Submitted!

On Thursday, October 24th our dossier was formally submitted to the government in Nadiya's country. Now we wait for our travel dates! We expect to receive dates in December and travel in January.

We are praising God for His faithfulness throughout our process thus far. It feels good to be done with the "paper chase."

As we wait to travel we will continue with our fundraising and begin to gather things we will need for our trip. Visiting Eastern Europe in the middle of winter is going to be quite an adventure!

Please continue to pray for our soon-to-be daughter. We cannot wait to hold her in our arms! I am going to have 15 months worth of kisses to plant on her sweet face :)

Paperwork update!

As of Thursday, our dossier is now in the hands of our in-country facilitation team! They will translate and notarize all the documents and then formally submit our dossier to the government. We will be notified when the dossier has been submitted and then the wait for travel dates begins!

If travel dates continue to be issued at the rate they have been for families recently, we would theoretically be invited to travel to Nadiya's country in mid to late December. There is a great likelihood, however, that due to the New Year and Orthodox Christmas holidays in EE, we will not be invited to travel until January.

Either way, it won't be long until we travel! I am beginning to put together lists of cold weather items that I need to start accumulating. Tonight I even searched for baby sized snow suits at our local consignment store :)

Please continue to pray for little Nadiya. Justin and I so yearn for the day we can hold her in our arms!

T-Shirt Time!

Monday 11/11 Update:

I will be ordering the shirts this evening. They should be shipped to me in the next 2 weeks. Thanks to everyone who ordered. Personally, I can't wait to start wearing mine :)

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Justin and I are super excited to roll out our next fundraiser! Money from every t-shirt purchase will go directly to our adoption fund. And seriously, these are some great looking shirts!

Keep reading for details on how to purchase your shirt.

As an extra incentive, the first 20 people to purchase a shirt will have the chance to win a $20 iTunes gift card! I will draw for a winner once we sell 20 shirts. 
Update: My dear friend Jenny was the winner of the gift card and insisted I keep it for another drawing. Let's keep this thing going :) The next 20 people to purchase a shirt will be entered to win the $20 iTunes card.
Sara G is the winner of the $20 iTunes card!

The Details:

Sizes Available: Adult XS-XXL

Shirt Cost: $20 (US shipping included for those who don't live near us)

How to purchase: Donate to our Reece's Rainbow FSP here. You can also write us a check or pay with cash if you prefer.

Send me an e-mail to let me know what size shirt you want! petersadopt13(at)gmail(dot)com

The last day to purchase shirts will be November 10th!

Shoes, shoes, and more shoes!

Ready to be amazed?

We ended up collecting 7,520 pairs of shoes! That's 8,340 pounds of shoes!! 

We will be paid $5,838 dollars for the shoes! Isn't that incredible??

To every single person who helped us by collecting shoes, donating shoes, or counting and sorting- thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of our hearts! Justin and I have felt so overwhelmed with love and support by our community during this time.

Piles in our living room, dining room, garage and driveway!

Counting the VERY last bag of shoes this morning!

Queen of the Hill

It took over two hours for the 2 men to load up and weigh all our shoes!

We are happy to have these shoes out of our house :)