Just so stinking cute!

It is just so hard waiting!    We were DTC 6/22/12.   Our LID is 7/5/12.   Our adoption coordinator tells us that travel is usually 5 and 1/2 months after LID.    That means it could be December or January before we get to travel.    We have been looking at her cute face since February.  

It probably wouldn't be so hard if she wasn't so stinking CUTE!

100 Good Wishes Quilts

I find that I have been  sorely lacking a slacker.    As with Moms of many, as more kids come along the less things get done.    In this case I have been very bad at keeping up with having a 100 Good Wishes quilt done for each girl.    RaeAnne has one.

ZoraLin has one.

And Kendalan has one.

And that is where the cookie this Mom crumbled :(

So now I am begging asking all any of you to please help this Mom out.    I need quilt squares and wishes!!    I am willing to return the favor if any of you have slacked as I have need squares too.    If you click on the link on this post that is highlighted "Good Wishes" it will take you to the site of Pam.   Pam has made all three quilts for us.   I hope to work with her again to get the last three girls quilts made.    However, as I have said...I NEED SQUARES!!   No I am not YELLING I am just stating the fact.   

So please help us out.    We are collecting 9 inch squares of preferably 100% prewashed cotton.   Along with the square send a separate piece of the material along with a "wish" which can be a thought, poem, statement or favorite quotation.    The wish can be on a 3x5 card and include your name and address so when the wishes are put in a scrap book and kept along with the quilt then the girls can see where the wish and fabric came from.    This is really fun to sit on the quilt and compare the fabric to the quilt.....I mean that is for the three girls who have quilts.

Quilt squares can be sent to us at:        The VanCamp Family

                                                                         137 E. 123rd Street

                                                                        Carbondale, KS 66414

This slacker mom Mom (and her girls) thank you SO much for participating!!!

And PLU...LEASE leave me comments...I need C.O.M.M.E.N.T.S. here people!!   I feel like I am talking to myself here!!!    

What I get.....

for complaining about the weather....the weather could and will get worse!!

I sure could use some winter weather right now.....

No matter how you spell it......

it is H~O~T!   Though it can also be spelled H~A~U~T~E.   It all means the same....torture!!

And this 7 day forecast is just making me tired!   Good thing the girls love to swim!

Oh Joy!!

I was looking at a waiting child advocacy site the other night and I ran across photos of our sweetie pie.   I noticed that the dates were June 2011 and at that time our girl was on another agency's waiting child list.    Their name for her was Avery and she was 4 years and 8 months old.  

I emailed one of the people from the agency to ask if they still had any of the video of her.   What a wonderful surprise to open my email today and find several videos of her and more photos!!   She is such a sweetie pie!!   And what a dancer!   The dance video is sideways and for the life of me, I do not know how to turn it right side up.     But here are the photos and a couple of the videos.

We just can't wait to get this beautiful girl home!!!

We Love you Linzi Rose MingShan!!!

Photo Book

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We have.....

Three great letters!!

Not as good as our TA, but we will take it!!   Another step closer to our caboose!!

Random photos

While most are celebrating the 4th with fireworks, we are staying inside where it is cool.     Pugston is scared to death of fireworks and is trying to hide under my feet!

Jordis with Bell's palsy.   Fortunately she is now able to blink BOTH her eyes and her smile is much more symmetrical!!

RaeAnne with her bestie, Hollie.   These two have been BFF's since Kindergarten even though they live over two hours apart.    Going to be in 7th grade this fall.  

Tessa, Lily and Haven.   For Haven's birthday the girls went to the hairsalon and received the works!  Of course, they are all cuties even without all the pretty hair!

Mom gets to pose with Jordis, Piper and Tessa at Joe's Crab Shack where we ate for Tessa's Birthday!
Yes....Tessa's doll is now known as Piper!

Jordis gets ready to put some muscle into eating crab legs!

Tessa dressed up as a cowgirl and rode her horse through Joe's Crab Shack to celebrate her birthday!!
YeeHaw!!

Fund Raising

There...I have gone and said it.    We will be doing some fund raising to bring Linzi Rose MingShan home.   I will be having one if not two large garage sales once the weather cools off a little.   I have things that I will be selling on Ebay.   I will be rounding up all the gold in our house that is not stuck on someone's finger and be melting it down.   I also hope to do a Scentsy on line party, maybe a Thirty-one party.   Anything we have to to get our girly home.    This along with my working as many extra shifts and hours that I can without running myself into the ground.

The hardest thing about doing all this.   I will have to learn how to ask for and accept help!   I was always taught that you should never ask anyone for help.   If someone asks you to help then you apply yourself and do the best you can.

We also want to be able to Pay-it-forward to another family after we get our girl home.   If anyone has
any ideas...please jump in!   Our daughter is waiting for us and we are very anxious to get her home!!