Who want's a cool T-shirt?

The Lord says.... "I will come to you, I will not leave you as orphans." John 14:18

Help us bring home our baby boy.

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Check out the T-shirts we are selling...be a part of something huge!

Let us know if you'd like to pre-order a T-shirt! They are awesome!

It's a Boy!

We received ultrasound pictures in the mail a couple of weeks ago from our attorney. It's so amazing to see our little boy! We have been working hard at writing grants, fundraising, and getting our home ready for the addition 2 feet that will be added to our house in June.

Here is a sneak peak of our nursery....it's mostly done, other than some finishing touches on the walls, etc. As you can see, Molly has been helping!

Please continue to share our story with others!

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

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!

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!

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

Is this thing on......??

I do a great job of keeping up with other people's blogs. Even those people I don't know. Why is it so hard to keep up with my own blog? Is it because we don't have much to write about? I assure that is not the case.
We have been very busy with life. We have been doing a lot of DIY around the house and I have found a new love in crafting. I will share some pictures!

Stay tuned....hopefully we'll be able to keep things updated on here. Until then.....ENJOY!

Going Green......means spending green!

I've been doing a lot of soul searching lately....what does that really mean? I recently turned 30 and it hit me like a ton of bricks! I've had a bit of a mid life crises....not the "go out and buy a porche and get hair plugs" type of mid life crises. It's been a good thing.

Change #1 (my porche)

I've always wanted to be someone who has a hobby....something I can enjoy doing by myself or with others. I've been reading a lot of home improvement blogs, crafting blogs, and DIY blogs. I've been able to start making my home my own. We've painted our cabinets, painted a whole room, and put up new window treatments. I've also started to craft a bit. I refinished a book shelf, made some wall art and made a pretty neat jewelry organizer.

I've never been a naturally crafty person and feel like maybe this is a gift form God. It's really what I've needed lately. Crafting has become my stress reliever in the midst of a crazy season of life. I would love to hear about any crafts you've done, I'm always looking for something new.

Change #2 (my hair plugs)

I recently met with a gal who is very passionate about all things natural. I met her at an event we did for work. She is a maternity concierge in the area and we hit it off with our common goal of wanting to provide the best for families. We started talking about natural birthing, and going green. She was very insightful. We scheduled a time to meet for coffee to talk about how we can partner to help each other grow our businesses.

Our time at coffee was great! She had a lot of knowledge of infertility and was very passionate about helping people figure out why they are not able to conceive. She is not a Dr. or any sort of medical professional but she really seemed to know her stuff. This came at a perfect time as I'd been thinking about going to a naturpath Dr. to try and get healthy the natural way. I've been feeling like my Dr. has just been trying to prescribe meds to cover up symptoms instead of really getting to the root of the problem.

The gal I met with suggested a website www.naturallyknockedup.com I want to get healthy, the natural way. This website had so many great resources. I've spent the weekend really researching and coming up with a plan. I talked with Ben about the things I researched and although he wasn't completely on board with everything he is very supportive.

I've tried to go through our house and get rid of all of the toxic items. Things that aren't natural, and things that have ingredients that I can't say. I've even made new soap, shampoo/body wash (for Ben...the products I already use are natural), toothpaste, cleaning supplies,laundry detergent, and deodorant.

Most of these things use a few of the same ingredients, so that is helpful. It was all really quite easy and seems to work great so far. Time will tell....I will keep you updated.

We are making baby steps and hopefully can continue to improve out diets and learn new ways to go green!

I will let you know how it goes! Hopefully we can keep with it and it'll prove to help in our fertility!