Fundraising! Check out our new link above to support our adoption!!!

We are beginning the process of trying to raise money through fundraising. We've created a storefront through a wonderful organization called Just Love. All you need to do is buy some of their delicious Fair Trade Coffee and a portion of every purchase goes toward our adoption. It pairs two of our great loves: Adoption and Coffee!
Our goal is to raise enough money for our first big payment with the submission of our dossier (all of our international paperwork), which is $2,000 and then to pay for USCIS (Immigration and visa/fingerprint costs) which can be around $1,000.

We would love prayer as we work toward this goal and we'd be honored if you would partner with us on this journey!

Guerlens surgery

Tomorrow Guerlens has surgery.
He and I traveled to NY on Jan. 25th and Kev followed a few days later. Those first few days we spent at my brother and sister in laws in Long Island. My parents were able to drive up from Maryland and we had a great time visiting. It was such a gift that they were able to meet Guerlens! The 3 of us drove into NYC on the 28th where we stayed in a little studio apartment provided for the remainder of Guerlens stay. On Sunday we were able to do some sightseeing and we all got to ride the subway for the first time, which we loved! We saw the World Trade Center site, Battery Park and the Statue of Liberty and we took in Times Square. On Monday we were able to take Guerlens to his first appt. to get blood drawn and get some initial paperwork done. Everyone was amazing and just loved Guerlens! What is so wonderful about the apartment is that it is literally across the street from the hospital! Mallery came a few days later and we were all nice and snug in our studio:)
Last Thursday we came home, without Guerlens. We feel the absence of him and are missing him lots but know that he could not be in better hands.
God has made a way for this child, He has gone before Guerlens in every step of this journey!
Guerlens goes in for surgery around 1pm tomorrow. It should take a few hours. They will be reshaping his skull in surgery so there will be no need for a helmet, thank God! And he could be released in as little as 3 days! He should be ready to come back to MI around Feb. 20th. It's amazing how big of a surgery it seems but how quickly kids are able to recover from something like this and with no more pain than a headache.
Please join us in prayer over Guerlens, over the surgeons Dr. Staffenburg and Dr. Weiner and their team and for Mallery who is there with Guerlens.