They're here!!!

I told you about the photo shoot we did a couple of weeks ago for the budding photographer. Here are some of the promised pics... more on Facebook. :) I LOVE THEM!!! Need a photog? www.traci-marie.com Oh, and I usually take the time to put pics in order on here, but I do not have the energy... but even out of order- these pics rock!!! :)









I like his tongue sticking out here... :)

Adoption Awareness Month

As we all know, October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Now, don't get me wrong, I was greatly affected by breast cancer myself. My grandmother fought it 3 times before it finally took her life in 2002 at the young age of 56.

BUT, October is over. November is Adoption Awareness Month. One of my goals/dreams in life is that Adoption Awareness Month will be as "celebrated" as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.


Check out my post from today from my other blog.


To kick off this month, I will reveal the name of our African Angels. :) Lord willing, we will be adopting, (in like 2 years or so), 2 African Angels. They probably are not even born yet, but I already love them. Please join me in praying for these angels and all of the other African Angels that are orphaned. All they want this Christmas is a Daddy and Mommy.

Ann Marie Paulie Keierleber and Bradford Paul Keierleber

Ann Marie Paulie is the name of my character in my book, "She is Not Your Real Mommy." It is only fitting for our little African Angel girl to be named after her. :) How cool will it be for Ann Marie to do a book report over a book written by her mommy and starring her! :) My dad was adopted... Ann was his birth mother and Marie is his mom. That is where I got the name Ann Marie. I wanted to give her a tie to us, but lets face it, Keierleber is a name and a half! lol So, I gave her the name Paulie, (my husband's name is Paul). We are making this her middle name in real life, so she will be named after her daddy, 2 of her paternal great grandma's on her mother's side, her maternal great grandmother on her mother's, (her middle name was Ann :)), and her mommy, (Marie is my middle name). Pretty cool, huh? :)

Bradford Paul takes a little less explanation. I have a list of boy's names that I like, and this was Paul's favorite, so we picked it! lol And his middle name is after is daddy of course. Pretty explanatory! lol


Ann Marie is a pretty traditional name, and I prefer unique names. She will probably be the only one of our children with a traditional name. BUT, while her name is traditional, it has a pretty cool background! :) Bradford is quite different, and for our other children, we have pretty cool names picked out too! :)

Please join us in praying for Ann Marie and Bradford. AND for all of the other orphans in the world- everyday, and especially during Adoption Awareness Month. Please get the word out. ♥

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes...

I GOT A NEW JOB!

After training at JCPenny Photography for ONE DAY, I got a new job! lol I was REALLY excited about JCP but I found a better offer! :)

I started today with a wonderful family. They own a real estate company, and have 3 children. I work a little at the company, and then spend the rest of my time with the kids! This is sooo perfect for me! I LOVE the mom- well, I love everyone at the company! I spent today with C, and I met A and M. I LOVE C! She is so cute and soo fun!!! She is a little chef- puts me to shame for sure! I just love her! I can't wait to get to know A and M better!

Hopefully no more job changes here! lol




Ok, so I have no pics for this post either, so I will post another one from the photo shoot- hopefully I will get them all soon and I will do a full post over the up and coming photographer! :)
Can you tell how much I love him? ;)

Rolla- Coasta

WE ARE NOT MOVING TO CALIFORNIA.

Yes, these last few weeks have been a roller coaster for me. One week we are moving to Dallas, the next California, and then finally we decide to stay here.

With being on the roller coaster for so long, I have no energy to go into all the details of the move etc. Just know we are here to stay for at least 3 years.

Besides PK going to seminary, (he will be attending Dallas Theological Seminary here in Houston), what does this entail for our family?


THE ADOPTION IS BACK ON!!!!!

Well, kinda. You see I am going back to work. I will not be working long enough to invest in having a class room and all that that requires etc, so I am just getting a job to pay the bills so to speak. A job that is easily left when need be, ya know? (like one that will not require the use of my college degree, but that's ok lol). So, I start tomorrow at JC Penny as a photographer! I am actually pretty excited about this job. It sounds like something I will REALLY enjoy! I also applied to James Avery, so we'll see if that pans out. There are two reasons why I am so willing to work my butt off at two jobs.

Paul's job will pay for home, bills, food, seminary, etc.

My job will pay for:
1. MY CAR! It will take approximately 7 months to pay it off. I told my boss that I am willing to work open to close etc, cause I REALLY want the money because...

2. After the car is paid off- We will not be adopting locally as before, we are going to go to Africa and we will bring home a baby boy and a toddler girl, (Lord willing)!!! Please be in prayer for our little ones. I'll give names later! ;) (No we have not picked them out, nor will we for awhile- we just know we want a girl and a baby brother for her). :) Obviously, this endeavor is costly, (it actually costs what a new car would cost or what seminary would cost, so yeah, its expensive). We could afford to just save up money with PKs job etc, but we would have to wait. SO, I am going to work work work to get them home asap. We are still looking at another almost 2 years till they are home with us, but it is still better than going to Cali and putting the adoption on hold for 3 or more years! :) In about 7 months we will begin the process of Adopting our African Angels!


Last week I mentioned my photo shoot with a budding photographer... well here is a sneak peek of her work... of the few I have seen, this is one of my FAVES!!!



How cute is this??? :) Once I get them all, I will post more and link to her website! :)

Your prayers have meant so much to me, thank you so much!

January 26, 2010

MY BOOK WILL HIT STORES JANUARY 26, 2010!!!!!! YEA!!!

Sugar Land Dog Park

Here are the pics I mentioned that we taken by Ruth Rose Photography during the grand opening of the Sugar Land dog park.


Obviously, I had not anticipated being photographed. I look disgusting, but oh well. How often do mommies and babies get photographed together? lol

The ad work I did for the other photographer turned out AWESOME!!! I will post those soon! :)

Time to let the cat out of the bag...

Today, I did that shoot I told you about yesterday and it was WONDERFUL! I CAN'T WAIT till I get to see them! YEA!

I told you about last week at the dog park there was a photog... she said the pics would be posted within the week... well, its been a week- COME ON NOW! lol I have no patience!

I bought Jersey this car seat... how cute? :)
This is more of his personality, for sure! :) He is just so cute, I can't stand it! :)


Ok, so did you see my jab at you? Did you notice I said, "I have no patience." Did you catch it? I know- y'all have had to be VERY patience in hearing our big changes.

Well, in January Paul and I are taking a week long vacation to California! Yea!

Wait- is that it? Really? A vacation?

Well, no. That's not it. I made a new header for our blog to debut after Christmas...


We are visiting California because we are MOVING TO CALIFORNIA!!! :) Paul is going to attend Master's Seminary! We are so excited where God is leading us! We will be selling our house, down sizing immensily, and I will be going to work, (hence the hold on adoption). We will be moving at least by July- if not sooner. :) More news on this as it comes! :)