PASSPORTS ARE HERE!!!!!!!

Well, that was very very quick! I just answered the door to the mail lady with Express Mail packages that have our Passports! :) I left Bobby's for him to get the joy of opening when he wakes up to get ready for work tonight. He is on nights for half this month. But I have mine in my hand! I am so excited! I have never even seen a passport before and now I have one with my name on it! :) The picture is not good but who cares! I am goin to Taiwan! God is so increadibly good! Seein this passport makes it feel even more real! :) Now I am free to travel to Taiwan and get my son! Well, as soon as the taiwan courts say I can! lol But still I can leave the country! heehee I NEVER would have thought I would WANT to leave the country! I cant wait to get on that plane! YES those who know me can faint now that I said that. YES I am still scared a bit but OH MY GOSH I get the blessed opportunity to travel to my son's birth country and SEE his country, meet the people who have cared for him, see where he has lived from birth! I get to hold all that in my heart and pictures and share it all with Noah when he is older :) What a blessing! So even though I am scared I know the plane is my friend! LOL :) I am still in shock how fast it happend! less than a week techinically because we applied at like 4 in afternoon last friday and it is in my hands by about noon today! :) YIPEEE!!!

We have sold 34 plates so far for the Chicken Spaghetti sale on Tuesday! :) I still have the VA hospital to turn in orders and they ordered from 20 to 30 plates the last 2 times. Prayin that God will lead a few more sales our way too :)

Working on planning the big rummage sale. My friend Mamma Helen has said we can have it at there Church since it is closer than our Church and we wont have to spend so much on gas driving it all out to our Church. She is going to try and take off and help trasport stuff and help with the sale :) YIPEE :) Prayin we can get alot of folks to help :)

NOAH my precious baby boy! We are working and doing all we can think of to rasie the money to come get you sweetie :) WE LOVE YOU ALWAYS AND FOREVER Catch our kisses in the wind baby boy!
Mommy and Daddy

Happenings

Well, I found out today that the grant we received is to be dispursed to us AFTER all fees are paid and Noah's adoption is final. Sooo, that means it wont be a help in raising the money at this point, unless we can find a source to borrow the $4000 with the knowledge that they will receive it back as soon as adoption is final. So may prayers needed on that front. We are so blessed and thankful for the grant but a little taken aback that it does not go towards the fees we need to raise now. Tomorow we have a small Sloppy Joe Sale our of our kitchen. Everyone is just too busy to do a bunch of big sales so I will need to do a buncha buncha smaller ones. This one is ending up even smaller than I thought it would be but I reckon that is ok. It must be the way God wanted it for my first sale with just Bobby and I. God so worked it that Bobby is off tomorow! YIPEEE :) Thank you Jesus! I will have his help :) We have sold $38 plates and 7 of them are double sandwhich plates so that is good. It is not alot of profit but every bit helps and alot of the supplies (plates, picnic packs, etc we have plenty to do next week sale as well so next week will be much more profit. All we will have to purchase should be the actual food :) The plates will have sloppy Joe or 2, baked beans, chips, and a homemade chocolate cake with powder sugar dusting :) I pray that folks are pleased and so we will have repeat customers for next week. Next week we are doing a Chicken Spaghetti plate with italian green beans, garlic bread and a dessert. We are hopin for it to be a bit larger of a sale. We are tryin to work out getting some help to do a rummage Sale. We have alot of stuff so that is good. Any ideas yall have for raisin funds let me know. :)



Noah my sweet baby boy, mommy and daddy are trying so hard to get everything done and raise all the money and come and get you :) We CAN'T WAIT to hold you in our arms and hug and kiss you and pray over you and just spend time playing with you. Hold on my baby boy, and catch my kisses in the wind!



WE LOVE YOU NOAH!

Mommy and Daddy

The ups and downs in a day

Well, today has had many ups and downs. More ups than downs though, thank you JESUS! \o/ :) Bobby and I and Samuel had a day of adoption errands :) We had to go and make alot of copies and get some things ready to mail out :) We went to the bank and opened a Sisemore Adoption Fund Donation Account! That was so neat to have an account just for fund for bringing our sweet Noah home :) I am not real sure how others are able to donate to it but I know they can. It is at the Barksdale Federal Credit Union in Bossier City, LA. Folks would say they want to donate to The Sisemore Adoption Fund #13634733. That was neat to get that up and running. We also had to get some things notarized and all so we got all that done :) We went and dropped off some Sloppy Joe Plate Sale Flyers at the DMV and also left on at the Credit Union. Prayin we can sell some plates to some of them :) We went to the post office and got our passports applied for and did expediated services so PRAY they come quickly :) We will need them in order for our paperwork to go to Taiwan. We mailed off a good amount of what is left for our Dossier to our agency :) We still need a few more papers that we are waiting to get back from the different places and we need to get our pictures together and all :) All of that went very well. We also mailed our homestudy into the USCIS. When we got home we had gotten something from USCIS and I was soo very excited because I thouht maybe it was our fingerprint appointment. No such luck. :( It was our I-600A back. They said we sent it to the wrong office. Now when I went to their website before I ever sent it in the website told me to send it to that office so I am totally upset and confused! ugggh Especially since our homestudy is now on its way to the wrong place. They gave me an address to send it to now and I am prayin that is the right place. Bobby wants to call and talk to them on Monday before we send anything off again. So that was kinda a down. I am tryin VERY hard to not let it get me down or worry. Also when I checked the status of timeframe with the place where they say we are to file they are months behind the other one. I am leaving it all in YOUR hands Jesus! Thank you Lord that YOU know where it is to go and that we need it back to travel :) Then this evening I hear from our agency that we have received a $4000 grant towards adopitng Noah! \o/ Praise you Lord Jesus!!!! Hallelujah! God is so awesome! That is goin to be a HUGE help towards our boy! :) I am soo excited and am doin a happy dance :) We did here the orphange fee is goin up but are not sure how that will affect Noah's case so we have ALOT of prayin to do in all of this! Then on top of that good news :) I got new pics of my boy!!!!! :) So presenting Noah WesLee Sisemore's newest picture! He is a few days shy of 9 months old in this shot!

Isn't he the most precious creature you ever did see???? :) I am so in love :) He looks like he is very inquisitive about the camera. I think he is sayin, humm how do I get them to give me that let me play with that thing! :) heehee Being able to look upon this face made my entire day! :) He does not look like he has grown alot this past month or changed a whole lot but it is another picture :) another connection with my sweet little man! :)

Thanks for all the prayers and love yall :) Please continue to pray! We have a long way to go financially and in every way but God is Able! :)

Noah honey Mommy and Daddy are working so very hard sweetie. We are really trying to get to you as soon as we can. God loves you sweetie and He is helpin us too! :) Catch my kisses in the wind sweet baby! :) I love you! Mommy

Noah is 9 months old today!

Well, my baby boy is 9 months old today! I pray he had a good day :) I was told that we should get some new pics soon and last month they took pics on the 20th! So I am prayin to get some tomorow :) Well, I guess Monday since the agency wont be open on Sunday. Please keep our little man in your prayers. We are prayin so so hard that we have him in our arms in time for his first Birthday in April! God is Able!!!!!!

Have a blessed weekend all!

Noah, mommy and daddy are blowin you kisses in the wind sweet angel boy!

What a day! :)

Well, all the Contracts and fee and the I-600A and fees were all delivered and signed for this morning! YAY!!! :) So prayerfully we will hear some news back on each of those very quickly :) Also, today at 12:50 pm I got our FINAL notarized homestudy with supporting documents in my hands!!!! YIPPEEEEE! FINALLY :) I am so so happy :) doin a happy dance beyond belief. So many major steps bein taken this week. Noah we are getting closer baby boy! :) Mommy loves you. Catch the kissses in the wind baby boy! :)

Contract and I-600 and Fees on their way!!!!

EXCITING DAY!!!!! :) Bobby and I went to the credit union and got 2 Cashier's Checks and then went to FedEx Kinkos and we FedEx'd off our contract and a check for a lump sum payment to Heartsent!!! YIPEEEEE!!!!!!! Thank you JESUS! :) We also FedEx'd off our I-600A and those fees!!!! GOD IS SO GOOD! :) It is soo nice to have those 2 things done! YAY! :) We are 2 steps closer to our precious baby boy!! Please pray that these will arrive by first thing tomorow morning as promised! :) We are waiting for word on what other things we need to gather for the dossier and what the next steps are :) Also, our homestudy agency folks are back in town and are tryin to get our final draft done and notarized today for me to come get copies tomorow. Praying that happens. We need to get copies to Heartsent of the final and also to USCIS and for a few grant and loan places. That is a huge step once the final copies are in our hands! :)

Noah honey we are working so very hard baby boy! :) We love you and we cant wait to come get you!!!!!

BBQ Plate Sale a Success!

The BBQ Plate Sale was an awesome success today!! YIPEEE! We had so much wonderful help from our Church family and things went off very very well. The day did not begin so good when Bobby's Van broke down on the way to the sell. We had to leave it on the side of the road, squeeze Bobby and as much as we could fit in the car with Celeste and I and all the stuff we had and go on to the Church. A dear friend loaned her van for Bobby to go get the rest of the stuff in his van and then also for him to use for his route of BBQ plate deliveries! :) We sold a total of 279 Plates and delivered the marjority of them with 7 drivers! :) Yipeee :) We ran out of beans and had to go to the restraunt that had donated them and buy some more and so that was kinda a kink but worked out and we also ran out of desserts and a friend ran to a store and bought some more. Not quite sure how it happend but there ya go :) We had quite a few donations so we did not have as many expenses coming out of the proceeds! :) The baby fund is growing and growing, praise God!! We still need continues prayers for it to continue on and on. We have a long way to go but God is faithful! Thank you Jesus! :) Praying for other fundraisers to keep the money coming in and just prayin in general that God will send it one way or another! I know that my God is Able!

Thanks so much to all my friends and Church family who helped us today. We could NEVER have pulled this off without you guys! :) May God richly bless you for your help and love and care of us and our sweet baby boy Noah! NOAH, mommy and Daddy are gettin closer and closer to you sweetie! :) Catch my kisses in the wind little man! WE LOVE YOU!