Thursday, July 18, 2013

TEN for $10



10 FOR $10.00 For OUR Boys! We Are Reaching Out To All Our Friends In Hopes that 10 Of Our Friends will Donate $10.00 To Help Bring The Boys Home. That Donation is a Tax-Deductible Donation Made To our Reece's Rainbow Family Sponsorship Page AT: 2http://reecesrainbow.org/48525/sponsornine-2
THEN We Would Ask That You Pass On Our Story & Need For the 10 For $10.00 To Ten Or More Of Your Friends To Keep It Rolling In Hopes 10 Of your Friends and 10 of each of their friends Could Help Us Bring The Boys Home.We still need $8,427.68 to be fully funded. It sure will add up if we get a bunch of friends of friends donating $10. Thank You!
 

Saturday, July 13, 2013

From Daddy

By Mike Nine
I just wanted to let everyone know that we still need about $$8,784.13 until we are fully funded to bring our boys home... We have saved and raised $6,800 from donations, garage sales, fundraisers and money that we have set aside each week. So we need your help to raise the last $$8,784.13. Anything you can give helps whether it is $5 or $1,000 every little bit helps. And just think you are helping to bring these 2 little boys who have never know what it is like to be loved my a dad, mom, brothers, sisters, grandparents, aunts/uncles and cousins home to that unconditional love... 

I know some of you don't understand why we would travel to Bulgaria to adopt 2 boys with Down Syndrome and severely delayed.. I don't completely understand it either but I do know God spoke to Katrina and I to step out in faith and take these two boys that were given up by their parents because they were different. But God doesn't see them any differently than he sees us and he loves them just like he loves you and I.

They are my boys no matter what their physical issues are and I love them with all of my heart just like my other 8 kids.... They are going to be a blessing in our lives and God is going to use them to touch people just like he has used Vahnya and Livy..

Who would have thought that when Katrina and I got married 22 years that God had this wonderful plan in place for our lives.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Update on our expenses and what we still need

Update on our expenses and what we still need
Expenses Paid up to now
$425 homestudy update
$25 RR application fee
$3500 agency AAC application fee
$40 FBI finger prints taken
$36 FBI background check
$40 to apostille documents
$31 in all for shipping for documents, checks, ect.
$55 online 2 hour class for special needs.
$20 Amanda fingerprints
$40 medicals copay for Mike and I
$16 FBI letters to be  apostilled
$18 shipping for FBI letters
$975 USCIS
$90 apostille of dossier documents
$15 Josh fingerprints
$30 apostille fees for medical letters and I-800A
$10 apostille fee for a document we had to redo
$40 shipping documents for dossier
$2400 flights for mike and I
$1000 hotel and food in country
$460 boys visas
$720 USCIS I800 for 2nd child
$360 USCIS I800A to add a child in the home $360
$40 finger prints
$67 police background check
$40  copay for medical exam
$60 apostille fees for last stage documents
$500 Hague certificate
$5000  program fee to agency AAC
 Total already paid $16,056.00

We will need $4,500 for our third agency payment
  another $5,720 for our 2nd trip.flights hotel food
so we need $10,220
as of now we have $7,328.67  in our FSP (Family Sponsorship Page) $$5,756.95 was already given   to us for the first trip from our FSP so we have $1,571.72 left
 and we have  $342 saved from donations, sales, fundraisers and money we have set aside each week.  We have $1,913.72 total for our adoption
leaving $8,306.28 to be fully funded.

If there is anyone out there that needs to make a tax deductible donation for this years taxes you can do that by donating to our adoption. You will get a tax receipt from Reece's Rainbow  to claim it, please think about donating to our adoption and help us bring our baby boys home, Here is where you can donate

Sunday, July 7, 2013

TWO

wow so much to update sorry, I will have to come back and post about our trip and visits with the boys when I have more time. But wanted to say we are adopting two boys Sebastian and Jaxon here are some pictures of them.We hope to go back for them in September.


Saturday, April 20, 2013

we are here

We are here,it is so pretty.it was a long flight we are tired but got some good sleep last night and are going to be picked up to go to sebastians city at 11:00 so excited.

we went to the mall to exchange money.I have never seen such a huge mall and it had in it a store that was like a walmart it even had some of the same things in it like the shoes I just got from our walmart back home not sure the name of this place but it everything if I had known that I would have just waited till we got here to buy our shampoos and stuff. we got some crackers and some water.
  Our driver is Fullip he is a young guy only 20 reminds me of Josh. He is a sweet kid and think we are going to get along great with him,he will go with us to each visit and translate for us he even stays in the same hotel with us so if we need him he is always there.
Can't wait to see our little guy,not sure if we get to see him today or not.
here are a few pictures it is so pretty here.










Saturday, March 30, 2013

Happy Birthday Sebastian

Happy Birthday to our sweet little boy who is 3 years old today.We love you so much and we are so sad you have to spend this birthday without us but next year we will have a huge party for you.I don't know if they did anything for your birthday today or if it was just another day but we were all thinking about you we love you sweet boy. Happy Birthday !