Mirabelle is here!!

Well, it took several long hours of hanging out in the cell phone waiting lot at Tampa International, but Mirabelle make it here early Friday, July 27th! When she saw me she was so excited she ran to hug me!!

After over 24 hours of solid travel, our Chinese "daughter" is here to spend her entire Junior year at North Port High School. Over the past few days she been doing a lot of sleeping, trying new foods, bought her first pair on sunglasses and is tuning her ear to the English language. At the moment, she depends on me to clairfy everything she is hearing (I guess all that studying of English language learners in grad school is paying off), but her spoken English is getting better every day! She is  very excited to meet other American teenagers, LOVES playing with Gena and even gave Tabetha a bath last night.

Last night I helped her set up her own FB page, which she chose to have in English, not Chinese! So if you are on FB look her up, Mirabelle Wu, NPHS Class of 2014. She would love to have more friends! This week we are headed to get her an American cell phone, buy some school clothes, and hopefully get her enrolled in classes, wish us luck!!!


Blessings,

Dawn

Our Thirty-one Fundraiser is Here!!

Our friend Kathleen Potts, a Thirty-One Consultant, has graciously agreed to donate 50% of all her proceeds to our adoption fund!! We are very excited to be offering these great products, from a great company to our friends and family.

If you are not familiar wih Thirty-One products, they make a adorable, and practical line of thermal totes, bags, and purses, all which you can personalize however you like. And this month, when you spend $31, you can get any personalization for only $5!!! Both Tabetha and I have their thermal lunch bags and they are way cute and keep things cold! These are great items for Back-to-School time as well as any other outing.

Click on the link below and check out all of the great products that Thirty-One has to offer!!

Thank you for your support as we waiting to bring our next miracle home. With sweet blessings!

Dawn



http://www.mythirtyone.com/shop/eventhome.aspx?eventId=E2027042&custId=15497585&from=INVITATION&verify=true

And here we go!!

Yesterday we got the email we've been looking forward to for months! Our Chinese exchange student, Mirabelle, will be here Thursday, July 26th!! We're are very excited to meet her and she is excited to get to the US!

Off the coat tails of our staycation last week, this week is all about getting the house put back together. The completion of our floors (They look great!) has been delayed by a few days, but everything should be complete by the end of today. Then it's all about getting cleaned up and moving things back. Not only is Tabetha getting her new big girl room, but I'm putting our teenagers' room together as well! It's almost like I'm nesting all over again, LOL!!

Because next week will be so crazy, I'm doing what I can now to get our online silent auction up and running within the next few weeks. But, we are still very much in need of more items to put on the auction. Please let me know if you would be willing to donate any new items or services so we can get a little closer to our fundraising goal of $13,000 (Yep, adoption is way expensive!) We know that God owns the cattle on a thousand hills, so this amount is nothing to him!!!

Also, don't forget to check out all of the fundraisers that we have (or will have soon) going on. Because we know that not everyone is interested in some of the products, we are doing a little something for everyone. Here's the run down of current or "coming soon" fundraisers...

1.Just Love Coffee Roasters-Current-see the link on the right side of this page.
2.Online Silent Auction- Coming in the next few weeks, right here on our website!
3.Thirty-one consultant Kathleen Potts, Back-to School fundraising party-First  few weeks in August, link posted on FB and right here!
4.Loose Change Fundraiser-North Port area. Contact me for details.
5.For This Child I prayed necklace via Kelli Wild at Adoption Delights.com- TBD.



I also included some pics from the last few crazy weeks in the Shreeve family! More to come soon!!

With Abundant Blessings,

Dawn
Eph 3:20

The new floors in our bedrooms! LOVE!!!!!!

Tabetha running through the town fountains in Celebration, FL

Nothing like a staycation!

This week we are vacationing in Orlando. For most people that means Disney, but as always, we strive to be different. In efforts to escape all of the craziness in our house, we decided to drive the long 2 hours to see what else Orlando has to offer.

Most of the week we have simply hung out at the time share, letting Tabetha discover her "inner fish" but yesterday we explored the Orlando Science Center. Last week we bought a family membership(Florida educator price of $40, ((score)) ) to Gwiz in Sarasota which comes with the ability to get into many other places as well. Not only did we go to Gwiz last week but we also visited the MOTE Aquarium. (We are planning on going again in September when the girls are with us because then it's FREE!)  So we've hit two science centers and one aquarium within the last week and we are planning on stopping at MOSI in Tampa on the way home!

With all this,  Tabetha seems to be having a great time exploring all of the new things and I can almost hear Michael praying under his breath that God will give Tab a love of science, LOL!! That WOULD be cool, I gotta say.

Blessings,

Dawn

Tabetha in her happy place at the pool.

Tabetha at the MOTE Aquarium in Sarasota.