Wednesday, June 19, 2013

We're Adopting!

We're ADOPTING! Ok, so if you've read our blog before you already know this, but because it has literally been 8 months since my last update...thought I would restate the obvious. Yes, family, friends, neighbors and newbies to our blog....we are still adopting. Almost 2 years ago we submitted our dossier to the Ethiopian Government and currently we have 30 other families ahead of us waiting to bring their children home.

Lily, Annie, Scott and I cannot wait to bring Samuel home and while we wait and prepare our hearts, our minds and essentially our lives, we are trying to stay busy by raising funds but more importantly raising awareness to the orphan crisis worldwide. Current statistics state there are over 147 million orphans worldwide. While God has directed us to Africa to bring home our son, the truth is there are thousands of orphans right where each of you live. Children currently in our foster system, struggling to gain a happy stable home life, children living on the streets, begging or stealing, just to survive. And because this is the reality of our world we would love to share with each of you the vision our family has and the ways in which you can help.

On August 9th & 10th we will be hosting an evening of entertainment. As I'm sure most of you know Scott and I have been doing theater for years and it is not only something we enjoy but something we enjoy together. Because of this we have decided to incorporate our love of theater to help us continue our fundraising. All proceeds of ticket sales go straight to the adoption and any other donations we receive. We have some really incredible people who are donating their time and talents to help us because they believe in our family and what God has called us to. I believe this night will not only help us, but be tons of fun. I am posting our flyer below with the information as well as the new designs for the t-shirts we will be selling the nights of our show as well as on our blog and through facebook.

As always thanks for reading, caring, loving and supporting our crazy life.






T-SHIRTS
SuperMan Tee  $15
Rescue the Orphan Tee $15
(all gender neutral sizes S-XXXL)




Adoption is the new Pregnant  $18
(Women's cut tees with glitter embellishment (not pictured) S-XXXL)