Saturday, August 30, 2008

OUR BIG GIRL!!!



Happy 3rd Birthday Hannah-Banana!
We LOVE you!
With Love~
Mom,Dad,David, Katie, Matthew,Allie,Grace & Johnathan





Friday, August 29, 2008

If you love a good giveaway...



And I KNOW you do, head on over to CHINA BABY! and leave a comment for a chance to win an adorable bag, like the one above.


Rebecca is celebrating the opening of her new business, UPTOWN DESIGN STUDIO. She will be doing blog designs, websites, Etsy banners, as well as custom announcements. Rebecca designed this blog for me, and I LOVE it. If you think you might want a new look, Rebecca will hook you up. That Girl is "OFF THE CHAIN!" Good!


After you enter in the giveaway, go ahead and spread the word for Rebecca by posting about her new business on your blog(no pressure. Only if you like her work. But I know you will), then you will get an extra 3 entries for the giveaway(just make sure to go back and tell her you did). And if you are feeling extra cool, sign up for a blog makeover at UPTOWN DESIGN STUDIO and you will get 5 extra entries. " NU-UH! " You are thinking. "That can't be." I don't blame you for being skeptical.

Head on over to CHINA BABY! and see for yourself!

But then after, come back and thank me. Cause this is good stuff. And you really should not have doubted me, cause I have never lied to you before.


:)
Thursday, August 28, 2008

As if life weren't sweet enough....


A little Gift from God this morning!
Is it possible to run out of Happy Tears?
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

L ONGING TO MEET


O UR LITTLE MAN


A SAP!!!








Today we received our LOA from our new agency. We also received word that CCAA has officially approved the transfer of our files to our new agency. GO GOD!


So please...send some thanks up to God on our behalf for these victories! And, while you are at it, would you please pray for my friend Gayly. She is LONG overdue to celebrate these three little letters and I would ask that you pray for the CCAA to stamp her LOA today so that she can get her sweet little Nate home. And, since you're prayin', if you could ask God for a speedy TA, and a kickin' CA right around the corner, I wouldn't be mad at ya. Many thanks!

Hang in there little man...it won't be long now. And hang in there Gayly, prayer warriors are on it, and your day IS coming. And we WILL REJOICE BIG TIME when your time comes!

PRAISE GOD!


J

Johnathan's Mommy

Monday, August 25, 2008

Matthew's Hidden Talent




In case he is famous some day, and this hidden talent comes out in an interview, I didn't want you all to feel sad you never knew about it.

So there you go.

Now you do! :)
Thursday, August 21, 2008

And the moment you have all been waiting for......

(cue drum roll, Bob)

db-db-db-db-db-db-db-db-db-db-db-db-db(you try coming up with a drum roll sound)

wait... before I let you know who won, if you can stand the excitement and hang in with me for that long, I wanted to let you know a few things...

I decided in the spirit of the Olympics I would choose 3 winners. (might have been because when I pulled out just one little piece of paper out of the hat, I felt bad for all the other numbers... I could have kept picking, but the madness had to stop somewhere!) So the Gold winner will take away the 2 CD's and the Silver and Bronze Medalists will be the lucky recipients of one CD as well, but you won't know which one till you get it. How fun is that??

I also wanted to tell you that if you ever do a giveaway yourself, and you write little numbers on pieces of paper to pull out of a hat, DO NOT use a post it note. Makes for a very sticky situation. I'm here to help. (It is early peeps. What do you want from me?)


And on to the Awards Ceremony......(Bob.. the drums....ahem)



Coming in First and Taking away the much sought after Gold Medal, representing FOOTBALL AND FRIED RICE, (lets give some love to)........... Sara!!!!!!!



And medal-ing in at only .05 sixteenths of an inch in paper length shorter than Sara, representing LIVIN' LA VIDA LIA, (give it up for).......... Kate!!!!!



And last but not least, representing THE LONG ROAD TO CHINA and taking home the Bronze, (can I hear a big ol' WOO-HOO for)........... Lisa!!


Thanks to all who came out to play. I love having the chance to get to "know" you. I think I might have to do this again sometime soon. Giving stuff away ROCKS!. And please people, please, remember.... YOU ARE ALL WINNERS! ;)


p.s. Sara,Kate,Lisa... shoot me a comment or e-mail with your addresses so I can send you your booty. :)
Wednesday, August 20, 2008



I just wanted to pause a moment in the craziness that is the bloggy giveaway(I know you all are on the edge of your seat. Simmer Down now, we are almost there. ;) ), to tell you about one of the greatest Blessings in my life...My sister.

I wish you all would get a chance to get to know her. She is one of the nicest, most genuine people you will EVER meet. I am not just saying this because she is my sister. Ask anyone who has had the pleasure to get to know her. You will not find anyone who knows her who doesn't feel unbelievably blessed to be a part of her life.


My sis is the greatest MOM alive. She is the kind of mom who takes the greatest care in the littlest details knowing it makes her kids feel loved. She is the kind of mom you will see in the grocery store singing a goofy song about vegetables as she follows her kids around as they "help" out loading the veggies into the bag, while dropping some on the floor and taking 4x as long than if she did it herself. All the while making the kids feel like there is no place else she would rather be. And she would mean it.


She is the type of mom who collects boxes and keeps them in her basement for the day when they feel moved to spend the whole day making a cardboard airport decked out with a card board plane, a control tower, a ticket booth and a runway. Then the rest of the day will be spent with alternating between her role of pilot, passenger, ticket booth personnel and those guys who land the plane and wave their little glow-ey wands.

She runs through the sprinkler with the kiddos on the spur of the moment in her nice clothes and does cartwheels at the park , not caring who is watching cause it makes her kids smile. She orders a jump-o-leen to put in the back yard for 3 hours and invites all the cousins over for no reason whatsoever other than, why not? It's fun. And she is the one inside jumping and doing flips with every ones kids. Because she is just that cool.

My sister is SUPER MOM. SUPER AUNT. SUPER SIS. SUPER FRIEND! And I am only touching on so little of what makes her AMAZING, but she is 3 weeks away from her due date for #3, and I find myself thinking a lot lately about what a WONDERFUL mother she is and How abundantly blessed her children are to call her mom.


Makes my heart smile BIG!

You Rock Sis!!(and I'm not talkin' about the waddle your sportin' these days.")

Two more days to delurk, and enter to win :)

You know you want to... just do it. Go here and leave a comment, and you might win some seriously cool tunes. :)


btw- Just a reminder, if you enter, I will not post your comment. So if you don't see it, don't worry you are entered. To all the friends who e-mailed or posted twice asking if I got their comment, I did, and your name is "thrown in to the hat."

I so hope you come out and say hello. Even if I know you, enter. You won't be sorry. Unless you are allergic to really cool music. Then you might be sorry. Something to think about before you comment.

I so hope YOU win. But you can't win if you don't enter! :)

Happy Day!

p.s. sorry Colleen and Gayly, accidentally posted your comments.. love you! :)
Friday, August 15, 2008

Giveaway Countdown

So I am super-duper excited (yes, that's right, super-duper) that several of you came out of lurking. I am going to take some time this weekend to stop by and visit your blogs. :)

However, there are still a few of you still lurking and I would love it if you came out to say hello. Stop by here and leave a comment. Like I mentioned, I don't bite (on purpose). And if you have heard otherwise, the charges have been dropped. :)

It only takes a few seconds...really. Just leave your name, describe how you found me and where I can find you, and tell me a little bit about yourself (e.g., your grandma's most coveted recipe, your deepest darkest secret, what you love most about me, etc.). To those of you who are new here, I apologize for my juvenile sense of humor. But I am not apologizing to my "regular" friends...nothing for you as you should know better by now. ;) )

I will randomly pick a Giveaway winner next Friday. So if you have stopped by and you wondered whether there was still time to win, you betcha! Even if I already know you, enter now peeps!

I LOVE to give stuff away. This is more fun for me than it is for you!

Hope to hear from you soon!!!
Friday, August 8, 2008

A sneak Peek...or Listen.

Turn up your volume.

nice, eh?

A little taste of the give away...

Gotta go. I can't hear the tuneage when I'm posting.
Thursday, August 7, 2008

I'm NOT above a bribe...

So a few months back, we took some time out to get to know each other.







Wasn't that fun? Ahh.... Good times. I met so many new friends, found some new blogs to follow and got a few new recipes out of it too. The deal-e-o is, I know there are so many of you out there still lurking. Why don't you come out and say hello? I don't know if you are mad because you feel I lied to you about the UBA... If you read to the next post you would know, it was not intentional. I promise. Don't hold that against me.



Or maybe you are a little scared I might bite you. I have that problem under control, I promise. (still in your best interest not to dangle sugary delights in front of me. I'm just sayin').



Or maybe you are just shy and aren't comfortable coming out of lurking. I encourage you to give it a go. Tell you what, I won't make eye contact with you while you comment. That might make it less awkward in the beginning as we get to know each other. Deal?



So I saw this idea on a friends blog,(shout-out Michelle) and I am going to mooch it. I am going to do a give-away to encourage all my "friends-to-be" in hiding to come out of lurkdom. I am even going to steal her idea for what to give away. If you took the chance to get to know me, you would learn I am not very creative or original. So I need to mooch alot. Therefore, I surround myself with lots of creative friends. It works for me. :)



If you peek to the left you will find some of my favorite blog links. Not all of them, because I am a little lax in updating. There you will find the link to BRING THE RAIN. I know most of my close blogging friends already know about this blog, But if you have not visited there, PLEASE GO. It will BLESS you immensely. In fact, go now, and come back. I will still be here. Really. You won't be sorry. :)



As you now know, Angie's husband is in the band Selah. I am going to give away one of their CD's. I am also going to give away a CD for Brian and Jenn Johnson. You will LOVE them. And I have to say, Feeling kinda proud of myself, as I thought of that one all by myself. Pause for Applause...And I curtsy in appreciation.









All you need to do is to take the time out to leave a comment , and I will do a random drawing in the near future to choose a winner. Even if I Already know you, participate. Cause winning stuff is fun! I will NOT post your comment! Just do me a favor and take the time to tell me a little bit about yourself. I LOVE meeting new people. LOVE IT. And I love following along with your blogs and getting to know your families. But I can't follow if I don't know you. So tell me how you found me, and how I can find you.



Looking forward to getting to know you better. And I hope you win the CD's. I really do. Cause you are my favorite "friend-to-be." Just don't tell the others. I don't want to hurt their feelings!






*** this little give-away is not only for my new "freinds-to-be", it is for everyone. So even if I know you, leave a comment! You are super cool too, and I want you to have a chance to ROCK IT OUT! ***
Wednesday, August 6, 2008

too cute...


Friday, August 1, 2008
So remember I asked you to pray for my friend Margie We were asking for an expedited TA. She is with my agency and was praying for her TA to come before the closing so that she could continue on with this agency to her daughter, and would not get stalled due to red tape of switching to another agency as well as not having to pay another agency fee. God answered this prayer. Today she got her TA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am praising God big time as well as burning a few calories dancing for joy (which are cancelled out from the celebratory eating taking place).

God is SOOOOO GOOD!

If you feel so inclined, stop by her blog and give her a big ol' Happy TA! If you have never been there before, take a peek at her little Raegan. She is in the header. You WILL NOT be able to stand the cuteness! If you can stay awhile, catch a peek at her other cuties, Austin, Savanna, and Lilli. It will Bless You.

Happy Day Margie!
:D
(pulling out the big smile tonight!)

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I am wife to my high school sweet heart and best friend and blessed mom of many, all of whom keep my arms filled and my heart full. We have been blessed with 10 kiddos...SO FAR! Our lives are CRAZY, and we LOVE it that way! We are crazy for Jesus, crazy for our family, and crazy passionate about the 147 million orphans who have no one to call their own. In our "free time" we help little ones home to their FOREVER FAMILIES, through our Non-profit LOVE THEM HOME. We also help others on their journey to HEALTH and FINANCIAL FREEDOM , as well as help Families Fundraiser for their adoptions as we "wrap others in love" through our home based business with IT WORKS GLOBAL! We are BLESSED, Indeed. And we LOVE being used by GOD to BLESS IT FORWARD!
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