"Five Million Minus Two" T-shirts Now Available

"Ethiopia: Five Million Minus Two"
This phrase means that the Britton family & our family are each adopting a child from Ethiopia.

The shirts brand are called Next Level. They are very similar to Alternative Apparel.

They are thin, a little longer, a little stretchy, & very soft. In other words, they are a quality shirt.

Thanks to Barrett Hillenburg for the cool design work.

We are selling them for $19 each. We also have kids sizes.
The profit from these will go toward the adoption for both families (The Brittons & ours).

Let me know if you would like one.
417-224-4531 (cell)
sblaine@atlassecurity.net

We are also going to have them for sale at our Indoor Garage Sale @ High Street Baptist Church on Feb 26th from 7am-3pm.

Dossier is Officially Sent! ........Sweet!

We have spent the last few months doing paperwork, jumping through hoops, paying fees, getting things notarized & state certified. All of this was to complete our Dossier, which was a checklist of about 20 items that had to be perfectly organized.


I met up with Shannon Britton at FedEx & we both sent off our individual dossiers together. We are in hopes (by doing this) that we will be able to have our paperwork go right along side each other through the process.

Hopefully, this will allow us to get a referral for a child close to the same time. Which means that we could potentially travel together.

We are so excited. Now we wait. I think that this will be one of the hardest parts of the process. It is out of our hands. We have put our faith in God that he will bless these adoptions & make this a smooth process for all of us.

USCIS Fingerprinting in STL

We went up to St. Louis with Jeff & Shannon on Jan 24th to get our fingerprints for the Department of Homeland Security. We drove 3.5 hours up, did the fingerprinting deal (which took all of 5 minutes), hung out in the Lou for a few hours, then drove back. This was a vital & important part of our process.

We had a great time with Jeff & Shannon. This trip gave us some time to talk about our adoptions together. We are so blessed to have them in our lives & on this same journey. Now, we just had to wait to get our approval back for this, so we could send the rest of our dossier off to Holt. Our approval came back in a record 3 days. Jeff & Shannon weren't quite as lucky, as theirs took close to 4 weeks to get back.