Author Archives: admin Today’s my hubby’s birthday. He’s in a meeting ALL day–so although he normally gets an email to my blog—he won’t be in the office today so he won’t see this post until tomorrow. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! He’s coming home early so we can hang out a bit—Laney is off to gymnastics at 5pm and he and […] Isn’t that an 80’s song??? We are SO stinkin’ close to being able to mail in our dossier that I could almost POP. I had a sitter today—and this is what I did… Dropped Parker off at school, Laney off at preschool and put Frank down for a nap…sitter here out the door I go. […] The paperwork is crazy. It's amazing any of us get a homestudy completed and dossier submitted. Now that you have all this experience, you can't let it go to waste after this one. You will have to put it to use on adoption #2! Now I can make a comment! I do not have a blog up and running, but I am working on it! I have started a profile on google. Thanks for talking to me so much today! I know God is leading me, so I will trust him to guide our steps. Whatever that my mean! I emailed a couple of the people who are adopting from Uganda to ask them what agencies they use. I will keep you updated! I hope Richard had a good birthday! Melissa Ahhh…adoption #2?! Richard just said today that he doesn't think he can handle the paper chase again! hmmm…funny b/c I'm the one who has done the chasin! What's he talkin about?! Hee, hee. Yes, not adopting again will be very hard to do! I just want a number for #1!!! I know all about your crazy running days. Just when you feel you ran your head to get alot done and then….stop…u must take a step back in time to fix something in the line of paperwork. We are currently adopting 2 kiddos from Ethiopia. Here is our blog if you would like to follow. http://www.hernkekid.blogspot.com God Bless,  I’m patiently waiting for our finished home study to be completed and then approved by AGCI. We’ve got every last item in our dossier completed…but one thing we lacked until today was family pictures. I’ve been SO busy with portrait sessions and not a moment to schedule our own…so today after church and naps…I got […] Beautiful photos of your beautiful family! Those are some cute photos! Praying for your adoption! God is SO good! cute photos…GREAT memories!! WAIT FOR US! We are right behind you 🙂 Jenn Found you from another Ethiopian adoption blog. We are also about ready to turn in our dossier to AGCI. Looking forward to connecting more. Cris Love the photos…they definitely show the love you have for this baby. Can't wait to see a number on your page soon!!! I'm dying right along side you 🙂 I love the last picture of Frank! It will be really cool if we end up next to each other on the list! I think we will end up very very close to each other! If you're right in front of me then I will know when we're number one and that would be really nice 🙂 I think we're going to be going through this entire agonizing process together and hopefully we will get to celebrate together in Addis Ababa if we get in the same travel group! Great pictures!!! What a very cute family. We are waiting for our change of country form and then we can send our dossier in to Adoption ARK. It's driving me crazy because teh dossier is all ready to go out but we need that one paper!! We were with Russia for a year and all of our paperwork expired and now we are happy to be adopting 2 kiddos from Ethiopia!! Here is our blog: http://www.hernkekid.blogspot.com Keep the posts coming…I love reading them. God Bless, What a beautiful photo of you and your daughter. Your son apparently inherited the photographer gene. You are so close to The List! Wow I love your blog! You are amazing to me- all that you do and I can feel God's energy in all you say on your blog. I know you reached out to me some time ago about photography and I wanted to thank you for that. Your photos are so gorgeous and I cannot wait to see who God has in store for your family. Very soon you will be "ON THE LIST." It is a great feeling as we have only been on the list for a couple of months and our numbers keeping dropping. We cannot wait to know her. Take good care and God bless! Melanie  I’ve wanted to catch up on my blog all day—but it’s been a wild weekend and tonight is the first moment I’ve had to sit down and catch my breath! And there’s no way to write all our details from our film experience as it was just SO COOL…but I’ll do my best to share […] You are amazing!!!! God is incredible!!!! It is so much fun to hear your stories and to see what God is doing in your life. He truly has plans for you!!! I love you girl!!! WOW GIRL!!! You are too funny! What a wild experience!! How sweet to see your children in that experience too! But best of all I can't wait to hear what number you are!!! We are unofficially at #3! 😀 Super excited for you guys!! I can feel how much fun you had through your words. How exciting and a true adventure! It will be good preparation for your next adventure to Ethiopia. 🙂 I will have to see that movie! Isn't that all a hoot?! And don't my eyes look alienish in that last iphone picture! That is just wayyy cool. Man, you are famous!!!! Hey, you could promote adoption in your next film!!!! 🙂 YES! We are completely promoting adoption on our next shoot…Gwen of 147 orphans is sending shirts for Katherine and Josh! Fun, huh?! Wow! Hallelujah—look what the Lord has done! You are on one fun ride my cousin. Keep writing, you just may have a book to write one of these days. Again—-Wow! wow..so fun!! I'm just now getting caught up on emails..I'm so behind after not checking them while in Florida…So, how about breakfast on the 31st?? are you still up for it?? our house?? kids can run and play?? let me know 🙂 kristi Andrea…Had no idea all that was going on with your family. So exciting to hear about your adoption. I enjoyed reading about your journey. Thanks for sharing it with all of us! Also love hearing about how God is transforming your heart to be more like His. I will have to keep checking in to see when you get that little baby!! How cool! So thankful for the neat miracles our Lord does! Yeah! God is SO good! […] birthday scene). We filmed once in October (if you missed that post…you can read about it here and our follow up filming was on the 11th. We were asked to arrive around 3pm (meaning we had to […] […] My bestfriend Kelly has been selling the things our kiddos have outgrown on ebay for me b/c she is cool like that…so my xtra cash stash and then some is going to bless the Dockery adoption and TEN of you will new t-shirts! They have already been paid for–so all you have to do if you are a winner is email Abby (I’m sending all the winners an email with her email address)–give her your size AND address and it’ll be on it’s way. Abby already had the list of winners so she’s waiting to hear from… 1. Frank! (since it won’t fit him…he is donating his win to his momma…she’d like a small Abby!) 2. Julie @ Flitterbugs 3. Andrea – ourbiggadoption.blogspot.com 4. Sarah Hurst 5. Meredith – onedaycloseradoption.blogspot.com 6. Megan – thisdomesticdiva.blogspot.com 7. Christy – davisfamilymoments.blogspot.com 8. Mandy – campbellfamilypartyof3.com 9. April – from Canada! 10. Kelly Jo – oursomethingbeautiful.blogspot.com […] So…tomorrow my crew hits the set to be extras in the film “Life As We Know It” starring Josh Duhemal and Katherine Hiegl. You know the Youngs…we are always up to something off the beaten path and crazy! Another thing to mark off our bucket list: Be in a movie. So…we’ve gotten our instructions…getting our […] Sounds like a fun activity to me!!! I'm so excited to hear how this goes!! So fun!! You'll will steal the limelight i'm sure! OH MY WORD … so much fun !!!! If I had known I would have sent you a 147MillionOrphans funky baseball tee to wear … it looks great w/ skinny jeans … hee hee …. i am listening to your playlist now … the song WAITING is on and it has become my theme song !!! have a blast tomorrow and tell Katherine she rocks in the adoption world ! I would have loved to have sent her shirt also … hee hee done … here is my email … s.oatsvall@comcast.net … send me what size you think her hubby wears and what sizes you and your hubby want .. will send you guys a super cool package … how cool would that be for her to actually wear it out in public and have people see a star shouting to the world ORPHANS ARE REAL !!! so excited … |
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Andrea, Ethiopian food is my FAVORITE, but I haven't found any good restaurants around here… where are you going? Happy birthday to Richard! Today is my brother's 21st birthday and our nephew's 1st birthday, too. Big day! Thanks again for working with us on Monday. The little one slept hard and long after that. He wore himself out screaming for you! We continue to pray (and rejoice!) for you as you chase down this new little love. Keep the updates coming!
That is the only problem I have with foreign countries, the food! All I ate in East Asia was peanut butter sandwiches and chocolate ice cream from the man down the street. Oh, I hope Richard likes his wonderful meal! A lot of people like Ethiopian food! I guess I should try it!