Thursday, February 23, 2012

This is all happening so fast..........




Of course we had to get a little something for our little JayHawk. Ben is thrilled that he is going to have a son to share his love of the Jayhawks with.

Our adoption is moving full speed ahead! Baby is due June 11th....not early May like we thought. Not sure how you can be a month off....but whatevs! He'll be worth the wait. We have put a down payment on our baby this week (it's not really called that, but I like to joke). Adoption is pretty damn expensive! We know that the Lord has called us to do this and he has chosen this little boy for us. HE will provide!

We are doing our part and fundraising, saving, cashing in our stocks, etc. We are now in crunch time!

You can help! We are giving you the opportunity to win a Kindle! Check out our raffle here!

http://www.perceptionfunding.org/Perceptionfunding/The_Garbers.html


We are so blessed with friends and family who are supporting us in this! Thank You all! We love you!

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Bringing Home Baby Garber

Here we go!

Help us bring our baby boy home! We are very excited that we are being blessed with such a wonderful gift! However....it's expensive! So we are getting creative. We have set up an amazon account....see post below for details!

We have also partnered with one of our friends and founder of Perception Funding. Our friend Jon has a calling on his life for fundraising and does an amazing job at it. He does it at no cost to the people he is helping! He has set up a website for us to help tell our story.

Check it out at: http://www.perceptionfunding.org/Perceptionfunding/The_Garbers.html

We are raffling off a Kindle Fire and tickets are only $2! Help us bring home our baby and have a chance to win a Kindle!

We are thankful for all of your support!

Sunday, February 12, 2012

We are scared, we are excited, we are blessed.



The Garber house is doing a little remodeling. We are expanding our home by 2 feet. Two little, adorable, long awaited feet....and hands, and eyes. We are having a baby. We are adding to our family. We will soon be a family of 4! Molly will not longer be our little baby...but she will be a close 2nd.

Ben and I have always wanted a family and have been on this journey for the last 3 years. We were told we would not be able to have children unless we used some form of infertility treatment. We talked, we prayed, we waited. The Lord's answer to us was not now, not this way. So we waited longer. We asked the Lord....is it time, he always answered, but not always the way we wanted.

We were ok with that because we wanted what the Lord wanted for us in his time. We heard from the Lord at the end of last year and knew it was time to move forward. We decided we would start working on our home study in January when we returned from Haiti.

That wasn't God's plan either....He put an urgency in us to get the home study done before we left for Haiti. We weren't sure why we felt that way, but we did. So we moved forward. We got our home study finished in record time. Our home study agency was amazing and worked hard to get it done quickly. It was almost finished when we left for Haiti. We returned, we got the final draft and our home study was officially finished.

We then hopped on the roller coaster of adoption. Getting calls telling us that birth mothers were looking at our profile, waiting to hear if they had chosen us and waiting to find out if we had a baby on the way.

Last Friday we got a call. A call tell us that a birth mom had chosen us! She wanted us to raise the baby that she was carrying. We are having a baby!

Then we panicked! How are we going to pay for this? Are we ready for this? YES! We said YES!

We are now trusting the Lord. Trusting him with our baby, our finances, and our lives. This is the hardest thing we've ever done. It's really hard! We have to wait and we have to figure out how to come up with a large amount of money to pay our adoption lawyer.

So here we are again....waiting, trusting, and praying. We would appreciate all the prayers you can offer. We know that the Lord doesn't put a plan into motion only to watch it fail. He WILL provide and we WILL bring our baby home.....in June!

Let the fundraising begin!


Here is a way to help. When you order anything on amazon use this link to do so.

http://www.amazon.com?_encoding=UTF8&tag=garberadoptio-20