Hi to all of our friends and family, I know if has been a while since I updated our page, but it has been a whirl wind with the holidays. As 2009 comes to an end we have officially been waiting for a birthmother for 6 months now, which to me is hard to believe because it really does not seem like it has already been that long. As of our last agency update there were only a few birthmothers in the program at this time, but we have not heard anything as of yet if any of the mothers are looking at our profile, we hope to get an agency update shortly after the new year. In the mean time we are keeping ourselves busy getting the nursery together, we just had it carpeted and plan on purchasing the furniture sometime in January.
Fund-raising this year has been amazing, we still have a little ways to go, but we know we can do it. Joe does plan on doing a football square fundraiser for the superbowl, so please look out for information on this to shortly. We are still collecting returnables, just let us know if you have any you would like to donate and we will more then happy to come by to pick them up.
Not to much to update everyone on, but we are hoping and praying that 2010 is the year we become parents, and we ask that our family and friends pray for us also.
We want to thank everyone for there help, support, and most of all donations, we know it was a hard year from everyone, and it means the world to us to know and see all the help and support we are getting. Happy New Year to all of you!!
Love Joe, Traci and Sargent
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Just an Update!
Hi everyone,
Sorry its been a while since I did an update. We just received our latest email on Thursday this week and there are currently 4 birth mothers in the program that meet our profile wishes, all 4 mothers are due in between Jan. and Feb. next year, but they are still in the counseling phase and have not been presented with any lifebooks yet, but we will be notified when they are. There are on 19 adopting parents that our waiting in the program with us, so our chances of getting a referral sooner then later are pretty good, please just keep your fingers crossed and say lots of prayers!!
Currently I am in the process of making all the Caramel pretzels that everyone pre-ordered for Halloween, so look for those to be delveried within the next 2 weeks. I have already had the request to make them for Christmas this year, and I plan on doing that, we need all the help we can get to get the baby Marleau account to increase.
Again as always I want to let you all know how much Joe and I appreciated all the support, and help with dreams to becoming parents, it means soooooo much to us!!!
Sorry its been a while since I did an update. We just received our latest email on Thursday this week and there are currently 4 birth mothers in the program that meet our profile wishes, all 4 mothers are due in between Jan. and Feb. next year, but they are still in the counseling phase and have not been presented with any lifebooks yet, but we will be notified when they are. There are on 19 adopting parents that our waiting in the program with us, so our chances of getting a referral sooner then later are pretty good, please just keep your fingers crossed and say lots of prayers!!
Currently I am in the process of making all the Caramel pretzels that everyone pre-ordered for Halloween, so look for those to be delveried within the next 2 weeks. I have already had the request to make them for Christmas this year, and I plan on doing that, we need all the help we can get to get the baby Marleau account to increase.
Again as always I want to let you all know how much Joe and I appreciated all the support, and help with dreams to becoming parents, it means soooooo much to us!!!
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Scraping Fundraiser!
Today was our scrapbooking fundraiser that my mother organized, and it was a huge success, we raised about $1,050. Thank you to, Amanda, Janice, Lauren, Melissa K., Deb, Melissa B. Barb, Felisha, Beth, Louis, Bobbie, Jill, Carrie, Melissa G., Chrissy, Amy, Holly, Kristina, Michelle H., and MOM for coming out today and showing your support. Thank you to Dad and Joe for helping us clean up the church to.
With today's fundraiser our adoption fund is about 1/2 way there. We plan on doing the Chocolate Caramel pretzels next month, I will be taking orders most likely starting next week.
Again thank you to EVERYONE for your help and support!!
Love Ya,
Joe and Traci
With today's fundraiser our adoption fund is about 1/2 way there. We plan on doing the Chocolate Caramel pretzels next month, I will be taking orders most likely starting next week.
Again thank you to EVERYONE for your help and support!!
Love Ya,
Joe and Traci
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Ohio Garage Sale!! Sept. 17, 2009
Here are some pictures from the Ohio garage sale that Grandma Cindy, and Grandpa Mitch organized to help raise funds for Baby
Marleau. We 
raised $450 dollars, which was a lot more then we thought we would, we could not believe how much we sold yesterday. Thank you again Grandma and Grandpa for organizing this fundraiser, I know how much work it took and we really appreciated all you both did! And Thank you Mitch, your signs were awesome! Also Grandma Cindy, I know the picture of you is from our first garage sale in 2008, but I didn't get one of you yesterday, and I wanted to make sure you made it on our page!.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Scraping Fundraiser!
Hi to all our scraping Family and Friends,
I just wanted to remind all that the due date for regisration and money for the Scrapbooking fundraiser my mom is organizing for Joe and I is due this week on Sept 5 in order to guarantee your spot. Please contact myself or my mother if you have any questions, but I hope to see you all there, it is going to be a really fun day.
I just wanted to remind all that the due date for regisration and money for the Scrapbooking fundraiser my mom is organizing for Joe and I is due this week on Sept 5 in order to guarantee your spot. Please contact myself or my mother if you have any questions, but I hope to see you all there, it is going to be a really fun day.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Our Bi-Weekly email Update!
Hello to all our friends and family,
Today we received our email update from Isabel. Not much to report, but currently there are 9 birth mother's with our agency and all of them have been matched with a family. Joe and I are kind of relieved with this as one of the birth mothers was due in less then 4 weeks and she was looking at our profile. Joe and I just didn't think we could be ready in 4 weeks, although we kept telling our selves if she did chose us it was because god felt that this little bundle would of been meant for us and he would of provided us what we would of needed to be prepared. We are just looking at everyday as another day to build up our adoption account and be better prepared to give our child a better life.
We are currently working on the nursery though, we were going to wait until we had our referral, but all the reading I have done said to start before, that it will help keep us busy, and we will feel more prepared, especially if we were to get a spontaneous referral. So as of last weekend my dad [papa] came over and dry-walled off the pocket door, so we are working on mudding and sanding that, and hopefully be able to start painting this weekend.
I would also like to thank all of you for your compliments and input with this web page, we have had a few ask how to leave comments for us..... at the end of each blog there is the word comment in green and all you have to do is click it and it will allow you to write a comment to us.
Hope everyone is well....
Love Joe, Traci and Sargent
Today we received our email update from Isabel. Not much to report, but currently there are 9 birth mother's with our agency and all of them have been matched with a family. Joe and I are kind of relieved with this as one of the birth mothers was due in less then 4 weeks and she was looking at our profile. Joe and I just didn't think we could be ready in 4 weeks, although we kept telling our selves if she did chose us it was because god felt that this little bundle would of been meant for us and he would of provided us what we would of needed to be prepared. We are just looking at everyday as another day to build up our adoption account and be better prepared to give our child a better life.
We are currently working on the nursery though, we were going to wait until we had our referral, but all the reading I have done said to start before, that it will help keep us busy, and we will feel more prepared, especially if we were to get a spontaneous referral. So as of last weekend my dad [papa] came over and dry-walled off the pocket door, so we are working on mudding and sanding that, and hopefully be able to start painting this weekend.
I would also like to thank all of you for your compliments and input with this web page, we have had a few ask how to leave comments for us..... at the end of each blog there is the word comment in green and all you have to do is click it and it will allow you to write a comment to us.
Hope everyone is well....
Love Joe, Traci and Sargent
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Welcome to our Journey!
Hi to all of our friends and family!!
Joe and I wanted to start a web page to help journal our adoption journey, and thought it would be a lot of fun to share it with all of you, and with having family and friends in multiple states we figured this would be an easy way for everyone to keep up to date on our journey. I have to admit though, I have never been any good at keeping up journals, so if you visit the site and there has not been an update in a while please bug me to update. So here we go with our first blog......
Joe and I have chosen to do a domestic adoption, and have chosen to use an agency located in both Nevada and Utah. The reason for choosing an out of state agency was based on two reasons, the first is Utah and Nevada's adoption laws are more in favor of the adopting parents, and agency fees are on a sliding scale, which means they base our fees on our income. Joe and I breezed through the application and home studies, we both were shock at how fast we completed this because we were told to expect it to take several months, well it really only took a little over a month, but it was a stressful month. Joe and I have been officially waiting for our referral since the end of June, and when I say we are waiting for a referral we are waiting for a birthmother to select us to be her newborn baby's adoptive parents, and she does this by looking through what is called a lifebook, which is a scrapbook that Joe and I have made of our life, which includes pictures of us, our family, Sargent, and all our friends, and a Dear Birthmother letter [a personal letter written to the birthmother telling her about us]. Isabelle [our social working] stated that it can take an average 5 to 18 months to receive a referral. We recieve bi-weekly emails from Isabelle informing us of all the birthmothers that are currently with our agency and which ones have our lifebook, which I absolutely love because it gives us something to look forward to and helps break up the what could be a very long wait. So while Joe and I are waiting for our referral we are keeping ourselves busy by slowly starting to work on the nursery and have been doing a lot of discussing on what changes we are going to need to make once we bring home baby Marleau.
Along with working on the nursery we are planning our next fundraiser, which is being hosted by my mother Lisa. This fundraiser is a scrapbooking fundraiser and will be held on Sept. 26th. Please email me or my mom for the information if you are interested. There is also a ton of you that have asked us to do the caramel pretzels again, so we are tentatively talking about doing this for Halloween, I will keep everyone updated and let you know when I will need pre-orders by. We want to again thank everyone for coming out to our bowling fundraiser a few weeks ago, it was such a huge success and we all had a lot of fun, also thank you to everyone for all your garage sale donations, and to those who donated there time to help, we do still have a long way to go, but Joe and I feel blessed to have all of our family and friends to help us.
Till our next update..............
Love,
Joe, Traci and Sargie
Joe and I wanted to start a web page to help journal our adoption journey, and thought it would be a lot of fun to share it with all of you, and with having family and friends in multiple states we figured this would be an easy way for everyone to keep up to date on our journey. I have to admit though, I have never been any good at keeping up journals, so if you visit the site and there has not been an update in a while please bug me to update. So here we go with our first blog......
Joe and I have chosen to do a domestic adoption, and have chosen to use an agency located in both Nevada and Utah. The reason for choosing an out of state agency was based on two reasons, the first is Utah and Nevada's adoption laws are more in favor of the adopting parents, and agency fees are on a sliding scale, which means they base our fees on our income. Joe and I breezed through the application and home studies, we both were shock at how fast we completed this because we were told to expect it to take several months, well it really only took a little over a month, but it was a stressful month. Joe and I have been officially waiting for our referral since the end of June, and when I say we are waiting for a referral we are waiting for a birthmother to select us to be her newborn baby's adoptive parents, and she does this by looking through what is called a lifebook, which is a scrapbook that Joe and I have made of our life, which includes pictures of us, our family, Sargent, and all our friends, and a Dear Birthmother letter [a personal letter written to the birthmother telling her about us]. Isabelle [our social working] stated that it can take an average 5 to 18 months to receive a referral. We recieve bi-weekly emails from Isabelle informing us of all the birthmothers that are currently with our agency and which ones have our lifebook, which I absolutely love because it gives us something to look forward to and helps break up the what could be a very long wait. So while Joe and I are waiting for our referral we are keeping ourselves busy by slowly starting to work on the nursery and have been doing a lot of discussing on what changes we are going to need to make once we bring home baby Marleau.
Along with working on the nursery we are planning our next fundraiser, which is being hosted by my mother Lisa. This fundraiser is a scrapbooking fundraiser and will be held on Sept. 26th. Please email me or my mom for the information if you are interested. There is also a ton of you that have asked us to do the caramel pretzels again, so we are tentatively talking about doing this for Halloween, I will keep everyone updated and let you know when I will need pre-orders by. We want to again thank everyone for coming out to our bowling fundraiser a few weeks ago, it was such a huge success and we all had a lot of fun, also thank you to everyone for all your garage sale donations, and to those who donated there time to help, we do still have a long way to go, but Joe and I feel blessed to have all of our family and friends to help us.
Till our next update..............
Love,
Joe, Traci and Sargie
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