T-Shirt Fundraiser!

We are teaming up with my friend Kelly and her company, Minus 1 Project, to sell these awesome t-shirts and help Bring Home Bella!

The shirts come in three colors, grey, orange and pink, as seen below. The available sizes are Youth XS-L, and Adult Small- 3X.

The cost is $20 per shirt, and $10 of the cost goes directly towards Bringing Bella Home!!!! If you need your shirt shipped, it will cost $2.50 extra for mailing costs.

You get an awesome shirt to wear, AND you help bring home our precious Starfish, Bella! It's a win-win situation!

We would like to have the orders in by January 15th. Please send me a Facebook message with your order, or you can email me at bellasmommy2013@gmail.com

Thank you for your continued support, and for helping us in this journey! God bless you all!

For as long as I can remember, I have had this dream to adopt a little girl from China. I married a wonderful man who shared my dream.

For the past five years, we have had it on our hearts to some day adopt a little one with lifelong special needs. We have prayed and waited and now, finally, this is the year! We could not be more excited to be looking forward to Bella's arrival this year.

We are not saints for "doing this." She is not "lucky" that we are adopting her. We don't "have" to adopt a child who is paralyzed from the waist down because we have "so many kids. " We CHOSE her!!!!!!!! Exactly as she is! Perfectly and wonderfully and beautifully made by God himself!

She is our long awaited answer to prayer; she is a dream come true. In her daddy's words, "I feel like I won the lottery, I am so lucky to get to be her dad."

Little girl, you are so very LOVED!!!!! I just wanted to shout that from the rooftops today!

Kindle Fire Drawing!!!!!!!

First of all, how can we ever thank you all for your amazing support? You donated, you shared our story with your friends, you cheered us on and you prayed for us. You love Bella and you did whatever you could to help bring her home to us. We can not possibly put our gratitude into words. We love you all.

Old friends, new friends, and even complete strangers came together and we raised over $1,400 to help bring our beautiful daughter, Bella Elise, home from China!

And now, without further ado, what you all really want to know.....

Who won?!?!?!?!?!?

Well, to keep things fair, I had a non-reading, fairy tale princess draw the winning name from the basket.

Please excuse her morning hairdo.





After a good mixing and shaking, we were ready to draw.





Hmmmm..... Whoever will it be?

Drumroll, please......






And.... Here is the winner..... It is.........




Upside down!!!!!! Oopsies!!!!!!!






There, that's better!

CONGRATULATIONS, LORI INGBER!!!!!!!!!!!




Hooray!!!!!

Congratulations Lori, and many thanks to you and everyone else who entered this drawing!

Watch for more fun ways to help Bring Home Bella in early 2013. And don't forget our Origami Owl Fundraiser, happening right now!

Origami Owl Fundraiser!

Now through December 31, shop for beautiful lockets, charms and other jewelry at http://shannonschoon.origamiowl.com/index.cfm and then forward your completed order, AND MENTION IT IS FOR "REIMER ADOPTION", otherwise we will not get credit for it, to owl@peaceofmindjewelry.com

Thank you for your help in bringing Bella home! ♥

****Please order by December 10th for Christmas delivery!****

Kindle Fire Giveaway!!!!

Our first fundraiser for Bringing Home Bella is starting today and will run through November 30, 2012.

We are giving away a brand new Kindle Fire HD!!!!!!  (16GB, Valued at $199.)

Here is how it will work.  One donation of $10 will get you one ticket for the drawing.  $25 will get you THREE tickets for the drawing.  $35 will get you four tickets, $50 gets you six, and so on and so forth. 

If you enter this drawing and then share about it on your Facebook page, please comment here and you will get one additional entry per week that you share on Facebook!

Click on the ChipIn on the side bar to enter.  If you are uncomfortable entering online, you can message me and we will work out something else!

Thank you to all who are supporting Bella whether it be by participating in this giveaway or through your thoughts and prayers!!!

Introducing.... Bella Elise!!!!

We are so thrilled to be on this journey to China and our sweet daughter Bella!

Our journey to Bella has not been easy.  We first heard about Bella in April.  We quickly fell in love with her sweet smile and her gentle spirit.  Due to circumstances beyond our control, we were not able to proceed with adopting her at that time.  We thought of her and prayed for her often over the summer months.  And in August, we were given another opportunity to ask China for permission to bring her home to our family.  We received Pre-Approval (PA) on August 17th and have been busy with paperwork ever since!

Bella was born with spina bifida and hydrocephalus.  She has worked really hard and is overcoming these extra challenges with the amazing love and care given to her by the angels who run the Starfish Foster Home.  They literally saved her life and continue to nurture her and love her until we can go and bring her home.

We can not WAIT to hold her, kiss her sweet cheeks and welcome her home to her forever family!