We will be in front of Walgreens in Conway next Friday and Saturday (November 19 & 20) selling coupon books, t-shirts, and blankets...If you can stop by and see us!!
Last weekend we attended an international adoption seminar in St. Louis. Ethan got to stay with his Meema for the weekend. He hd a great time and so did we. The seminar was great....we really learned lot about what to expect when Ivy comes home. Think we are going to be stressed for a while but it will worth it in the end! I am getting anxious....can't wait fo the wait to be over...when we are all finally settled in and together. Ethan wants a baby sister for Christmas....had to tell him maybe for his birthday in the summer! :( he is ready for her to be here now and so are we. Hopefully the wait will go fast and so will the fundraising. Right now it is the fundraising hodling us up. I will just keep praying and everything will happen in Gods time.
We are planning a winter fest with games, bouncy houses, Santa, and a silent auction. If you would like to volunteer we need around 20-25 people to help! It will be great fun! Hope to see yall there if you live around and can make it....I will post more info later when we have a place, date and time. :)
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
New Ideas
Well...It has been a really long time since I have updated my page and alot has happened since then. We scraped the game because we couldn't get enough interest. We are now selling blankets, coupon books, and t-shirts. We are very excited about the shirts. My brother Pat designed them, my mom modified them, and my dad colored them! I love my family!! They are all helping us so much.
We are now working on our home study, but are stuck on the financial end of it. We need to raise $3000 before we can go on to it. We have the $ for the home study but not the management fee. We are thinking about hosting a winter or fall fest, but don't know where to do it at! I am going to post the shirts online for purchase and try to setup a paypal account...not real sure how to do that though..hopefully won't be hard! One of the girls at work asked me how much they would have to raise to see my shave my head! Thought about that hard and told her $15000! and I would do it too! I think that they are actually going to try to do it. Told her we would put up a cash prize of 10% to the person who raised the most $$. Thought that was a pretty good prize!! But I won't shave my head for less than the $15000. I work with a great group of people who are so supportive and want to help as mush as they possibly can! I love them all!
Halloween is tomorrow!! and we already have more candy than we need from trick-or-treating at the daycare, the nursing home, and Boo at the Zoo and we still have to go real trick-or-treating!! Hope everyone is having a great and spooky Halloween!!
We are now working on our home study, but are stuck on the financial end of it. We need to raise $3000 before we can go on to it. We have the $ for the home study but not the management fee. We are thinking about hosting a winter or fall fest, but don't know where to do it at! I am going to post the shirts online for purchase and try to setup a paypal account...not real sure how to do that though..hopefully won't be hard! One of the girls at work asked me how much they would have to raise to see my shave my head! Thought about that hard and told her $15000! and I would do it too! I think that they are actually going to try to do it. Told her we would put up a cash prize of 10% to the person who raised the most $$. Thought that was a pretty good prize!! But I won't shave my head for less than the $15000. I work with a great group of people who are so supportive and want to help as mush as they possibly can! I love them all!
Halloween is tomorrow!! and we already have more candy than we need from trick-or-treating at the daycare, the nursing home, and Boo at the Zoo and we still have to go real trick-or-treating!! Hope everyone is having a great and spooky Halloween!!
Monday, July 19, 2010
Been awhile....
Well...It has been awhile since I have been on here! The game is not going very well. We have sold one corner ad on the board and 3 patron ads, but that won't produce the game. We missed the 1st deadline and are working on the 2nd. We have changed the game up several times to obtain interest but people just are not biting. We are still trying but it is getting very frustrating. I was so hoping it would work because it would have generated a large amount of $$. Keep praying for us and our success. We do have other projects in the works such as blankets, dresses, and coupon books for sale. I lost my friends and family letter when our computer crashed and now have to rewrite it from scratch. Oh well...once Ivy is here, we can tell her about all the obstacles we had to overcome to finally bring her home :o)
We received application #2 and I am trying to fill it out, but man the paperwork is mind boggling!! It alone is complicated enough....
I am going to have to have my gallbladder removed next month...during my time off I guess I will have time to sit and fill all kinds of stuff out! My friend at work says that recovery is usually 3-6 wks. So I will have plenty of time...
We received application #2 and I am trying to fill it out, but man the paperwork is mind boggling!! It alone is complicated enough....
I am going to have to have my gallbladder removed next month...during my time off I guess I will have time to sit and fill all kinds of stuff out! My friend at work says that recovery is usually 3-6 wks. So I will have plenty of time...
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Businesses involved in game
So far we have sold a few ads. The following businesses are getting involved:
Academy at Riverdale (hopefully buying a corner ad and maybe putting pic on front)
Wilsons Home Improvement (hopefully buying corner ad or sponsoring the $$)
Riverview Healthcare Center (patron ad)
Kicks Active Wear (patron ad)
Blue Ribbon Antiques (patron ad)
Hortons Orthotics (hopefully buying game ad)
We want to thank those businesses for their support and will be posting others as the buy ads.
Love you all,
Academy at Riverdale (hopefully buying a corner ad and maybe putting pic on front)
Wilsons Home Improvement (hopefully buying corner ad or sponsoring the $$)
Riverview Healthcare Center (patron ad)
Kicks Active Wear (patron ad)
Blue Ribbon Antiques (patron ad)
Hortons Orthotics (hopefully buying game ad)
We want to thank those businesses for their support and will be posting others as the buy ads.
Love you all,
Monday, May 31, 2010
New Game Title
Ok so we are renaming the game Arkansasopoly so that anyone and everyone can participate! We have sold ads in Little Rock, Conway, and Morrilton but still have a long way to go and a very short time to do it in. We thank everyone one that has made a commitment to buying an ad!! God Bless you all
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Selling Ads
I have spent 2 days attempting to sell the ads for our "Little Rockopoly" game and am exhausted. I dropped off approximately 50-60 brochures at various businesses and am awaiting many call backs. I have had several businesses confirm their willingness to participate and others that told me this was one of the most creative fundraisers that they had seen! I am very excited and encouraged by the feedback that I received this weekend. I am excitedly anticipating future phone calls confirming participation and discussion of ad placement and setup. My husband has a friend at work (who also just adopted a little boy from China) who is trying to help us sell the ads and has given us 4 names of businesses that he has already talked with and have said "yes". We definitely appreciate the help. We are very excited about this game and hope that everyone participating is just as excited. We are now this much closer to bringing home Ivy!!-----Love your sister in Christ
Monday, May 10, 2010
Background Info
Reposting this to make it easier to find if you are reading this blog for the first time because you received an email on our "Little Rockopoly game".
I have began this blog to tell you a little about my family and to ellicit some help.
My name is Tiffany. I was born in Mississippi, the 3rd of 4 children and the only girl. All my life I have dreamed of the family that I would once have, never seeing few children in my future. I have always wanted a big family so I was devasted when I ran into infertility problems after getting married. But before I go into that, let me tell you a little more about my past.
I was always a very healthy child, never sick...until my sophmore year in high school. I began to feel very weak and winded. I thought that I was sure getting out of shape..even though I went dancing every weekend and was in gymnastics. I really didn't know what was going on. That January, I turned 16. Like any ordinary teenager, I got to have the car that weekend and took my friends "cruising" town. We had so much fun that night. Little did I know what was about to happen. My birthday was on the 13th. On the 19th, my mother woke me up, told me to take a shower (not to put any makeup on), and to get ready to go to the doctor (again). This was not my 1st visit. This was probably the 4 or 5. We had already been to my PCP and the ENT because of a swollen lymph node behind my right ear that was soo big my friends were teasing me about having a tumor. (Boy did they feel bad later!!)
That morning, I was so tired that I didn't want to do anything. I got up, took a shower, and did what my mom said to do. As we walked into the doctor's office, I could hear to nurses talking to one another. I was so white that they could not beleive that I was walking on my own. This doctor's visit, the doctor took blood for the 1st time and sent us home with iron pills for anemia. I went home and crashed on the couch. The next thing I knew, my mom was waking me up and telling me to get in the car. I was so confused. My dad was home in the middle of a work day and my mom had packed our bags. I was told that we were going to Arkansas Children's Hospital but nothing else. (oh yeah did I forget to mention we moved to Arkansas)
At Children's, the news was finally broke to me. I had leukemia (ALL--acute lymphacytic leukemia). I underwent 2 1/2 yrs of chemotherapy, lost all my hair, and missed 1/3 of my sophmore year in school (however my teachers found it in their hearts to send my work home to me). I tried to be positive through everything even though I occassionally got boughed down by the chemo or by loosing my hair again after it had begun to come back in.
Good did come from this time in my life. I met my husband during this time. I was ball headed and he had just come home from the Army. We had mutual friends and had both stopped to talk to them "cruising town" (on one of the few nights that my mom let me out of the house). We instantly hit it off and have been together for 15 years (married for 11 of those). He has seen me during my worst and best times. His friends use to ask him "who the little boy was riding in the truck with him", but it never bothered him.
Years later after high school and during my last semester in college, we got the news that I was pregnant. We were so excited but the pregnancy was accompanied by appendicitis. Following a appendectomy the doctor said that the baby was fine. We were elated until our 1st miscarriage. I was 4 1/2 months along and devastated. A year later, we got pregnant again. Worried but excited again, I found myself trying to do everything right. At our visit to hear the heartbeat, we found out that I had had another miscarriage at 7 wks. Devastated is putting it lightly. I fell into a pretty deep depression. Crying myself to sleep nightly.
When we decided to try again, I was terrified. I didn't think I could go through it again. I got pregnant again and this time with the help of my doctor (who saw me weekly because I was always frightened something was going wrong), I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. He came 3 weeks early and I was on bed rest for 6 weeks but everyday that I look into his face, I know that he is a gift from GOD!!
I couldn't have been happier until my son was 6 months old and I found out that I was pregnant again. Scared but very happy, I called the doctor. This pregnancy ended in disaster too but was alot easier to take since I had my precious little boy.
My son is the light of my life, my little miracle baby, but I still have that desire for a larger family. He is now 3 1/2 and wants a baby sister badly. We have not prevented getting pregnant since the last miscarriage but have not been pregnant since (3 yrs). I really don't want to be pregnant again and neither does my loving husband. In the last year or 2, we have felt a very strong pull to adopt. We started the process last June through DHS but have decided that we want to adopt internationally.
Now I have finally come to the reason that I began this blog.....We need your help! Adoption is a very expensive process and we are now in major fundraising mode. We will be posting ways that you can help us in the days to come and I will be keeping you updated on our progress along with family news and decisions. I am very excited about this blog and plan on trying to write something on it daily. Please keep us in your prayers and check in with us often to see how we are doing. Our goal is to raise $30,000 and so far with our 1st fundraisers (Rhea Lana and Duck Duck Goose consignment sales and blankets), we have raise $1200. Not much but it is a start:)
Well it is getting late and I need to go to bed......Love your sister in Christ
I have began this blog to tell you a little about my family and to ellicit some help.
My name is Tiffany. I was born in Mississippi, the 3rd of 4 children and the only girl. All my life I have dreamed of the family that I would once have, never seeing few children in my future. I have always wanted a big family so I was devasted when I ran into infertility problems after getting married. But before I go into that, let me tell you a little more about my past.
I was always a very healthy child, never sick...until my sophmore year in high school. I began to feel very weak and winded. I thought that I was sure getting out of shape..even though I went dancing every weekend and was in gymnastics. I really didn't know what was going on. That January, I turned 16. Like any ordinary teenager, I got to have the car that weekend and took my friends "cruising" town. We had so much fun that night. Little did I know what was about to happen. My birthday was on the 13th. On the 19th, my mother woke me up, told me to take a shower (not to put any makeup on), and to get ready to go to the doctor (again). This was not my 1st visit. This was probably the 4 or 5. We had already been to my PCP and the ENT because of a swollen lymph node behind my right ear that was soo big my friends were teasing me about having a tumor. (Boy did they feel bad later!!)
That morning, I was so tired that I didn't want to do anything. I got up, took a shower, and did what my mom said to do. As we walked into the doctor's office, I could hear to nurses talking to one another. I was so white that they could not beleive that I was walking on my own. This doctor's visit, the doctor took blood for the 1st time and sent us home with iron pills for anemia. I went home and crashed on the couch. The next thing I knew, my mom was waking me up and telling me to get in the car. I was so confused. My dad was home in the middle of a work day and my mom had packed our bags. I was told that we were going to Arkansas Children's Hospital but nothing else. (oh yeah did I forget to mention we moved to Arkansas)
At Children's, the news was finally broke to me. I had leukemia (ALL--acute lymphacytic leukemia). I underwent 2 1/2 yrs of chemotherapy, lost all my hair, and missed 1/3 of my sophmore year in school (however my teachers found it in their hearts to send my work home to me). I tried to be positive through everything even though I occassionally got boughed down by the chemo or by loosing my hair again after it had begun to come back in.
Good did come from this time in my life. I met my husband during this time. I was ball headed and he had just come home from the Army. We had mutual friends and had both stopped to talk to them "cruising town" (on one of the few nights that my mom let me out of the house). We instantly hit it off and have been together for 15 years (married for 11 of those). He has seen me during my worst and best times. His friends use to ask him "who the little boy was riding in the truck with him", but it never bothered him.
Years later after high school and during my last semester in college, we got the news that I was pregnant. We were so excited but the pregnancy was accompanied by appendicitis. Following a appendectomy the doctor said that the baby was fine. We were elated until our 1st miscarriage. I was 4 1/2 months along and devastated. A year later, we got pregnant again. Worried but excited again, I found myself trying to do everything right. At our visit to hear the heartbeat, we found out that I had had another miscarriage at 7 wks. Devastated is putting it lightly. I fell into a pretty deep depression. Crying myself to sleep nightly.
When we decided to try again, I was terrified. I didn't think I could go through it again. I got pregnant again and this time with the help of my doctor (who saw me weekly because I was always frightened something was going wrong), I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. He came 3 weeks early and I was on bed rest for 6 weeks but everyday that I look into his face, I know that he is a gift from GOD!!
I couldn't have been happier until my son was 6 months old and I found out that I was pregnant again. Scared but very happy, I called the doctor. This pregnancy ended in disaster too but was alot easier to take since I had my precious little boy.
My son is the light of my life, my little miracle baby, but I still have that desire for a larger family. He is now 3 1/2 and wants a baby sister badly. We have not prevented getting pregnant since the last miscarriage but have not been pregnant since (3 yrs). I really don't want to be pregnant again and neither does my loving husband. In the last year or 2, we have felt a very strong pull to adopt. We started the process last June through DHS but have decided that we want to adopt internationally.
Now I have finally come to the reason that I began this blog.....We need your help! Adoption is a very expensive process and we are now in major fundraising mode. We will be posting ways that you can help us in the days to come and I will be keeping you updated on our progress along with family news and decisions. I am very excited about this blog and plan on trying to write something on it daily. Please keep us in your prayers and check in with us often to see how we are doing. Our goal is to raise $30,000 and so far with our 1st fundraisers (Rhea Lana and Duck Duck Goose consignment sales and blankets), we have raise $1200. Not much but it is a start:)
Well it is getting late and I need to go to bed......Love your sister in Christ
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