Tales from Teunis Ranch: Teunis Adoption T-Shirt Fundraiser starts TODAY!!!!

Friday, November 19, 2010

Teunis Adoption T-Shirt Fundraiser starts TODAY!!!!

We are so excited to announce that our family has been selected by Wild OliveTees to be a featured family for an adoption fundraiser. How this works is, between 11/19 and 12/20 you can purchase Adoption T-Shirts at Wild Olive Tees and enter the coupon code TEUNIS1119.

They keep track of our sales and at the end of the fundraiser, they send us a check towards adoption funds. YAY!!!!

I dont know if any of you are familiar with this company, but their shirts are
wonderful, beautiful quality and such sweet designs with coordinating sacriptures. Please check it out by clicking the button here on the blog just to the right. These shirts make great holiday gifts too. Please help us spread the word!!!!!

As far as updates on our adoption status and where we are at, our homestudy is now in the hands of the state of Illinois and I am hopeful that the next few weeks will provide a little bit of movement. In the
meantime, we have this fundraiser and the holidays to focus on. I look forward to updating again very soon with SOME news of any kind. The next steps are so close and yet we cant take them just quite yet. Please pray for an extra measure of patience for me. I seem to get stuck between excitment and anxiousness and I am really trying to stay completely focused on God's timing in all of this.

All our love, Steve and Jennifer

1 comment:

SophieNovember 29, 2010 at 9:07 PM
Hi, I was on Wild Olive tees and saw your family, we are in Addison and are adopting for a 2nd time, good luck to you, looking forward to following your journey.

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