Targeting teens and beyond..

(-1) Sunglasses $6 each or 2 for $10

I enjoyed reading all the comments and guesses left on here in the last 24 hrs. (I am with Sarah on this..I love guessing games, any games really!) By the looks of it, my pictures may not have been hard enough..here they are in 6 fun colors.

Sunglass winners are:

Groovy Mama

Jody

Email and let me know your color choice and address. Thanks for playing along!!

We are excited about trying something really different. Tim came up with a trendy logo, (-1). (Kind of like the artist formally known as Prince..isn't his name a number now?? :) I have noticed the popularity in these colored sunglasses grow. So, we jumped on the fashion bandwagon, added a small (-1) as a reminder that your purchase is helping there be one less orphan in the world and started selling!! We started in our neighborhood:

Then, we moved on to our neighborhood pool:

The perfect in-fashion, adoption supporting purchase for the young and

the young at heart! :)

Name It and Win It, maybe.

Thank you to everyone who ordered a travel mug from us last week. They were a huge success. Orange was the most popular color! In fact, we are out of orange at this time but we will be reordering. You can still order an orange travel cup, but it may be about 2 weeks until they are in. We still have several of the other colors left and ready to mail out.

The 5 lucky winners to get a FREE t-shirt are:

1. Laura M.

2. Jesse S.

3. Regan B.

4. Darci C.

5. Angela B.

Email me, takva73@gmail.com, your size choice and I'll let you know the design and color available and I can ship it out with your travel cup!

On to our next FUNdraiser:

ANY GUESSES AS TO WHAT OUR NEW ITEM IS??

It's sporting our new "minus 1" logo......(-1). Like it?

You have one guess as to what it is, all correct guesses will go in a hat, 2 names will be drawn tomorrow afternoon to win one.

(We are putting the FUN into fundraising this week!)

ORANGE out.

Apparently ORANGE is the new black, at least in travel cup colors. It has sold out!! We are hoping to order more cups but it may be about 2 weeks until they are in. You can still order ORANGE but just be aware of the delay. All other colors are ready to ship out tomorrow once the winners have been announced!

FREE t-shirt reminder

WE ARE HOME.

What fun to see all the orders for our new travel cups in my inbox. (Ok, so I may have checked a few times while at the beach..:) Just a reminder, order one of our new travel cups this weekend and for each purchase, we will enter your name to win a shirt of your choice (either design, size/color from our in-home stock).

Five winners to be drawn and posted Monday morning.

ORDER YOURS TODAY....

BEFORE THEY'RE

GONE!!!

Wordless Wednesday (from the beach)

Look what washed in..

We are at the beach. For the first time, we left the house very early (before the sun) and traveled traffic-free and arrived in record time. This is a week that I look forward to every year! This is especially fun this year: we are staying in the same house we stayed in when we first came home with Lindsey. As soon as we walked in, I remembered my two babies crawling around on the floor!

After getting four cars unloaded we headed down to the beach. It was so fun watching all the cousins (16 total) splashing and digging. After a while, we noticed a crowd gathering near the shore. We couldn't imagine what washed in...and I couldn't wait to share it with you.

16 oz., double insulated, BPA free. Order yours today.

$15, includes shipping

Summertime, Summertime, Sum, Sum, Summertime!!

Welcome us home by filling our "inbox" with cup orders and we will enter your name once for each purchase. Sunday, we will draw 5 names and give away 5 FREE shirts (your choice "What is good?" or "got love?" from our home stock of colors/sizes).

Have a great week...I hope to spend Monday at the post office mailing out cups to bring our child home!

July 2, 2007

Our forever family, adoption, and/or gotcha day began with a hurried run to catch our flight from Beijing to Chongqing, China. Our group had some trouble getting checked out of our hotel that morning and our bus got stuck in traffic. We laughed as we ran through the airport like we were on "Amazing Race".

This is as we reached the gate and realized we hadn't missed our flight. Note the Beijing Olympic hat...one of our first purchases!

After a short flight we did the last bit of paperwork necessary to get to meet our daughter.

We traveled with an amazing group of parents. Honestly..we couldn't have asked for a more fun, supportive group. We waited about 15 minutes in a hot, stuffy Civil Affairs Office for our daughters to be escorted in by their Chinese nannies. They had just come from a 6+ hour ride on an unairconditioned bus. And yet, in true Chinese fashion, the babies were all in sweatsuits and socks. :)

And then our girl, our sweet Chinese daughter, that we had prayed for and loved for so long was handed to us and our eyes were opened and our hearts changed...

We are thankful that we walked the road to our daughter and are amazed at the way she has changed our world. This child, I could love no more. You, Lindsey, are a light and joy.