Sunday, September 29, 2013

We know Who is in control!

  Well it has been a long few days, we have been on our knees praying. God has been speaking to our hearts and although we feel broken and disheartened by the loss of Dane (Nehemiah) God's will and plan is our ultimate goal. We thought about just bringing Alaric (Nehemiah) home and taking it "easy" :) I think the devil was working on us in that moment. We thought about how we would not need to raise any more funding if we only got one child, we would not have to buy another vehicle and so many things that would be so simple. God doesn't call us to simple or easy but to serve. He says take up our cross and follow. We have peace that He has called us to TWO children. We may not know who exactly the second child will be but we remain committed to working our hearts out to bring two new children into the Breakfield family.
    We came to this conclusion throughout yesterday and last night. We knew that it would be another leap of faith because we were still short $9,500. We said yes to God and He is so gracious and loving to affirm us in our decision. This morning (Sunday) we received a very generous donation that brings us to needing only $7,500. God is so good! We have enough to make our first trip where we will meet the children for the first time and have court. This trip will hopefully take around 3 weeks. We will then come home (without the children) for about 10 days. When we return we will need the additional funds to pay for passports, medical exams, visas for the children to be allowed to enter the US, and our plane tickets to fly home ~$9,000 for two children.
   Thank you so much for praying, sending messages, and sharing our news. Please continue to pray, share and if you feel led you can donate through clicking on the button with Nehemiah's picture on the right side bar of this blog.

9 MORE DAYS!!!

Friday, September 27, 2013

Happy Day/ Sad Day

  Today has been a huge flood of emotions, we have been running around town trying to get last minute things done for our trip, then we got a call no one wants to get. Nancy informed us that Dane's (Nehemiah) paperwork is not done. To make a long story short he is not available for adoption at this point in time. There is a very slim chance that it will be squeaked by, which is what we are praying.. But we need to proceed, we are just not sure what that means. There is another little boy who is perfectly adorable and available right now but it is so hard to think with a broken heart. We also lost $4,200 when we lost Dane (he had a grant that was gifted to him before we committed to adopting him) Which puts us $9,600 short and we leave in 11 days. Lots to think about and pray about. Please lift us up as we make HUGE decisions in the next few days. God has a plan He is not surprised but we are knocked off our feet!:(

WE ARE LEAVING!!!!

AHHH We got our dates!! We have our appointment October 10th so we will be leaving around the 8th of October. Yes a little over a week!!! I can't stop shaking so excited and nervous and in shock!! God is sooo good!! Thank you all who have prayed for us in the journey we could not have done it without you!!  We leave in 11 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday, September 26, 2013

The Room is ready!

  We finished the boys room today, thank you ebay for the cute used bedding:) Soon to be big brother moved out of the nursery and in with big, big brother the two couldn't be happier. I am a little worried a 6 year old with tons of legos mixed with a naughty 22 month old spells disaster to me! We will have to make it work though, we thank God we have a four bedroom house and can put kids in rooms by two. Today marks our paperwork being submitted for 6 weeks! I consider us FULL TERM! We are ready to pop! Come on travel dates so we can meet our babies.
  Thank you to whoever bumped our Family Sponsorship Page up $100, we are chipping away at our mountain....only $5,400 left:)

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Moving right along!!

  Today was an exciting day and nothing really even happened for us!:) The families submitted ONE week before us got their appointment dates...and they are for NEXT week! Yes only one week away. If the current trend follows for special needs children we will be traveling in two weeks. That fact got my heart going. On one hand I am so ready to go see my boys and hold them, but it gets a little scary when we try to figure out how we are going to get there. As of today we are only $5,500 from being fully funded! Just typing that gives me goose bumps we are so very blessed to be at this point. But I am not about begging:) We are so close but we need to push through to the end and finish this fundraising thing for good! The giveway seems to be a bust right now not one ticket sold, we have sold a few things on ebay but are really out of ideas on how to raise anymore money on our own. If you feel led please consider helping us reach the finish line and go to Eastern Europe with the peace of mind that the bill is paid in full! Thank you!

Monday, September 23, 2013

Give away

Help the Breakfield's bring home two precious baby boys from Eastern Europe, born with Down Syndrome and abandoned at birth because of their diagnosis.
Give Away! Each donation is a opportunity to win one of three amazing prizes!

  1. A Mens Movado Watch (Victoria gave this watch to Joey on their wedding day, it has only been worn a handful of times for special occasions) valued at ~$600
  2. An American Girl Doll of your choice, valued at ~$110
  3. A Squier Acoustic Guitar with cloth case, valued at ~$130


Donation $10 each

only 600 Donation will be entered!

To purchase tickets call (540) 207-2230
or online at
please leave name and number of tickets purchased on receipt

Sharing this post will also enter your name in drawing!:)

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Matching Grant MET!

  Scratch my previous post, we are now fully matched with our Lifesong Grant which means we raised $12,000 whaoooo that is a big number. We are only $6,000 from being fully funded. If anyone has any great ideas please feel free to pass them along:)

Check out the thermometer!!!!

   Wow can you see that number!! We are $300 short of meeting our matching grant with Lifesong for Orphans!!! Only $300, so close. That puts our grant total at only $4,600 from being FULLY FUNDED!! I really can't believe it. When we started this adoption we were looking at the $30,000 thinking "God had to do something big." And the circumstances in our lives the past two months have definitely cemented that fact in our heart and minds. One of the fun quotes that goes around in the adoption circles is "It's God's will, it's God's bill." Our boys ransom has almost been paid and we are so ready to go get them. Today marks 5 weeks since we were officially submitted. It might have gone by fast for you, but time seems to be standing still for me! Please prayerfully consider giving to our Lifesong account (Family name Breakfield and number 3911) or to our Reece's Rainbow account just click on our cutie's face to the right of this post!:) If you can't give then please share and pray!!

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Big weeks coming up!

   We are back from Florida and had a nice time away, mom and dad are still recovering!:) This week coming up is like a holding week then next week lots of things "could" happen! We should be hearing back about our Lifesong grant and where we stand with fundraising. We hear from the JSC foundation about the grant with them, Joey has a follow up interview with a potential employer, and we should be getting very close to finding out our travel dates!! Lots of exciting things. God has really been teaching us patience BUT if I were Him....:) We would find out our travel dates so Joey would have lots of information to take to his interview, he would get the job, we would be fully funded by our Lifesong grant and JSC foundation grant, and be traveling in October!:) I know God's timing is perfect and we are trusting Him, but please join us in praying for the patience and faith to continue walking in the path that He has given us. Pray we have joy and peace no matter our circumstances.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Moving on up!!

  Wow things seem to be moving along. We checked our Lifesong account this morning and we have received $700!!! so that money doubles to $1,400! So exciting to see God's people give, thank you! We also heard that three more families received their appointment dates today. That moves us up to 6th in line! Plus those who received appointments were only submitted three weeks before us! Those numbers really don't mean much in the way Eastern Europe does its appointments but it is fun to see us moving up and getting close to "our turn" My arms are itching to hold my boys and to have our family together under one roof! We do need to start doing some major pushing on the fundraising front. We should be traveling in 5-8 weeks and need about $7,000 (after the Lifesong grant) to be fully funded. So close:)

Sunday, September 1, 2013

The colossal car wash!!

   Words cannot describe how Joey and I felt on Saturday during our car wash, if we had not made a single dime we would have left feeling rich beyond our wildest dreams. Our amazing friends and family showed up and blessed us with hard work and lots of laughs. We enjoyed 4 hours of sunshine, soap, water and fellowship (a few cars were washed as well) I was able to share pictures of our sweet boys and explain our adoption journey. My hot hubby stood on the side of the road and waved signs for hours. It was also so very fun to watch all the little ones washing and serving, they didn't even know that they were storing up treasures in heaven! My only regret of the day was not bringing my camera and taking pictures to show our new sons how much they are loved! In my defense I worked the night before and was going on no sleep for over 24 hours:) Our grand total at the end of the wash was $1,278!! A nice step closer to our final goal. A HUGE thank you to everyone who showed up to wash, most with kids in tow, and to the others who stayed at home to watch children. The adoption journey is hard but at a time in our lives when we truly have the least amount of money we have never felt so rich and full of joy! God is so good and He is using His children to bless us so much. Thank you everyone!!