.
We applied, were approved and started the process. We filled out some paper work. Fundraised. Waited. School began and what started out as an exciting adventure became a heart struggle. There were circumstances that made us re-think our plan to adopt from China.
I will not get into the intimate details of our choice to switch back to domestic. There were new challenges that we faced shortly after our journey to China began. Challenges that cleared our path, helped us to see what the right choice was with more clarity than before.
Many families are called to adopt in many different ways and I truly believe that no child is more deserving than the next. A journey to China would have been amazing, I'm sure. Perhaps someday we will make the journey. Right now though, we know that our son is a bit closer to home.
We are now trying to determine what agency/attorney to work with. We have our home-study update packet and plan on beginning the process right away. We will continue to fundraise and will continue to covet the prayers and support of our friends, old and new.
Our hope is to provide a loving home to a child who needs one, and gain a son, a child that we (our whole family) want so badly. If you know of any agencies/attorneys or resources for domestic adoption we would love for you to pass the information along.
Thanks-Sarah
We knew this going in this time around, of course. We knew that adopting internationally would prove to be an even bigger challenge than domestic adoption.
If you have followed my blog for a while you would know that coming to the decision to adopt from China was a very difficult choice. We started out wanting to adopt through the Foster/Adopt system. Then we considered China. Then we considered domestic African/Bi-racial adoption. There is a need for parents for all of those types of situations. We ended up deciding on China for a number of reasons, one of them being that a friend of ours started working for CCAI and I share her passion for orphans. I felt good about working with her to find our son.
We applied, were approved and started the process. We filled out some paper work. Fundraised. Waited. School began and what started out as an exciting adventure became a heart struggle. There were circumstances that made us re-think our plan to adopt from China.
I will not get into the intimate details of our choice to switch back to domestic. There were new challenges that we faced shortly after our journey to China began. Challenges that cleared our path, helped us to see what the right choice was with more clarity than before.
Many families are called to adopt in many different ways and I truly believe that no child is more deserving than the next. A journey to China would have been amazing, I'm sure. Perhaps someday we will make the journey. Right now though, we know that our son is a bit closer to home.
We are now trying to determine what agency/attorney to work with. We have our home-study update packet and plan on beginning the process right away. We will continue to fundraise and will continue to covet the prayers and support of our friends, old and new.
Our hope is to provide a loving home to a child who needs one, and gain a son, a child that we (our whole family) want so badly. If you know of any agencies/attorneys or resources for domestic adoption we would love for you to pass the information along.
Thanks-Sarah
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