Update on shoes

Hey there shoes are walking their way in slowly......  we may have to extend the time period on this Shoe drive since we have to have at least a min. of 10,000 lbs. for them to come out and pick them up.

which is roughly 350 lawn bags filled with 25+ pairs of shoes.

so keep spreading the word and collect those shoes

thank you so much :)

Adoption #2 fundraiser shoes

Hello everyone! we have decided to start fundraising for our next adoption and once we get most of the proceeds raised we will submit our profile again! Praying for a Brother or Sister for lil Isaac!!!!

We are going to be doing a shoe drive fundraiser through Cash4shooz!

                                                                    (www.cash4shooz.com)

A little bit about Cash4shooz 

The shoes we collect for them are gently used shoes (no winter or rainboots) but any other type of shoe is great! 

Cash4shooz takes the shoes and they deliver them to third world countries, it provides jobs and gives those who have less shoes to purchase.  

 It is a win win win!

 jobs for others, shoes for less fortunate and we get paid by the lb. for shoes collected so we are going to need a whole ton of shoes!!!! so pass this on to your friends and family members and co workers get a box and let me know when you need them picked up or can get them to me we will be running this fundraiser starting NOW to Novemeber 1st!!!

I am sure everyone has leftovers from garage sales or even just a closet that has unworn shoes so dig through them and fill up a bag or box!!

Thank you so much and God bless

Staci!

One year with Isaac!

One year has now went by and our baby boy Isaac is just getting so big!!! walking now and chattering away! we thank you all so much for all the support!

Should we adopt again? can we raise that much money again? will we get picked again? these are just a few of the things going through my head since.....

We got in the mail a letter asking if we would like to update our profile so that we can adopt again, we have been praying a lot about it! we are in the middle of trying to sell our house and just life in general passing by we would love to adopt again to grow our family as long as God wanted us to do that.
 It is just hard to come up with so much money right away we would have to pay:
1. $200 to update our profile
2. 50$ about to get fingerprinted again
3. $ to get criminal check ran again
4. $6,000.00 for when we get to bring a baby home (if we get chosen) we would need this amt at hospital.
5. $6,000.00 for post placement (we would need this amount at our adoption specialist first visit after bringing baby home)
6. $2,000.00 for lawyer fees to complete the adoption

I KNOW IF GOD HAS A little one out there that is meant for our family he will make it all happen
we all truly saw that with our son Isaac he just knew and things got done in such a timely matter it truly was amazing!

well...as for right now we are just continuing to pray about this and we are asking you all to pray with and for us to know what we should do! thanks love staci.
   
            

 

Things.......

Things are moving right along, Things with the birth-mom are going good, we found out a few details about how she would like for the hospital and delivery are to go, which could all change in a blink of an eye.....
she will be in contact with Darla when she goes to the hospital and when she delivers, and she will be giving the green light to darla when we are allowed to know anything or go up to the hospital or anything. she has a doctors app on friday the 12th. and darla will be updating us about that appointment, the doctor at least wanted our birth-mom to get to july 12th then it is all up to birth-mom and what she wants done. we found out she went 5 days early with her little girl and we also found out the lil girl was about 8lbs, our birth-mom is very tiny and petite, it seriously looks like she just has a basketball in her belly, so cute, but with her being small and darla also told me that she is bigger now than she was with her last at this point so maybe doctor will want him out sooner than later! I just hope and pray that he comes when he is supposed to come and that she is ready. I just have been thinking about our birth-mom and cry, and wish my body could do what her body does so well. I know that this is her choice but I am sure she is wishing she were in a better place with her relationship with her boyfriend or financially or whatever and wouldn't have to be going through this on the other end! I have been feeling just lousy, and i hate to say this and it may not make sense to all of you but i feel like a monster or a horrible person taking her baby from her, and yet again i know this is her choice and............ time has literally flown by since writing this post! things got crazy good, Isaac was born and we went to see him and after a nerve-wrecking three days all papers were signed and we got to bring him home!