It's That Time

To all of our friends, family, and followers;

Mollie and I have finished packing our suit cases, diaper bag(s) and will finish packing her SUV tomorrow afternoon.  We will be leaving for Memphis tomorrow around 2:30 or 3:00 pm.  I will have a half day at work tomorrow and will be getting off work at 1:30.  The young lady we are adopting from has requested us to be at the hospital Tuesday morning with her when she goes in at 7:30 am for her admittance.  Her C-section is scheduled for 9:30 am Tuesday and she has requested Mollie to be back there with her during the procedure.  Mollie and I will be able to hold our daughter Ainsleigh Nikole Reynolds Tuesday morning.  We are very blessed and grateful!!!  We are giving God all the praise, glory and honor for the miracles we have received from him during this process. 

Mollie and I are requesting all of your prayers for the next week.  We would like for all of you to remember to pray for us each day this week.  Starting Monday for our travel.  Then on Tuesday for Ainsleigh and her biological mom for the C-section procedure.  Then to continue praying Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for her mom's healing and recovery, the termination of parental rights, the ICPC (the legal paperwork needed to be approved for us to bring Ainsleigh home), Mollie and I as we become first time parents, and for us to be able to come home early the following week so that Mollie and I can get settled in our home with our daughter.

Let me say THANK YOU in advance for all of your prayers and to leave you with the verse Mollie and I have stood on during this process...

Habakkuk 1:5 "...watch and be utterly amazed.  For I (God) am going to do something in your day that you would not believe even if you were told."

Also, a quote that a friend of ours that is going through an adoption of their own.  "Don't doubt in the dark, what God has shown in the light." L. Smith

Here comes Ainsleigh

Well, some of you may already know, but for those who don't, Mollie and I will be parents in less than 2 WEEKS!!!!  Ainsleigh Nikole Reynolds will be born by c-section on January 10, 2012.  We will be heading up to Memphis on January 9th to get our hotel and to be there in case the doctor schedules an early delivery.  The birth mom is having another doctor visit this morning and will be asking what time the section is scheduled.  We are really excited and can't wait.  I started on and finished the nursery about a week and a half ago.  Pictures of it are on my facebook page.  Thank you all for all of your support, whether that was through prayers, financial gifts, or whatever way you supported us.  THANK YOU ALL!!!  Please continue to pray for the Tennessee side of the adoption, that all will go smoothly and quickly so we can bring Ainsleigh home as soon as we can. 

The Meeting

Hello everyone!  Mollie and I hope that you have had a great Thanksgiving and that you are all ready for celebrating Christ's birthday this Christmas. 

Mollie and I wanted to inform everyone about our meeting with the young lady we are adopting from last week.  It was a great meeting.  Mollie and I both feel very blessed to be adopting from some one with such a great heart.  She was very forth coming with information with all the questions we asked and was eager to ask questions herself.  Mollie and I were able to go with her to her doctor's appointment after our lunch meeting and Mollie went back with the young lady.  When the doctor walked in, he asked, "and you are?"  Mollie responed by telling him her name and his response was, "Oh, you're the adopting parent."  We were stunned that he already knew.  Then Mollie was able to her Ainsleigh's heart beat.  We ended the day by meeting up with some old friends of ours that had moved to Memphis a few years ago.  It was a great DAY until...

We got home at 11:30 Wednesday night after driving home from Memphis.  We were so tired, we didn't notice anything in the front of our house.  As I was leaving for work the next morning, I opened the front door of our house to find two boxes on our front step.  I asked Mollie if she had purchased anything off line for Christmas and she said, "No, why?"  Well, I brought in the boxes, opened them and found that we had 2 items from our baby registry.  The young lady we are adopting from got us those gifts!  We were blown away!  I am unashamed to say it, but I cried on the way to work.  Then, after I got home from work and small group Thursday night, there was another box.  It had 4 items from our registry...YEP!  You guessed it!  She had purchased us a total of 6 things for Ainsleigh.  May God receive all the praise, glory, and honor! 

Be praying for us as we meet our attorney for our first face to face meeting this coming Wednesday!

Oh, and by the way, the doctor told Mollie and the young lady that she is not 31 weeks but 34 weeks along!  We will be parents in about 5 and a half weeks!!!! 

Spirit Night

Hey everyone.  Mollie and I will be having a Spirit Night at Chick-Fil-A on Lakeland Drive to help raise money for our adoption.  It will be from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm.  We will receive 10 % of all the inside sales.  So, please come in and eat Chick-Fil-A tonight for supper.  We will be there with some of our friends and family.   Would love to see you all there.  Thank you in advance for your supporting our adoption of Ainsleigh Nikole!!!

By the way, we had a wonderful turn out for our 5k and we are still selling t-shirts.  Please let Mollie know if you would like to purchase a t-shirt tonight.  She will have shirts at Chick-Fil-A tonight if you would like to purchase one.  They are only $15.00.

Opportunities

Hey everybody!!!  I know it has been a little while since Mollie and I updated our blog.  Of course we have been busy with work and trying to get the final few things finished with our home study, which will be done next week after we take our second dog to the vet.  Any way, we wanted to inform everyone that 1) we have named our little girl Ainsleigh Nikole and 2) she will be born on January 11, 2012 by C-section.  Please be in prayer for Ainsleigh and her birth mother for their continued good health and that the delivery goes very smooth.

We also want to let you all in on a new opportunity and two that are coming up quick.  Our 5k run/walk FUNraiser is coming up November 5th.  If you would like to participate and have not filled out a registration form, please go by Chick-Fil-A on Lakeland Drive, fill it out, and return it to the same Chick-Fil-A with your $25.00 registration fee that will include your t-shirt.  If you would only like to buy a t-shirt, we have those in now and they look great.  They are $15.00 a shirt.  Now for the new opportunity.  Mollie and I have been given a great blessing by our restaurant we work for, Chick-Fil-A at Dogwood Festival Market on Lakeland Drive, a SPIRIT NIGHT!!!!  Shane, you are asking, what is a SPIRIT NIGHT?  I am glad you asked.  Spirit nights are a benefit that Chick-Fil-A does.  Our SPIRIT NIGHT will be on November 14th from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm.  During those 2 hours, 10% of all the inside sales will be donated to us to help with our adoption.  Please mark your calender and make Chick-Fil-A on Lakeland Drive your dinner destination between 6:00 and 8:00 pm.

Thank you for all of your support, whether that is prayer, financial or any of the other forms of support that I cannot think of at this time.  Hahaha.  Again, Mollie and I thank you all.

SURPRISE!!!

Mollie and I have been busy working and trying to finalize our home study and our fundraisers.  We placed our order for the t-shirts today and will have them in our possession soon.  We have our fliers being posted in different places, a commercial on Star 93.5, and our registration forms for our 5k at Chick-Fil-A at Dogwood Festival Market in Flowood.  So, what's the surprise?  I am glad you asked...

Mollie and I have been given some information from her brother and his wife of a young lady that is looking to do a private adoption for her second child.  Due to the sensitivity of this decision and for her privacy we have decided not to blog her name.  We have been in contact with her and know that she has a precious 3 year old already and is a single mom.  She told us that she is not able to afford to keep the child she is pregnant with and is looking for a good family to give her child to.  I spoke with her last week and found out that the girl's mom is full blooded Cherokee Indian and her dad is Caucasian.  The baby's father is African American.  So can we say, "BEAUTIFUL baby!"  Well, during the most busy part of my day today, I received 6 text messages.  I did not know it at the time because I was seeing client, after client, after client.  When my day finally ended, I checked my text messages to find that one of those were from the young lady we have been talking to and 4 or 5 of them were from Mollie.  The young lady text both of us today around 2:15 this afternoon to let us know that she had her latest ultrasound today and the doctor said that the baby is looking great and everything looks to be going well.  Oh, and by the way, ITS A GIRL!!! 

We were a little taken back at first to be honest, just for the fact that we have been praying so much for our possibility of a little boy, Kolton Garrett, from South Korea.  We spoke with our social worker and she told us that while private adoptions are good, she did tell us that at the birth of the child, the mother still holds the right to change her mind and keep the child.  She told us that if we are interested in this, go for it but keep in mind that the mother has the right to change her mind and if she does decide to keep the child, we are still in line for the Korean adoption.  Mollie and I are excited but we have already prepared all our fundraisers for a boy named Kolton Garrett and as of now, that's the road we thought we were on.  We are wanting every one to know that any and all financial support is going towards our adoption, whether its a little girl from Tennessee or a possible boy from Korea.  We also would like to know some of your thoughts about this news since you all are family and friends.

New and Updated information

Mollie and I are very excited to let every one know that we have finalized our t-shirt designs and have given the print shop the go ahead on production of them.  Our friends at Oneway Promotional Products are doing the t-shirts and we are starting a pre-sale for our t-shirts.  If any one would like to help us with our adoption by ordering t-shirts, please let us know.  Please make checks payable to Mollie or Shane Reynolds and in the memo, write ADOPTION.  You can bring your checks and orders to Chick-Fil-A on Lakeland Drive at Dogwood Festival Market.  Here are the prices:
          Youth - XLarge              $15.00
          2XLarge - 4XLarge       $17.00

Here is the updated and finalized information about our 5k run/walk fundraiser.  The fundraiser is affectionately called "Five for Kolton."  It will be on November 5th, 2011.  The participants that wish to run, that will start at 8:00 am.  For those who are walking it, that will start 15 minutes later at 8:15 am.  We ask that all participants be at The Church At Northshore, 498 Northshore Parkway in Brandon, MS, at least 45 minutes early.  The route of the race will start at the end of the parking lot at the church.  Then cross the street and turn left onto the track.  Next, go down to Fox Bay and turn around and go back to the church.  The fee for the 5k is $25.00 per participant and this price will include your t-shirt.  There will be a late registration at 7:00 am but you are not guaranteed a shirt.  There will be a free Chick-Fil-A breakfast for the first 200 participants.  You can pick up and drop off your 5k registration form along with your registration fee at Chick-Fil-A on Lakeland Drive at Dogwood Festival Market.

If you feel led to just give a monetary gift, make those checks payable to Mollie or Shane Reynolds.  You, too, can drop those off at Chick-Fil-A on Lakeland Drive.

We would like to take this time and thank all of you who are praying for us and for our baby boy Kolton.  Thank you to all our family and friends.  For those of you who have helped us through this process so far;

Bridget Bruenig, Ashton Corley, Katie Fatheree, Bry Freeman, Oneway Promotional Products, The Church At Northshore, Andy and Alli Leatherman, and Chick-Fil-A at Dogwood Festival Market, Mollie and I want to give a special thanks to.

Of course we are humbled and gracious to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, for without him, none of this would even be possible.