GO SEEK LOVE Winner #4 + November

The Winner of the fabulous photography session & 10 edited photos on CD by Jessica Boysen photography is....

KATIE B!!!!!

I could not be more thrilled for this family that they won...they are so deserving! They have 3 beautiful children (2 are adopted from Haiti) and I know that Jessica will capture such wonderful pictures of their kids. Thanks again Jessica for this wonderful donation...it was such a blessing for me and for this sweet family.

I can't thank everyone enough for such a wonderful, wonderful month of giveaways and t-shirt sales. You still have until the end of TODAY to order t-shirts at www.goseeklove.com, so if you think you've missed out, there is still some time! Thank you to everyone who bought t-shirts, spread the word for us, donated giveaways, donated/helped at our garage sale and offered their support in any other way. We can't thank you enough...God blessed our fundraising efforts tremendously and I will give you a total profit from our t-shirt sales as soon as I have it. I have to also thank the Dubois family so much for the wonderful opportunity they gave us in partnering with them and their wonderful t-shirts this month. THANK YOU!!!

Here is some more good news... We have had a couple more great giveaways donated to us for the first two weeks in November. I am going to post the first one on Monday, November 1st and it will run through that next Sunday, November 7th. And then I will have a second giveaway from November 8th through November 14th. We'll stop then because the holidays are going to hit and everyone will be busy. :-) Instead of promoting the t-shirts for those two weeks, we will be promoting our Just Love Coffee website and my in-laws seasoning. So please, check back tomorrow for details...the coffee and homemade seasoning will make excellent teacher/Christmas gifts.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

One Less

TWO days left to buy t-shirts! ONE day left to enter the contest for the wonderful photography package giveaway! You better get with it if you want to participate!!! www.goseeklove.com or scroll down to my Giveaway #4 post for details! Help us end this month with a bang!

I was privileged last night to attend a Matthew West concert.
Thank you Abbie!!!
He was really good and has a true gift of writing songs that speak to the situation.
Of course the one that stood out to me most was about adoption.
It is called "One Less".
The video below shows beautiful children from Haiti and is set to the song.
I love the upbeat tempo of it...it brings such hope!
The way to make a difference in the world is one person at a time.
Will you consider making it "one less"?

Pumpkin Patch 2010

You only have until Saturday evening at 6pm to get your entries in for my giveaway this week. Scroll down to the next post for details...you don't want to miss out on this one!!! FREE 1 hour photography session with a wonderful photographer PLUS 10 edited photos on CD for you to do whatever you want with!
Remember, it's our LAST WEEK of the t-shirt sales from www.goseeklove.com. Through Oct 31st, the profits from every t-shirt bought there goes toward our adoption. Check them out for Christmas, teacher or birthday gifts...or for yourself! Please help us end our month long t-shirt fundraiser in a BIG way! You only have a few more days!

My boys LOVE going to the pumpkin patch.
This year was no exception.
I think we've been going to this same one every year since Elijah was a baby.
The pictures don't need any explanations...just that we had fun, fun, fun!

It's Rangers fever around here.
We're watching Game 1 of the World Series right now.
GO RANGERS!!!

GO SEEK LOVE Winner #3 and Giveaway #4

My little helper drew the name for me this week. :-)
THE WINNER OF THE SCENTSY WARMER & $25 CREDIT TO "LITTLE PUMPKIN" IS.........

LINDSEY!!!!

Congratulations! Please get in touch with me at jlandskcox@yahoo.com to claim your prize.

Thank you so much to Kelli & Donna Jo for donating the giveaway prizes this week! I can't believe this is our LAST GIVEAWAY for our t-shirt sales this month!!! It has flown by...that means that you only have 1 MORE WEEK to purchase the Go Seek Love t-shirts to help support our adoption expenses. ONE WEEK! If you've been putting it off, don't any longer...go order yours right now! And you're going to want to when you see what AWESOME giveaway I have this week. Just wait...

But first, just to recap for those of you just now tuning in...we have been given the AMAZING opportunity to partner with the Dubois family for the entire month of October. All proceeds from t-shirts sold at www.goseeklove.com go directly to our adoption fund to help us bring our baby girl home from Ethiopia. They are beautiful & make great Christmas presents - go check them out! We need your help though...buying the shirts, spreading the word and reading our blog. In an effort to encourage participation, we are doing a free giveaway each Sunday in October!!! Now on to GIVEAWAY #4:

If you live in the D/FW area...get ready to get excited! I saved this one for last for a reason...it's pretty awesome, at least I think so and I think you will too.

My friend, Jessica, is an up-and-coming photographer in the metroplex...she ROCKS...her photography is amazing. See for yourself (click to make pictures larger)...



She takes beautiful pictures, very professional and has so generously donated a FREE one hour on location photo shoot for up to 5 people!!! But that's not all...she'll also throw in the best 10 images fully edited on a CD for you to do what you want with them. WOW!!!

So...if you need holiday pictures taken you can book her in November and have some wonderful Christmas card pictures for 2010. She will NOT book this December, but if November doesn't work for you, then you can book your session any time in 2011 as well! Family portraits, child's birthday pictures, bluebonnet pictures, whatever you want! Okay, who's not excited about that and wants to get their name in this drawing?!?!? I wish I could. :-) To visit her facebook fan page and see more of her work, please click HERE.
DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS ONE!!!

Here are the rules again of how you can get into the drawing for this phenomenal prize:

1. Become a Follower of this blog (if you already are a follower just say so in the comments - you can only play this card once all month). Under Followers on the bottom right side of my blog, just click "Follow" and WALLAH, you have your name in the drawing once!

2. Post about this giveaway and our t-shirt sales on Facebook (you can do this again even if you already have)

3. Post about this giveaway and our t-shirt sales on your Blog (same thing - you can do this again even if you already have)

4. Head on over to Jessica's facebook page HERE and "like" her page

5. and 6. BUYING ONE T-SHIRT at www.goseeklove.com gets you TWO entries! Make sure to tell me how many t-shirts you buy!

Be sure to leave a comment telling me EACH entry that you make. Winner will be selected at random by a drawing on Sunday, October 31st and will be posted on my blog. Have your entries in no later than Saturday, October 30th at 6:00pm. DON'T FORGET TO LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS IF YOU WANT IN THE DRAWING!!!

So, this is our last week...thank you so much to everyone who has bought t-shirts and helped support our giveaways this month. We are so thankful. With just one more week, please help us out BIG this week!!! This is our last opportunity to benefit from the t-shirt sales. Please help us end the month in a great way!!!

One last thing...some surprise news that I was not expecting. We have had some more wonderful giveaways donated to us, so we are going to continue with the giveaways in November!!! I have at least one, maybe two more lined up, but instead of promoting the t-shirts, we are going to promote our Just Love Coffee website. So stay tuned in during November for details on that. We think this coffee will make great teacher & Christmas gifts, so keep that in mind for your holiday shopping.

GO into all the world.
SEEK first the kingdom of God.
LOVE your neighbor as yourself.

The Sale {In Pictures}

Scroll down to the next post if you are here to enter into my free giveaway this week (a Scentsy warmer & $25 credit to an online embroidery store) and/or for information on our t-shirt sales this month. For the rest of October only, every t-shirt sold at www.goseeklove.com goes toward our adoption expenses, so check it out and spread the word! There are only 9 DAYS left to get yourself a shirt!!!



There is no way to describe how many donations we received.
You had to have been there to understand.
The garage sale items covered my circular driveway, part of my yard, my front porch, the straight driveway down the side of my house and into my backyard.
It was CRAZY!!!
Judah was so overwhelmed with it all, he just had to stop and get a drink. :-)

I could not have pulled this off without my friends and family.
I'm not going to lie...I was stressed out.
We worked 14 hour days for 4 days leading up to the sale just to get it ready.
I. WAS. EXHAUSTED before the sale even began!!!

These are some of my sweet friends that sacrificed their time to help me out.
Ashlee, Ashley, Katie, LeeAnn and Lori.
There were so many others that helped out in so many other ways but these ladies stuck by FOR A LONG TIME. I have to give a shout out to Abbie too...I didn't get a picture with her but she stayed up late the night before helping us hang clothes, bought us hangers, brought us food, etc.
THANK YOU FRIENDS - I love you guys!

Sweet LeeAnn was a clothes fiend!
And Judah was happy to have a friend to play with...and eat McDonald's with.

Elijah was so proud of his lemonade stand.
We had more furniture donated on Saturday morning.

I have the sweetest neighbors that I didn't even know before this.
Neighbors would come and give me $60 for a $1 item.
Neighbors came back with their own items to donate to our sale.
Like furniture...and swing sets...and $500 clothing to sell on ebay.
I was overwhelmed with everyone's generosity.

We had hundreds of baked goods.
And more lemonade of course.
Elijah got a lot of business just because he's so cute! :-)
He made around $50-$60 just at his lemonade stand.

Of course we could not have done it without Nana & Grangoat who helped all day Saturday.
And MY MOM...oh my goodness, thank you so much mom...this would not have happened without you...she stuck with me ALL WEEK!!! {and maybe helped talk me down from insanity when I absolutely did not think we would pull this off}
Brad & Nova, thanks for your great donations and for helping us clean up!
Are you noticing everyone with their GO SEEK LOVE t-shirts on???

We hauled off 3 truck loads to the dump,
4 truck loads to the Salvation Army,
the rest of the books to a neighbor (about 20 boxes),
half of my storage shed is full for our church garage sale,
and STILL made $3,000!!!
God is good...He provided great weather all week long and blessed us with a very successful sale!
THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO HELPED WITH ANY LITTLE THING!
My children were filthy at the end of the whole ordeal.

One last story (and I don't have a picture...boo).
Some neighbors walked over to our sale with their daughter in her stroller.
Guess where she's from???
Oh yes...Ethiopia.
She is 14 months old and they brought her home in January.
Did I mention they live only a few blocks from us?!?!
And used the same adoption agency that we are?
I love it when God throws in extra little surprises like that.

GO SEEK LOVE Winner #2 and Giveaway #3

GARAGE SALE TOTAL was around $3,000!!!
WOW, God is good and we were so blessed yet are completely exhausted right now! Details and pictures to come later this week.

Now on to the reason for this post...
THE WINNER OF THE CUSTOM-MADE CAKE IS.........

JILL!!!!

Congratulations! Please get in touch with me at jlandskcox@yahoo.com to claim your prize. Jill is a sweet friend of mine from high school and I KNOW she's excited to win this! Yay Jill!!!

Thanks so much to everyone who spread the word about the giveaway for us, bought t-shirts and entered your name in the drawing. And thanks again to Jennifer for donating her yummy cake! Jill, you are in for a treat...and you all don't forget about her the next time you're in need of a cake!

Just to recap for those of you just now tuning in...we have been given the AMAZING opportunity to partner with the Dubois family for the entire month of October. All proceeds from t-shirts sold at www.goseeklove.com go directly to our adoption fund to help us bring our baby girl home from Ethiopia. They are beautiful & make great Christmas presents - go check them out! We need your help though...buying the shirts, spreading the word and reading our blog. In an effort to encourage participation, we are doing a free giveaway each Sunday in October!!! Now on to GIVEAWAY #3:

I have two sweet friends who have so generously donated some great things this week!! Thanks SO much ladies!

First, my friend Kelli sells Scentsy and has given me a really cute "groovy black" Scentsy plug-in warmer base with 15-watt bulb and a package of 6 Scentsy wickless wax cubes in "Hemingway"...a $20 value. I have never personally used Scentsy before but have heard great things about their products! Makes a great gift or will make your house smell great!



And then my friend Donna Jo has an embroidery business, "Little Pumpkin", and has donated a $25 credit to her online store! Check out her CUTE items at www.donnajohagar.etsy.com . She has some adorable holiday items and of course if there is a new baby coming or you want something personalized for your child, you won't want to miss out on this! Here is some of her work...



Here are the rules again of how you can get into the drawing for these great prizes:

1. Become a Follower of this blog (if you already are a follower just say so in the comments - you can only play this card once all month). Under Followers on the bottom right side of my blog, just click "Follow" and WALLAH, you have your name in the drawing once!

2. Post about this giveaway and our t-shirt sales on Facebook (you can do this again even if you already have)

3. Post about this giveaway and our t-shirt sales on your Blog (same thing - you can do this again even if you already have)

4. Head on over to www.scentsy.com/kelliclark and www.donnajohagar.etsy.com to see these two ladies' great items for sale- checking out BOTH will get you TWO entries this week!

5. and 6. BUYING ONE T-SHIRT at www.goseeklove.com gets you TWO entries! Make sure to tell me how many t-shirts you buy!

Be sure to leave a comment telling me EACH entry that you make. Winner will be selected at random by a drawing on Sunday, October 24th and will be posted on my blog. Have your entries in no later than Saturday, October 23rd at 6:00pm. DON'T FORGET TO LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS IF YOU WANT IN THE DRAWING!!!

Check back each week for a new giveaway. Thank you so much for helping us spread the word and supporting our efforts to bring our daughter home. We are unbelievably halfway through our t-shirt fundraiser this month! We have had great success so far and are hoping to keep up a good pace the rest of the month...we're counting on YOU to help us do that!

Have a great week! My next post later this week will have pictures and details about our garage sale.

GO into all the world.
SEEK first the kingdom of God.
LOVE your neighbor as yourself.

adding some "season" to the sale

Scroll right on down to the next post if you are here about our t-shirt sales and/or free giveaway this month. Only 4 comments on the cake so far?!?!?!? Come on people...if you live in this area, you don't want to miss out on this...get your name in the drawing ASAP!!! You don't even have to buy a t-shirt to have a chance!
All proceeds from www.goseeklove.com go directly to our adoption fund in the month of October. Spread the word!

Aren't these adorable?
My in-laws have long made their own yummy homemade seasoning.
Family and close friends have been the only ones lucky enough to have it.
Until now.
Now they are making and selling these adorable 4.5 oz jars of it for $5.00.
All proceeds go to bring their granddaughter home.
Don't I have the most supportive & wonderful family?
I love that everyone is wanting to do their own thing to help out.
And this stuff really is yummy...on meat, veggies, just about anything!
Email me if you're interested in buying some: jlandskcox@yahoo.com

We will be selling them at the garage sale as well.
We have TONS and TONS of stuff!!!
It is the most stuff I have ever seen at a residential garage sale.
We are so blessed!
Come on out on Friday & Saturday and PLEASE bring people with you!
Spread the word and email me if you don't know where I live.

We had fun this past weekend picking out pumpkins
and visiting Depot Days with Nana & Grangoat.

I have to close by saying...go out and buy this book or check it out from the library like I did...it is excellent!!! Beware that it is hard-core, so only pick this one up if you're really ready to make some changes and start living like Jesus did. It'll punch you in the gut a few times.

RADICAL: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
by David Platt
http://www.radicalthebook.com