T-SHIRTS!!!!

This will be our LAST box of shirts for sale for our fundraiser!!!!

We have been so blessed to have been given these beautiful shirts specially made for our daughters adoption!! We have raised over $1000 since Sept.2012 and we are blessed.
We have only 70 shirts left of all different colors and sizes and we will not be getting anymore EXTRA boxes.
 If you would like to be apart of her coming home and wearing one of these great shirts to show that you support her future please send me your color and size. If we have your size we will mail your shirt out after receiving your payment!!! but if we happen to NOT have your size we be able to get your size in by April 19th. Only per-order!
We will not be able to get any shirts reprinted after this date and we will have NO extras.

Please help in a small way and make a huge impact!

Back ground color is the color of the shirts and all art is on the back (full back)

BELIEVE SHIRT comes in orange , black, and navy
SIZES
Youth M or L $15
Adult S-XL $20
Up Size 2X-5X $22
Shipping $3

ANGEL SHIRTScomes in irish green, chocoate brown, dark purple and gray!

SIZES

Youth XS - L $10

Adult S-XL $20

Up Size 2X-5X $22
Shipping $3

PURCHASE NOW BY PAY PAL OR MAIL A CHECK TO OUR ADOPTION FUND AT:

CAPITAL ONE BANK 

200 Thomas Rd. 

West Monroe , LA 71291

Donation " China Baby"

All check need to be made out to "Strickland"

A Fresh Look! Bella!!!!

February 11, 2013

Jeremy and I were so blessed today! We received a update of information on Miss Bella.
We were able to send in a request because her referral information was over one year old. We had no idea how long it would take, like all things, but God always seems to push it right through....26 days! Because I can't wait another second to show you that our baby girl now looks like a big girl........... Here she is!!!

I have wondered every single day what she would look like a whole year older. Doesn't she look like a 2 year old now? I was so pleasantly surprised of course!

The report was great. The last 9 months she has started to thrive forward. That is because she has a Mommy, Daddy, and brother now, a church family and hundreds of people praying for her. It is powerful!!!! Life changing!! Look at her face and you tell me than God does not have a mighty plan for her life and working it out!

She is walking now "FAST" they said. She is now with a living group so that's super that she is able to "live" with other children now for social interactions and it tells me that she is strong enough! They said that she was eating soft and crunchy foods and that she still was on formula 3 to 4 times a day. She is now up to 22lbs and I am thrilled but after putting her measurements into a chart for children's clothes sizes it still put her in a 9 to 12 months for her height and weight? That is still so small to me! 

She doesn't get sick easily and has not been. Thank you Jesus!
Her heart was not mentioned at all and that disappointed me but through all my learning with my "heart to heart moms" I figured that if her repairs were not holding up well then she would have been having issues with bronchitis and or phenomena. So I am taking that as a good sign! They told us that her eye sight doesn't seem to be any different from the other children but she would NOT corporate for her eye exam. So as for the clarity they were unsure. She is not talking very much, they shared that she can say momma, good-bye momma and auntie in Chinese but that was pretty much it. Even though she doesn't talk much they say she understands everything and know each child's name in her group. At the end they put that she will push chairs and pull down everything that her nannies clean up. They called her "mischievous and naughty!" I thought "they have to be lying on my baby!" Then I opened the next picture and had to laugh! Oh well guess they'er not! Well that's just fine if she has some fight and strong will!!! That's why she has made it through! She'll our "naughty" girl! Ha Ha....

Doen'st she look like she has a big plan just as soon as she finds a way to get out of that gate? LOL.....

We did have just one small report that we were not excepting. She had a CT done back in June and it has some information that is a little puzzling to us . We were not aware of anything found in her brain before on her original referral but doctors are suggesting MRI and something about a "white mass"? I do not accept any truths about anything until she is in my arms, at our doctors, looking and reading new tests but I still ask for special pray over this. She is our daughter and we will face what ever we must together as a family.

My prayer is that God continues to protect her when I can't get there any faster than when I can!! 

Please continue to pray for our sweet daughter. Pray her all the way home to Louisiana!! We still have so much to accomplish before stepping onto that plane. Thank you to each of you that has prayed for her and for us this far. And thank you from my whole heart for being concerned with our little girl. I know that she is very special to many!

My daughter .....beautiful with imperfections, true happiness within, and clarity without delays!! 

Bella   Xin  KaLare