Team Price Update

I know a lot of you are probably wondering how things are going. I don't have much of an update to give anyone but we have been very busy the past few months!! I will update you to the best of my ability on where things stand with the adoption and funds needed to for us to be fully funded! 

Team Price Shirts are still available and all the funds goes towards our adoption fund
3 Less Orphans = 3 More Prices
Derline ~ Juvens ~ Sophia
Loved ~ Chosen ~ Wanted
Shirts are $12 Each and are available in youth - adult sizes 

As many of you may know we were blessed by family and friends with an adoption benefit family fun night! What an amazing event this was! It was held on September 7th at the Wolcott School. We had a pulled pork meal, lots of yummy desserts, bounce house and face painting for the kids and a cruise in car show. We had some awesome things donated to our silent auction and we sold Haitian Coffee, Haitian Jewelry and Christmas Items along with some handmade scarves and bags! All and all the night was a huge success and we were very blessed by the event! To be able to talk about adoption with people from our community was a wonderful thing! We currently find ourselves being very close to fully funded!! What an amazing feeling that is! We have about $8,000 left to go of the $55,000 that was needed to fully fund the adoption! 

Woo Hoo!! We want to say thank you to each and everyone of you who have supported us along this journey who have prayed for us and helped us make this all possible! We will continue to sale scarves and t-shirts and the Haitian jewlery and chirstmas items to help raise some of the needed funds. We will also be keeping the account open at the bank so if you would still like to donate towards our adoption fund you can do so by sending checks to the Bank Of Wolcott P.O. Box 339 Wolcott, IN 47995 Please makes checks payable to Price Family Adoption Fund

Where does our paperwork stand and how are things moving along with that you ask.... Well I wish I could tell you they are moving along quickly but I just can't right now. The last update we received was our file is still in IBESR. They are working on it but still not done with it. We have been very encouraged with the movement we are seeing in IBESR lately so we are hopeful that our file will be out of IBESR before the end of this year if not sooner!! 

We will be making a trip to Haiti in November to file our I600 and give our orphan all of our final process papers so they have them when they are ready for them. We are currently awaiting our appointment with USCIS and then we will be booking our flight!! On this trip we will get to spend several days with the kids! Its been over 8 months since we have seen them. WE are very excited to get to love on them for a few days. It is our hope that this will be our last trip to Haiti for a visit. We plan for our next trip to be bringing them home with us!! Oh what a wonderful day that will be! 

How can you pray?? We need your prayers for our file and that it would move out of IBESR by the end of this year if not sooner!!  WE need your prayers that the new law for adoptions would be signed by the president of Haiti and we could skip our file going to his desk. We need your prayers that we will be fully funded soon and have one less stress off our list when it comes to the adoption. And lastly pray for our children the 3 that are in Haiti pray that they would feel that they are loved and pray that they will yet again understand that mamma and papa are here to visit but they aren't coming home with us. Pray for Juvens especially as he has seen many of his friends going home and I know he has to be confused. Pray for our boys here at home that they would just be patient with this wait and know that someday there brother and sisters will be home. 

Thank you friends your love support and prayers mean the world to us! It takes a village!! We are sure happy to have you along with us on this ride! 

Handmade Infinity Scarves

Adoption Funds 

Handmade Infinity Scarves 

Click Here To View Current Selection Of Scarves 

Scarves are $15 Each 

Shipping is $3 Per Scarf 

Great for Gift Giving!! 

Turns any outfit from plain and boring

 to hip and sassy! 

Below you will see some examples please click on the link to view the album of all scarves 

on my facebook page

Price Family Adoption Fund T-Shirt Fundraiser

Price Family Adoption Fund 

T-Shirt Fundraiser

To buy please email me with your order at krp1021@gmail.com  

Team Price T-Shirts 
Available in all sizes 
$12.00
Gildan 50/50 Blend 
Derline ~ Juvens ~ Sophia 

Loved ~ Chosen ~ Wanted 
3 Less Orphans = 3 More Prices

By Grace T-Shirt inspired by Ephesians 2:8 ~ For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - 
Available in all sizes 
Shirt color is Chocolate 
$15.00 
Gildan 50/50 Blend

Love Wins T-Shirt inspired by 1 Corinthians 13:7 
~ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Available in all sizes 
Shirt Color is Orchid (light purple)
$15.00
Gildan 50/50 Blend

Life Is T-Shirt inspired by Life Is quote from Mother Teresa. 

Available in all sizes 

Shirt color is called Kiwi 

$18.00

Gildan 50/50 Blend

Comment Sold if you would like to Buy! 

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Life is a duty, complete it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Life is sorrow, overcome it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is a struggle, accept it.

Life is a tragedy, confront it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

Life is life, fight for it.”

― Mother Teresa

It's been a month!

Its been a month since we entered IBESR and got numbers for the kids!! Wow I never imagined it would feel that good to finally get in and have numbers for the kids! I mean its just a silly number right.... Wrong... This was the biggest step for us this far the highest mountain we have had to climb! It was like a giant weight had been lifted. Worry was gone I had done what I needed to do to get us to the point of getting in. We had trusted God and listened to his every instruction even if that did mean loosing thousands of dollars because someone said they could help and then they ended up not able to help and took our money.... I told a friend just the other day loosing that money was probably the best thing that could of happened because it lead us to the right person and we were finally able to get in! At the time losing the money I felt like a stupid idiot but I am finally now able to see the good in losing thousands of dollars! 

Any-who its been a month a month full of baseball and less scattered thoughts about our adoption its been  a month of crazy summer practice, game practice, game ,game! Both boys in baseball and Kaden finally got his cast off so now he is playing!! It looks like we have a good 3 more weeks of baseball for various tourneys! Its been a good month. We were blessed with tickets to the Indy 500 from one of our vendors so we took the boys to do that. Kaden and a friend were blessed with Notre Dame football camp being provided for them! We are very much enjoying this crazy summer at home!! 

Adoption news.... I don't have any we are waiting again... But its a good waiting a waiting where we know something is happening and our file isn't just sitting! Everyone keeps saying Christmas?? I keep saying who knows! Waiting for IBESR to go through our file and make sure we are fit parents and approve the file so it can go to the next step which is court after court there is several other steps including passport and visa.. How long will this all take I have no idea.. My best answer is how ever long GOD wants it to take!! Lets all pray it moves quickly and we don't have any major problems so we can get these kids home! Trusting in HIS timing knowing it is perfect and beautiful in every way!! 

Adoption Fundraiser News!!! We have been blessed by our family and friends taking on the task of planning an Adoption Benefit Dinner to be held on September 7th here in Wolcott at the Tri-County Intermediate School.  A Pulled Pork dinner and silent auction are being planned!! We are very excited to share our story with the community at this event! Silent Auction Items are needed and Help is needed to put on the event! We are in need of people to help the day of the event and help leading up to this big event! If you would be willing to help in anyway please contact me and I will get you to the right person!!! More benefit event news will be coming in the next few weeks!! 

Thanks everyone for your thoughts and prayers along this crazy hard long journey! We never thought it would take this long and be this hard! We are truly thankful for all of our family and friends! 

Adoption Benefit Garage Sale Take 1

We held our first garage sale of the summer in an attempt to raise some of the needed funds for the adoption! We had been saving and collecting stuff for over a year in our storage building! We held this event on the day our town has there town wide sale and we had great success!!! We are currently in need of raising the remaining money for the adoption so with that being said we need to raise around $27,000 more dollars!  We decided to open the sale on Friday night for a few hours and we were very busy I think we brought in around $500 on Friday night being open from 4-8 we were very surprised!! The next day we were open from 7-3 and we sold lots! We had people coming and going the whole time!! It was a blessing to see that many people coming and taking a look at our junk! Kaden and a friend sold hot dogs  popcorn, pop and water and that was also a hit!! At the end of the sale we raised just over $1,600 to put towards the adoption! We were very pleased!! We are very lucky to have a garage to keep the stuff in and set up and we are planning our next garage sale for Memorial Day weekend Friday and Saturday! We are in need of more donations of stuff so if you have anything you would like to donate to our next sale we would gladly take it!! It can be anything from kitchen items, decorative items, clothing, toys, accessories, books, crafts, larger items we will take pretty much anything! So if you have some stuff you would like to get rid of please keep us in mind! We will come and pick it up!! 

And the winner is.....

Thank You everyone for participating in our Coach Purse Giveaway!! The lucky winner is Jenci Wilson!! We will be shipping out this beautiful bag to you in Texas on Monday!!

Here is the video of my boys drawing the winner of the Coach Purse! Wesley got a little excited at the end and busted out some break dance moves!!



This fundraiser did not do as well as we had hoped and for a while I have been kind of down about the whole thing. But tonight when I looked at my blog post about the Coach purse giveaway and I seen that it had been viewed 302 times (I think thats alot) I relized that maybe just maybe this giveaway wasn't about raising funds for our adoption but it was about raising awarness of the worldwide orphan crisis. The numbers vary I have seen 132 million to up to 210 million orphans worldwide! What can you do to help this problem. Well first things first start praying. Pray for the orphan pray for the fatherless. Maybe just maybe with any luck god will show you what you can do to help with this worldwide problem!

Matthew 18:5 "And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me"


Blessings
The Prices

Haitian Artisan Bracelets

We have received 550 bracelets from The Apparent Project so far. We are selling these to raise funds for the adoption of our 3 kids from the country of Haiti!I think we have about 150 left! When those are gone we will be getting some more!! 

The Apparent Project is a Non-Profit 501 (c) 3 organization that is empowering the poor in Haiti. By teaching these Haitians the Artisan skill of paper bead making and recycling cardboard products such as cereal boxes, pop boxes and many more cardboard items. They are paving the way for a brighter future for there workers.

What is so special about these bracelets you may ask???

~They make great gifts… Mothers Day, Graduation, Birthdays, Teacher, Christmas, Brides Maids… 

~These bracelets are helping Haitian parents rise out of extreme poverty. Allowing them to find permanent housing, send their children to school and put food on the table.

~These bracelets are being used as a fundraising tool for many families who are raising funds to adopt Haitian Children.

~These bracelets are making the needs of Haiti APPARENT to those who purchase them to those who sale them.

~These bracelets are Inspiring adoration of our loving Father God with hope that one day HE will be Apparent to all.

We are selling each bracelet for $10 I will ship anywhere in the US for $11 per bracelet.

 A portion of the money goes back to the Haitian Artisan who made the bracelet you buy and a portion goes towards our adoption cost.

 The bracelets that I have left from my current bunch I have broken up into 4 color areas 

Yellows~ 

 

Brights ~

 

Reds & Oranges ~ 

Lights ~ 

Each bracelet comes with a tag on it telling about the Artisan who made the bracelet. The stories are heartbreaking. They tell about how they live in small 5x5 tents with 5 children they talk about how they want to make enough money to send there children to school or provide them with a daily meal. All things we take for granted. 

 

If you would like to purchase a bracelet please get a hold of me. I can be reached by email at krp1021@gmail.com you can call me at 219-208-0106 ( If I don't answer please leave a message that you are calling about bracelets.) you can also visit my facebook page  were I have some bracelets listed individually. 

~~ Can you help us sale some bracelets?? 

Post a link to my blog to your facebook wall for us or tweet about it. 

If you think you could sale some for us please let me know and I can get you some! The bracelets have been very easy to sale! 

Also if you know of an event where we can set up and sale bracelets please let me know. We want to sale these bracelets as long as we can so we can continue employing Haitians! Our dream is once we have our adoption funded we will continue raising money and help other families bring children home! 


Last but certainly not least! We need your Cereal Boxes!! If you save box tops for your school go ahead and cut them off fold the boxes down flat and start saving them! The more colorful the better but they are not picky and will take all cereal boxes!!The more cereal boxes we can get to Haiti the more Haitians Apparent Project can employ!! Ask your church to start saving, Ask your school to start saving, Ask your family and friends. 
If you are local boxes can be dropped off at my work. 
M&H Fleet Services, Inc 
9707 US Hwy 24 W 
Wolcott, IN 47994

If you have any questions please let me know. 

Thanks for looking : ) 

Blessings 

The Prices 

More Apparent Project Bracelets Have Arrived!!

We received our 2nd box of bracelets today!! So so very exciting!! Our first shipment was 100 and this shipment had 300 in it! It felt like Christmas morning going through all the different bracelets!! I will be posting them individually on facebook so be watching for that!! Visit my photo book of AP bracelets by clicking on the facebook link. 












The Apparent Project a non profit 501(c)3 empowering the poor of Haiti. The artisans guild uses discarded materials such as cereal and cracker boxes, oil drums, and trash paper to create beautiful “upcycled” pieces of jewelry, journals, and stylish home decor. While redeeming the Haitian landscape, these artisans are also bringing new hope to their families, employing themselves for a brighter future and earning the means to pay for their children's food, shelter, and education. That means less orphans, less crime, less garbage, less stress, and a whole lot more beauty. Visit the Apparent Project online. 


Bracelets are being sold for $10 or $11 if you wish to have it shipped to you!! The money from the bracelets then goes towards our adoption of our 3 beautiful kids from Haiti and it goes towards the Artisan who made the bracelet!! 


Here are some stories from the Artisans of the bracelets 

Janette the artisan of this bracelet has been living in a tent now for over a year and is hoping to use her earnings to get her family out of a tent and help her mother take care of her younger brothers and sisters

Mariette is the artisan who made this bracelet she is a new mom trying to make ends meet and take care of her darling son. She is working hard to be able to herself and her family and save for when her son is old enough for school. She is a joy to work with.

Eltha is the artisan of this bracelet she is a single mother of a little boy. She has not been able to care for her son so her mother has been his primary caretaker. She would like to use her earnings to rent a house and be reunited with her son.

Frenel is the artisan of this bracelet he is one of 9 children he is working his way out of poverty through his bean and jewelry making. He is proving to be quite and enterpreneur and hopes to someday start a taxi business with his earnings.

Jano is the artisan of this bracelet he is a new father of a baby girl. After the earthquake Jano was living in a tent but through hard work at apparent project as the security guard he was able to rent a house. He continues to show is determination to work hard through his jewelry making in the evenings and weekends.

Gedlene is the artisan of this bracelet she is a mother of 2 wonderful kids. She is living in a tent with her boyfriend and kids. She wod like to use her earnings to marry her boyfriend buy land build a house and take care of her kids.

Similien is the artisan of this bracelet she is currently living in a tent with her aging parents. She would like to use her earnings to take care of her parents and pay for herself to finish school.

Makilene is the artisan of this bracelet she is living in a 5x5 tent with her 5 children. She is trying to save for a house so that she won't have to relinquish two of her children to an orphanage. She is a joy to work with and one of our hardest workers.

Judith is the artisan who made this bracelet she is an aspiring young lady who is using her earnings to put herself through school and take care of her sister's family. She would lkke to someday be a teacher or doctor .

Richard is the artisan who made this bracelet he is one of the original paper bead makers. He has a tremendous work ethic and after having been a street kid hungry everyday for food he is happy to be working to take care of himself and his family

Coach Purse Giveaway!!

Check out this Awesome~Amazing~Lovely~Hip ~ Styling~Chic Coach Purse!!
This is the beautiful Alexandra Purse in black 
This bag retails at $358.00
AND

It could be yours!! 

YES You read that right it could be yours!!

This bag is sure to make any woman's life run smoothly it is large enough to hold all of life's essentials and then some! !

Wallet ~ Sun Glasses

Cell Phone ~ Ipad

Make-up bag ~ Lots Of Pens

Check Book ~ Lots and Lots of Receipts 

Nook ~ Nintendo DS 

Chapstick ~ Gum ~ Tick Tacks 

Coloring Crayons ~ Paper ~ 1/2 Eaten Candy.....

Well that pretty much sums up whats in 

my crazy cluttered up purse!! 

So really, it will hold what ever you toss into it. and we are Giving It AWAY!!!! 

That's Right 

With a small donation towards our adoption you can help us bring Javens Zachary , Zoie Derline & Sophia home from Haiti!! 


Adoption can be very expensive and we feel the lord has called us to do this. Zach and I did not have a lot of money saved up for this adoption. But we knew in our hearts that if this was something god truly was calling us to do he would provide a way.
James 1:27 tells us ~

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." 

 

For every $5.00 donation you will be entered to possibly win this 

 Coach Purse Giveaway

On Saturday April 28, 2012 at 8:00 pm (Est) We will draw at random and announce the winner!! Don't live close to me not a problem!! I will gladly cover the cost to ship you your new Coach Purse should you win the Giveaway!!

$20.00 Donation give you 5 Chances to win the giveaway! That's right you get an extra chance if you donate $20.00!! 

Get an  extra chance when you share this blogpost on Facebook , tweet about it or share this blog post on your blog!!

Make sure to let me know you have shared the post to get you your extra chances!! Leave me a comment below telling me you have shared the post and leave the link to your Facebook post, tweet or blog post!! 


***HOW TO DONATE***
Click on the Donate Button at the top right of this blog post. This will take you to my Paypal.. 
Enter the amount in $5 increments you want to donate and put the following for the description 


"Donation CPG" 


Checks can also be mailed to my home address 
Price Adoption Fund 
C/O Karena Price 
126 E Johnson St 
Wolcott, IN 47995


Please put in the memo line Coach Purse Giveaway


$5.00 Donation = 1 Chance 
$10.00 Donation = 2 Chances
$15.00 Donation = 3 Chances 
$20.00 Donation = 5 Chances 
$50.00 Donation = 15 Chances 
$100.00 Donation = 30 Chances 

Thank You everyone for your love and support!! Please help us spread the word and share this with everyone!! If you don't need a Coach purse maybe you could use it as a gift for Mother's Day!!