Fall Fun While Waiting for Homestudy

That's right folks....no homestudy yet. After checking on our background checks and getting sent to voicemail numerous times, Jana put her foot down and got through to the right person. We should be hearing any day now with our final homestudy! Yeah, we've heard that before...

While we've been waiting, we've been busy. A few weeks ago, the Veggie Tales came to our church with their God Made You Special show. The kids loved it, and since Jana's parents helped out, we got to MEET BOB AND LARRY! Majil was scared, but Paisley was PUMPED:


We also carved pumpkins last week. Paisley wanted a scary pumpkin (with freckles), Majil wanted a funny pumpkin. They did a great job!



Our bible study went out to a farm for a hayrack ride and smores last weekend. They had face painting and pumpkin painting. We were fortunate enough to get a family picture too!



Paisley had a costume party at school too. This year, she's a cat. Majil is going to be a princess, although she won't keep her costume on long enough for a picture. If playing dress-up= no problem. For Dad's camera = major trouble. So here's Paisley:


Finally, we've added to our Etsy site with onesies:


Hopefully, our next post will be with good news about the waiting list!

We've been tagged!

So we've been tagged by Joy, Missy, and Paul & DeeDee, so here's 7 fun and lesser-known facts about us:

1) We met at Texas Christian University (Go Frogs), which is about 12 hours away from our hometowns, which are only 50 miles apart. She went to meet a Southern Gentleman, I went to meet a Southern Belle. What started as "just needing a ride back for Thanksgiving" turned into what you see today. Our first real date was a TCU football game. Jana tripped TWICE; once on the sidewalk on the way to the game, once UP the stairs to our seats. Smooth and endearing.


2) At one time in my life, I was in a band (some might have called it a "boy band") with bleach blond dreadlocks. We recorded a CD in Nashville and drove around in a Maroon VW van.


3) When Jana was 4, she had a chance to see some young tigers up close with her Dad. Because she was scared, she was on her Dad's shoulders, but one of the tigers thought her dangling leg was a toy and jumped up and bit it. She remembers a lot of blood and people freaking out, but that's about it. She had to get several stitches and was in all the papers. And she still has scars on her leg. She had me at hello after that story...

4) Jana is currently suffering through her 11th kidney stone. That's right, 11. I have had one, but promise it was LOTS bigger than any of Jana's. (not really...)

5) Paisley's name was from a caption in a rockclimbing magazine; we kept going back to it when picking out girl's names. Majil's name is from a friend of ours at TCU...we liked how it sounded (pronounced "May-Jill", but we call her Mae).

6) Jana is ALWAYS cold, I am ALWAYS hot. From about August to June, Jana sleeps with a bag of corn that is warmed up in the microwave to keep her feet warm. It grosses me out; it smells like popcorn. BY HER FEET. Still don't know why they don't pop.

7) We started our own language shortly after we met. It drove every one of our friends absolutely crazy. We don't use it very often, but it still comes up at least once per day. We also use similar phrases and mannerisms. The pinnacle was when one of us said "pajamas" and we both acted like we were zipping up an adult size of footie pajamas.

Don't worry, that's not me. Promise. You can find anything in Google Images.

Thanks for tagging us! We'll pass it on!

Let the fundraising begin!

We've been brainstorming ideas for fundraising. Some ideas are great, others....well, not so much. We plan on doing a number of things, but the most fun (to date) has been the launching of our Etsy site! For those of you who don't know, Etsy is a site that allows people to sell handcrafted items. "What kind of handcrafted goods do the boring ol' daddy's daisies people make?" do you say? Excellent question:

Ethiopia Adoption Announcement

Africa Note Card

See our Etsy shop here: Daddy's Daisies on Etsy!

We have two cards right now with about 20 more (not all Africa or Ethiopia related...) in the basement, er..."design studio". (See: extra bedroom.) We will be adding more as time goes on, but since we're just hanging out, waiting for our homestudy, we wanted to do something to get our minds off things AND help spread the word about Ethiopia and Africa in general.

So, if you'd be so kind; spread the word. Email, blog, etc. and share these with people who might be interested. Also, cards can be customized with other countries too, for those of you adopting from Korea, China, etc.

Thanks so much!

p.s. If someone can tell me how to post two pictures side by side, we'll be done with all this "single file picture" riff-raff that makes me seasick to scroll past...