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Guess Who Finally Got in to Vanderbilt
YEP! This girl! Not Barlow...KEMRY! :) We have been on the waiting list for 11 months to see a developmental pediatrician at Vanderbilt and we FINALLY got the call that we have an appointment for...
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Vandy Visit and Official REFERRAL!
Well we don't feel like we really got anywhere with Vanderbilt, unfortunately. It was a lot of the same ideas that have already been done and tried. Things that would work wonderfully, probably, for...
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Give1Save1 - TUNE IN Oct 1 for our week!
This was a crazy busy week for us but also EXCITING. It was Kemry and Kollin's birthdays (they turned 6 and 17 AHHH), my sister announced she is having another BAAAAABY, and we got new pictures of our...
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THREE MORE DAYS until Give1Save1!
It all begins MONDAY....this coming MONDAYSo here is how Give1 Save1 works.....1. Our family video gets featured on Give1Save1 for ONE WEEK - October 1-7, 20122. Donate $1 with Paypal...or however...
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Wild Olive Tee Fundraiser
We have been selected to fundraise through Wild Olive Tees!!! They have some of the most awesome t-shirts!!!!!How adorable is this "Fear Not" tshirt???? And I LOVE this "redeemed" tshirtAnd because...
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It's GIVE1SAVE1 Time!!!!!!!!!
It's FINALLY HERE!!!! Our Give1 Save1 Africa MOMENT!So here is how Give1 Save1 works.....1. Our family video gets featured on Give1Save1 for ONE WEEK October 1-7, 2012MONDAY- SUNDAY2. WATCH our video...
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Day 1 Give1Save1 Total
Everyone who SHARED our video yesterday or donate whether it was $1 or $100...this is because of YOU!!!!!! Our kids are closer to coming home because God used YOU to bring them here. We cannot thank...
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Give1Save1 Totals at End of Day 2
At the END of day 2, this is how much you LOVELY people have contributed! FIVE days left so PLEASE SHARE our FEATURED FAMILY blogpost at Give1Save1 (link below)! SHARE on Facebook, SHARE at church,...
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Give1Save1 Day 4 Total & Bloopers
Sooo we're putting ourselves out there for humiliation again. :)Know why?????THESE GUYS ARE WORTH IT!So here it is.....our mess ups. :)Seriously guys, we cannot tell you how GRATEFUL and blessed we...
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Our Give1Save1 Total
THANK YOUjust isn't adequate. It feels like watered down koolaid to even say those two words because what we feel in our hearts is so much MORE powerful than just a simple "THANK YOU." I'll be honest,...
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This is starting to seem so REAL
Our dossier is on it's way. Within 3-4 weeks or so we should be "in the system" in Ethiopia and be officially waiting for a court date. Usually it is super hard to depart with weeks or months of...
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OUR DOSSIER IS IN ETHIOPIA!
It's there!!! Our dossier (the huge packet of papers from police clearances to our homestudy to employment letters to reference letters to medical reports to financial letters) is finally IN...
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Crazy Thanksgiving - Just Like We Like It
Thanksgiving was a CRAZY week for our family. On Saturday, I had a neglected, cracked tooth start to abscess. We drove to my sister's new old farm house to help them do some renovations and we didn't...
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O Christmas Tree
This is the first year we have gone to an actual tree farm and cut down our tree. We had so much fun!!! Kollin had to miss it because he had the tummy bug the rest of us had throughout the week (see...
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A Very Cashy Christmas
Even in an attempt to scale back by all, we still ended up completely overdoing Christmas yet again. Each kid only asks for 1-2 things (depending on the price of what they are asking for) and we draw...
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Mom & Me Journals
I am kind of in love with this concept. My here are times my littles want to tell me something a d I'm in the middle of something else and can't give them my full attention. Or they may not want to...
View ArticlePrayer Warriors Needed
Our MOWCYA court date is Tuesday (Monday night while we sleep due to the 8hr time difference). This is the ministry of women, children, and youth in Ethiopia and they are to write us a favorable letter...
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Still waiting
No new news, just not to expect anything before next week. MOWCYA is behind on issuing approval letters (which is what we need to get a court/travel date) because they had two holidays last week. We...
View ArticleAnd we are still waiting......but 1 positive
MOWCYA is almost 2 weeks behind in getting letters issued for court. This means we don't expect to hear anything until at least Monday regarding a court date, almost a week away. A family with our...
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The sound of crickets.....
Still nothing. The quiet of waiting for your children is a terrible quietness. We are hopeful, however, to hear something this week because the MOWCYA officials have returned to Addis from their...
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Good news to come...maybe?
Found out today that MOWCYA has mostly caught up on January cases (ours was Jan 15) but hasn't had time to let agencies know whose are ready and whose aren't do to working so hard on the cases...
View ArticleI have been extremely selfish
Our case has gone painfully slow. It is no secret that it has been weighing very heavily on our hearts. Living life in limbo not sure when to schedule appts or play dates or whether to RSVP for events...
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COURT DATE!!!!!!
We finally got our court date! APRIL 8 if we pass, and we should, M, Y, and B will legally be our children!!!!! Ahhhhh!!! We will be leaving a few days before and returning a few days after and will...
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Introducing......
OUR SONKorbin Yishak&OUR DAUGHTERSKenna Meron and Klaire BethelehemWE PASSED COURT!!!!! They are finally legally our children! Kollin, Karly, Karson, Kerrigan, and of course me and John were in...
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How We've Grown - A Re-introduction
Our family has grown so much since my last post. Not in quantity, but in size! :) My last post, we added Kenna, Korbin, and Klaire to our family making us a family of 12. The past 3 years have been...
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