Thanks Elder Family!

Yesterday, during an uncharacteristically warm day at the Oregon coast, the Elders were spotted rocking their adoption shirts. Lookin' good guys :)

Meanwhile...we rocked our shirts at Hug Point

For those of you we don't live close enough to to hand deliver orders to, we are shipping them out today :)

Thanks Evans Family for supporting our adoption!!

They're Here!

The shirts are finally in! We just picked them up last night and they look great. We will be sending them out to you ASAP. When you get your shirts email us a picture of you in them and we'll post it on our blog. sevans11@hotmail.com. Thanks again for your support and patience!

We just found out that the last date to order shirts will be August 25, so if you haven't gotten your order in and still want one there's not much time. We have ordered additional totes, however, that we already have on hand. Thanks!

On the adoption front- not really any news still. The agencies say you typically don't hear much from them from until they are going to show your profile to a potential birth family. Our case worker at the Utah agency is on vacation so we're waiting until she's back on Monday to hear from her whether or not they have everything they need from us. Patience continues to be the name of the game. It's not always easy to not have any control over the situation, but then we remember that God is in control of it. Thank you all again for your continued prayer and support.

Wow, I realize that I am not a very good blogger...but there also hasn't been too much to post. We finally got the rest of our documents sent off to the agency in Utah so we will soon be "good to go" with two agencies.  We're mostly just in the waiting stage now. We like this stage better than the paperwork stage, but it does require quite a bit of patience.

The first round of t-shirts and tote bags have been ordered. We will let you know as soon as they come in. Thank you for your patience and your continued prayer and support.

We have made contact with 2 of the agencies we sent our packets to. One in Utah and one in Florida. They have both asked us to send in an application in addition to everything else we had already sent. Today Andrew got the application for the Florida agency mailed off and once they receive it and approve us, we will officially be in the running (not sure if that's the proper terminology). We are so excited to get to this point!! We still have a to get a few copies of various documents together before we can send our application to Utah. Praying for patience and that we remember that God is in control and His timing is perfect.

A HUGE thank you to everyone who has supported us so far through prayer, donations, and buying shirts and totes. We can't tell you how grateful we are for all of you! 

T-Shirts and Totes!

We are selling t-shirts to help raise money for the adoption. I have to say, these are pretty sweet shirts, with an original design by the lovely and talented Sarah Thistlethwaite. Adult and youth sizes available with 4 colors to choose from. To order, or see how else you can help, please click on the "Fundraiser" tab above. We are asking that you pre-order and we will get the shirts to you once we have a few to order together. We are estimating around 2 weeks from time of order til we get the shirts or totes to you. We also have tote bags for sale with the same design. Thanks!