While I am not sitting and waiting for micro steps in our adoption process, I am finding two weeks have gone by and I haven't anything to update! We actually have been quite busy on the home front with multiple projects that desperately needed our attention. We have been thankful this summer has not yet been too hot as our A/C unit (15 years old) has decided to not turn on. Joel is in the process of obtaining the parts we need and we are hoping for a friend to come help us replace fluid, coils and compressor to get it working again. We hope to save a lot of money by shopping around and making sure we understand everything, so we don't pay more for stuff we don't need. Our upstairs bathroom toilet was supposed to be a quick replace but we found that the previous house owners had installed it wrong and it had been leaking. 2.5 weeks later we now have a new tile floor and the new toilet finally installed. Thankfully we were able to do all the work ourselves and only had cost of supplies! God has been good to us and we are very thankful for the internet and our ability to complete our own house projects!
We are continuing to research Chinese culture and language. We have done a lot of reading of stories of older adopted children who talk about what their adopted parents did or didn't do in raising them. We hope to continue Chinese studies and language and not let her heritage disappear from her life. We hope she will want to continue studies of her birth country once she is home.
We are still planning some fund raisers to help with the travel costs. The grants that we applied for have not come through so far. I am still working with booster.com to sort out the T-shirt issue. If you bought one of the dark blue shirts and it shrunk, please email booster.com and let them know it was not satisfactory. Apparently the emails I have sent in complaint of the shrinking problem is not enough to get them to resend t-shirts to everyone. I am so sorry they shrunk so much! So email them today!
Please continue to keep us in prayer. Once our LOA arrives (hopefully around the end of July!) we could be traveling within 10 weeks. We will have a donation site set up with Connected Hearts Ministry where they will post our adoption story and have a link for donations. All donations will go directly to our agency to help with our travel costs and adoption fees. All donations through this site will be tax deductible. So, if you would like to make a donation, start saving your change now so you can help bring Joy home when the site is up the first two weeks of August 2014. I will post the link and instructions when our story is up. It will only run the first two weeks of August.
Our Origami Owl ongoing fundraiser for the month of June has raised our funding totals by $200!! All moneys raised from the sale through my site is going towards our adoption costs! Thank you to those who have had parties with your friends and families! If you would like to host a party or just make an order online, contact me! Here is the link for my July online party fund raiser!
We also will have a puzzle fund raiser! We just had our family photos taken by Alexis Springer Photography and we will have one of our photos made into a puzzle! If you would like to Sponsor a puzzle piece, they are $10 each! We will write your name and your favorite verse or proverb on the back. When the whole puzzle is complete we will hang it up in Joy's room so she can see how many people have been praying for her and have been a part of this journey! If you would like to sponsor a puzzle piece you can use the "Paypal" link in the top right corner of this blog and let us know what you would like us to write on the back of it! We are so excited about this fundraiser because it just shows the hands and feet of Jesus and how he works in each of our lives!!
A sneak peak at a couple of the wonderful photos from our family day Photo shoot!! Alexis is AMAZING!!! :)
Siblings waiting for their new sister!
Can't wait till we are ALL together in the same picture!
We are so thankful for all your prayers and support during this journey. We know that when Joy is home the real journey begins and we long for that day when we will be a family of 5!
Psalm 36:5-10
Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies.
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,
your justice like the great deep.
You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.
How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
They feast on the abundance of your house;
you give them drink from your river of delights.
For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.
Continue your love to those who know you,
your righteousness to the upright in heart.
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