Our Adoption Tshirts! & a little blessing

Ive known all along that I wanted to do adoption T-shirts

I may or may not have a dream of seeing our adoption supporting t-shirts all over town:-)

Ive been playing with designs for months, I just wanted something GOOD on the shirts

and I couldn't come up with ANYTHING Good!

THEN, I was at home,working on home study paper work and it came to me!

For years God kept placing the word "more" on my heart

and for years I almost drove myself crazy trying to figure out what that "more" meant.

More WHAT?!!!

Through this process I think God is revealing what the "more" is.

Do More. Be More. LOVE MORE!

and then an adoption support shirt was born!

https://www.bonfirefunds.com/be-more-do-more-love-more-hall-adoption

and in 24 hours we've sold 10 shirts!

Go GOD Go!!!

xoxo-

Ashley

Oh yea! My blessing story!

So just as I was leaving work the other day a woman came in in Labor, completely dilated and ready to push. AND she brought with her the adoptive parents of her baby boy!

Even though it was time to leave, I clocked out and stayed for the delivery.

It was amazing! Amazing to watch a family be born,

and amazing to watch the interaction between birth momma and adoptive family!

It was such a blessing to be able to watch that!

I had been in a funk for the last few days and being there just got me soo excited again!

God is good isn't he?

Fundraiser #2! YARDSALE!

Spring Cleaning?

Donate to a great cause!

We are collecting gently loved items for our

ADOPTION YARDSALE!

June 21st and 22nd

9am-5pm

Drop off donations:

Friday June 20th 1-9pm

208 Lauren Lane Canton, Ga 30115

Visit our website!

www.notshowingstillglowing.blogspot.com

And so it begins!

We have finally signed on with our adoption consultants!

We decided to join with Christian Adoption Consultants

 after my chance run in with Malcolm (owner) at Starbucks :-)

I may have already written about that but basically I was

talking to a girl friend about what an adoption consultant was and

how we had looked into another company in the area.

Malcolm over heard, came over, gave us his card and I just really felt

like God just plopped him down right in front of us!

It just felt right in going with them :-)

Our Consultant is Susan and after talking to her on the phone back in November,

and just hearing such good things about her I am so excited we get to partner with her specifically!

She also is very knowledgeable in adoptive breast feeding

 (did you even know there was such a thing?)

That's a WHOLE OTHER POST;-)

anywho

I can not explain the emotions once finally hit send on our payment to CAC.

Excitement was the first one!

I cant believe this is finally starting!!

eEEEEK!

and then after the day went on, and I started receiving information on

the home study,

fundraising ideas,

back ground checks,

talking to birth mothers,

Packing lists for Birth day

etc

NERVOUS!!!!!!

HOLY MOLY!

this is REALLY happening!

and it could be soon!

It was nuts!

I couldn't even sleep that night!

I just started thinking about all that we needed to do!

With all of that said, yes we are super nervous but we are OH SO EXCITED!!!

I also called and spoke to the person who will be doing our home study,

and she really calmed my nerves about the whole thing!

We have already started the personal study questionnaire and

will hopefully be having our first meeting in just a few weeks! :-)

One step closer!!

Ashley

You guys are AWESOME!-Adoption auction totals

Wow!

I'm completely blown away by how blessed we have been!

Our adoption auction ran for 7 days and it raise $1078!

And we received an amazing $3000 from someone from our church!

We now have enough to REALLY start the adoption process!

EEEKKK! so excited!

Now to make some decisions!!!!

XOXO,

Ashley

Our 1st fundraiser is LIVE!:)

above are the 3 links to our adoption auction sites. If you feel lead to help us by bidding or even sharing please know that we will be forever grateful!

Thank you thank you!!

HAPPY EASTER!

HE IS ALIVE!!!!

www.32auctions.com/halladoption

www.32.auctions.com/halladoption2

www.32auctions.com/halladoption3

Adoption Auction

I am SO excited!

This Sunday, Easter Sunday we will launch our Adoption Auction!

The Amount of amazing people that stepped forward and donated is nothing short of amazing!

I had people contacting me through Facebook that I had never even met before!

I am so excited to see how God is glorified through all of this!

His hand no doubt is all over our auction!

Here is the "flyer" we will be passing out and posted EVERYWHERE next week!

And here are some of the amazing things donated!

-several photography session

-one month online fitness training

-Origami Owl

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-Tastefully Simple Gift Basket

-Hand Lettered Prints and Cards

-Hand Knitted scarves and even an Afghan

-Car detailing

-1 Organic Spray Tan

-Earring and Necklace from Bumbers Bumblings

and so much more!

Things are starting to get so real now! 

Our first step was to get into a home and now that that is done 

its FULL STEAM AHEAD with fundraising!

HERE WE COME BABY HALL!!

-xoxo

Ash

We are homeowners!

SHEESH! FINALLY!

That's pretty much all I could say after left the attorneys office with the key to our new home!

The process of buying a house was NOT easy and was super duper frustrating at times!

Of course the house we fell in love with was a short-sale (not to be mistaken for a home that takes a short amount of time to sell LOL)

From the day we put in a bid to having the keys in our hands was 4 1/2 months. 4 1/2 LOOOONNNNG months!

And there were AT LEAST 3 times where we thought everything was going to fall through and I had myself almost convinced that God was saying this house just wasn't for us.

Turns out he was giving me a good ol' dose of PATIENCE!

When all is said and done we are LOVING our new home and I cant WAIT to bring baby Hall home to it one day!

(I may or may not be designing a nursery in my head already ;-)

Isn't she beautiful! :)

God is GOOD!