God's Continued Blessing - 241 pieces sold!

This week has been such a blessing! Just as I was feeling discouraged, some money was given for our puzzle from a few different families, which brought our count up to 241! Wow were we reminded of God's providence and His grace in our lives! Our adoption profile was sent out about 14 times in November, so that is encouraging, we are just waiting on the Lord's timing and we know it will happen with His help. 

This is a hard journey, but a good one... it has really taught me reliance on the Lord and not on my own power. Please continue to pray for the process - our hearts, and our future family. Thanks for all your prayers and support! We feel so loved! 

172 pieces sold and update.

We are up to 172 pieces this week! Thanks to all who have given towards our adoption.

We had some unfortunate news this week. About 2 weeks ago, Angel Adoption contacted us and we were actually assigned to a birth mother. We sent $500 to her attorney so they could meet for the first time. After that meeting, no one has heard from the birth mother. The lawyer and Angel Adoption attempted to contact her, and there is still no word. I heard on Thursday that they are closing the file on her and we are moving on. I was crushed... having already given my heart to that little unborn baby. We also lost that $500, because it went to pay for the first meeting. Its been hard, but it actually reaffirmed our commitment to adopt.

Please continue to pray for us and our hearts... we need to live out the verse "For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." - Jer. 29:11

We trust the Lord in all things, but some days it is harder to live out then other days. Please pray for patience and trust, as well as our relationship with each other as we prepare our hearts and home for the little bundle that will hopefully soon bless our lives.

162 sold!

Thanks to all who have been praying as well as donating towards our adoption. We are truly blessed each week, to see Gods grace and provision. The amount so far is $1,600.00 through this puzzle fundraiser!

I was truly blessed and encouraged this past week. I attended a teacher conference for two days, with my staff from OVCS, and it was truly amazing! Not only were the sessions encouraging and energizing, I also saw two old PBU classmates and got to catch up with them. The blessing was that one of them is also adopting and it was just an encouragement to speak with her about their process and learn that they have had some hurtful things said to them that is similar to some things said to us. Its a shame those things have been said, but its encouraging to know we are not alone.

Please continue to pray for us, for our hearts, our journey as well as the process of raising the money for the little life to hopefully bless our lives someday soon!

Here is the pic of the puzzle so far:

138 pieces sold!

Today we have reached 138 total pieces sold, that is $1,380.00 donated towards our adoption... Praise the Lord! But we still have quite a ways to go. Please pray that God would provide as well as open doors and close doors when needed.

We also heard that the house we put an offer on (way back in March) is finally moving a little bit forward. It is a short sale and they are waiting for the appraisal and title, then we will see what happens next. So that is a blessing, and we are praying they not only accept our offer, but that we can close on it before the snow hits! What a blessing it would be to in our house prior to adopting, but we know the Lord has everything under His control, and that is truly our only comfort during these times.

A little glimpse from my heart this week: I had a rough week because we are not pregnant... again... (yes we still want to adopt even if the Lord blesses us with one of our own.) Then I hear people complain about their children and say things like "Kelly, you're lucky you don't have to deal with that"... I wish we were dealing with those things! I know people don't think about such things and I pray constantly that I would not be so sensitive about comments. It just stings a little bit more each month. It is a comfort to know that the Lord has it all under control, but sometimes it's harder then other times.

October 4th marks our 3 year anniversary! I am so happy that the Lord saw fit for us to get married... Justin has been such a blessing in my life and really keeps me grounded :) He bought me a beautiful sterling silver charm necklace with the August birthstone in it (that would have been our baby's birth month) and we can just add more birthstones to it when we have kids (Lord willing).

Thank you for all your prayers and support during this waiting period in our lives. Please continue to pray for our hearts and that the Lord would provide!

129 sold!

We are now up to 129 pieces sold! We are continuing to pray that the Lord would bless us with the money as well as the newborn that He has chosen for us! We are easily discouraged, and do envy your prayers during this time of waiting and leaning on the Lord. We are quite often reminded that being a part of the Lords family is the perfect example of what adoption looks like. Thank the Lord we were chosen and adopted by His family, and we are praying that He chooses one for us to adopt into our family and then ultimately they will be a part of His family. There is no greater gift for which we can pray.

Cant wait to see it finished!!

119 down...!!

We have now sold 119 pieces... what a blessing it is to see God working! We are continuing to pray for patience as we wait for the pieces to be sold, as well as waiting for word on the little one that will someday bless our hearts and home.

Thank you in advance for giving as well as praying for us on our journey, we are so blessed to have friends and family who support us in so many ways.

Keep coming back for more updates and pictures :) check out the angel adoption website link to the right to read more about our story. Above all please continue to pray! God Bless.

103 pieces sold!!

This week we were blown away by the Lord blessing us and the count is up to 103 pieces! We have 397 more pieces to "sell" to meet our goal. Thank you to all the many people who have donated to help us in our journey, as well as all the many prayers that are being said... we truly feel the Lord working in our lives.

Please continue to pray that the Lord would prepare our hearts as well as give us the patience to wait on Him for His timing and His will.

You can see the cliffs forming! Its so fun to add more pieces with names on them each day!

We cant wait to see this finished!



46 Pieces purchased!

This past week the total has been brought up to 46 pieces.. thanks to all the prayers and donations by a few of God's faithful people. There is still no word on a birthmother choosing us, so please pray that the Lord would see fit for a new life to be brought into our home soon.

Last week we were also blessed by friends of ours, who are photographers, when they took some pics of us to update our adoption profile. We're very excited to see the final product and send it to the agency for our packet. Its exciting to see God work through His people as well as being blessed by our friends.

Please continue to pray for us on this journey, that the Lord would do as He wills, and that we would be patient while we wait :).

Here is a pic what the puzzle looks like so far... the front and back with the names written on it:

18 pieces purchased!

Wow, what a blessing the last 2 weeks has been! The Sunday that we put fundraiser letters in our church family's mailboxes, one member wrote a check that day to buy our first puzzle piece! Since then we have had 3 others that made up the 18 pieces! We are very encouraged by this and cant wait to see how much more God is going to accomplish.

I was also pleasantly surprised when I asked for a few pictures of us to be taken by some old friends (the photographers at our wedding), they offered to do it for free as their donation! We will be getting new pictures taken for our adoption profile... We are so excited :) We'll post a few on here when they are complete.

Here is a pic of what the puzzle looks like so far:

The Puzzle has arrived!

I had a great suprise in the mail today!! Our puzzle of Portland Head Light has arrived and now we will eargerly await to put it together piece by piece, through prayer and God's grace.

Here it is :)

Can't wait to see it finished!

Puzzle Fundraiser

We are patiently awaiting the arrival of our 500 piece puzzle - check back for updates.

While you wait, if you would like to read more about our story, please click this link to see our profile on the angel adoption website - http://www.angeladoptioninc.com/component/option,com_family/Itemid,138/id,316/view,detail/