#FindingOurCrayons

Hello to everyone!

Today isn't a post about what we are thinking, how we are feeling, but rather, an update on something we are doing to share our journey.

You have probably seen it on our Facebook group, and on our blog, but we have been using a new hashtag: #FindingOurCrayons.  We are working sharing our journey of our adoption to the world, and one of the best ways is by using a hashtag.

So if you search for us with this hashtag, or share our hashtag, you and anyone else will be able to see our journey!

Again, we love all of you, and are so thankful for all the support and encouragement that you share with us.

Mike & Cana
#FindingOurCrayons

Music Monday: What You Want by Tenth Avenue North

So for those who know me, music is a big part of my life.  So as we have started going through the process of adopting, I have actually created a play list for me to listen to when I'm up or down about the whole journey. 

Today is What You Want by Tenth Avenue North

Hope you enjoy!

Cana
#FindingOurCrayons

Happy Anniversary (And an Update)

Today is our wedding anniversary! And we have had a lot of changes in the last year. 

Besides the obvious (getting married), we have bought a house in a different town, moving a lovely 20 minutes away from Anderson, SC.  Cana changed jobs, leaving one that she had been at for almost a decade.  And we started saving up money for our adoption.  

At this point in the process of just saving for the adoption, we have been saving and gathering funds now since Mid-June.  We are at a whopping 28% towards our goal in just 3 months!  Part of that was using from former job paying out my  PTO, but some of that was from our loving friends and family!  As you know, we have already started with some basic fundraisers (t-shirt sales and and gathering items for the yard sale) and Mike trying to shave his head if we raise $1,000 before September 30th, but stay on the look out for the other fundraising events we will be starting after the new year.  

We want to thank all of you that are helping us, both financially and with the love and encouragement that y'all share with us. 

Mike & Cana
#FindingOurCrayons

Music Monday: Still My Soul Be Still by Keith & Kristyn Getty

So for those who know me, music is a big part of my life.  So as we have started going through the process of adopting, I have actually created a play list for me to listen to when I'm up or down about the whole journey. 

Today is Still My Soul Be Still by Keith & Kristyn Getty

Hope you enjoy!

Cana
#FindingOurCrayons

Music Monday: Dear Younger Me by MercyMe

So for those who know me, music is a big part of my life.  So as we have started going through the process of adopting, I have actually created a play list for me to listen to when I'm up or down about the whole journey. 

 

Today is Dear Younger Me by MercyMe
 

Hope you enjoy!

Cana

Painting In Faith

As people of faith, we are called to walk by faith, not by sight.  And as the semi-pessimist, semi realist, and rarely optimist person I am, I sometimes find the idea of walking by faith to be hard. 

And it is even harder when the one thing you want seems so very far away. 

At this point, I have been called out about that. A LOT.  So I'm taking some steps of faith without any promises towards the goal.  Those who have been following me on Facebook know that I'm re-doing the room that will be Baby Brown's bedroom, and for those who didn't know, here is the glorious journey of just painting ONE wall.  

The room started out with this horrendous pinkish-reddish monstrosity of a carpet and pinky-beige walls.  Nice, neutral, pinkish colors and I really hated it.

This beige room with the reddish-pink carpet... Bleh!

Also, the carpet was old, smelly, and stained, so Mike agreed with me to get rid of the carpet.... Actually, he said, "Whatever you want, baby." So I came home from work one day and started removing it.... :-)

Primed the floor, removed the baseboard.  What lovely whiteness

After several weekends of removing carpet, padding, staples, tacking, and everything else, Mike removed all the baseboards. And then I primed the floor white. *And the floor will be covered and not just stay white... I mean, there will be children in this room eventually, I know better than to leave it white ;-)!*

When deciding on what color to paint the actual walls, I went through a number of paint chips.  But then I saw this variegated color set.  And I automatically thought mountains.  I mean, it would be beautiful!  So grab a total of 30 sample jars of the paint colors I wanted, and started painting.

Four weeks later, the end result is just magical:

Finished product!

 Mike has dubbed the wall as the Teal Ridge Mountains.  And I must admit, that I absolutely LOVE it.  The next goal is to finish painting the room in the palest color, Valspar's Sprinkles.

Once the room is finished being painted, then I'll finish the floor, and continue to work at getting little things for the room.  Like curtains, curtain rods, little knickknacks and such.

So keep an eye out, I'll be posting more about Baby Brown's bedroom more in the near future as I continue to work in faith.


Cana

Music Monday: Diamonds by Hawk Nelson

So for those who know me, music is a big part of my life.  So as we have started going through the process of adopting, I have actually created a play list for me to listen to when I'm up or down about the whole journey. 

 

Today is Diamonds by Hawk Nelson
 

Hope you enjoy!

Cana