ALMOST Friday!

Yes, that's right, its almost Friday and I am soooo ready for a nice LONG weekend!  Better yet, I'm ready for a weekend off, period!  ha  Yesterday, Richard and I were brainstorming some fun ideas for grandparent gifts.  A little something small to give our parents, especially his, to make them feel more apart of this experience.  The more we think on this, we're trying to show more compassion and try and see things through their eyes.  Its not always easy, but we're trying.  So, in an effort to help make them feel more like "grandparents-to-be", we made some little goodies for them!  :)

We will make some more soon, but for now, thats all we finished!  Some great resources if you

re adopting or are considering it.  These are some great new children's books we ordered to read to our baby one day. Its called, Shaoey & Dot.  

Its by Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife, Mary Beth.  Its such a great little children's book that we can read to 'baby Freeman' one day!  

We also got another book several months ago.  We found it in the book store randomly one day on an end cap.  Since we've been talking about adoption for a long time, we started writing prayers and little messages to our child in it.  At the time, we weren't moving forward with anything.  So now, we have sweet little reminders of how precious God's timing is in everything!

Thanks for reading!  Until then, Brantley

More Pictures for our Adoption Project!

Remember, we are selling these images and using 100% of the money for our adoption fund.  Please be honest and do not copy these images or take them from online.  We are simply posting previews for you to see.  If you're interested in purchasing one or a couple, please send us an email!  Thanks again for your support and kind words of encouragement!

We have them image below hanging on the walls in our house.  It was blown up to a 20x30 gallery wrap and looks amazing!  Remember, these are all low res files posted on this site.  The quality is stunning when printed!

Thanks again!

Adoption Project

This morning at church, we spoke with another couple who is going through their homestudy right now.  They are much farther along in their journey, and so they had quite a bit of advice to share.  They were talking candidly about their finances, and how they've been saving and even getting second jobs to raise more money for their adoption fund.  This is something that we've been praying about A LOT lately!  Also, after listening to one of the audios on the link I posted a few posts back, I learned some more tips!  So.... here it is.

The biggest problem that adoptive parents run into is being smart with their money and saving, while at the same time, not going into debt funding their adoption.  Basically, as adoptive parents, you can't use insurance to pay for the delivery, etc.  Instead, you're paying $15,000+ and up (for domestic adoption) straight out of pocket.  And I didn't mention the attorney's costs are an additional $3-4,000 onto that amount,  Not to mention, all of the expenses that come after the baby arrives.  So, you can see what types of expenses come into play.  The advice given... fundraising.  Well, I am pretty skeptical about asking for money, sending out support letters, etc.  However, the fact is, we could use any resources imaginable to help make this possible and bring our baby home!  So, I came up with another idea.  I am a photographer, so why not sell some of my work and put 100% towards our adoption fund?!  

I included [some] of the images that I am offering.  If you're interested in purchasing one these prints, please send us an email at brantley@alldressedupphotography.com.

8x10 Print $25      •     11x14 Print $35       •    16x24 Print   $55

Thank you ahead of time for helping us bring our baby home!  Remember, 100% of the total will go towards our adoption fund!