The Journey Continues..... Posted about about 4 years ago

Hello family and friends,We just wanted to send a quick update out about our home study and a few ways that you can be praying and supporting us in the upcoming months.  In exactly 1 month from today, our home study is scheduled to be complete by our agency and we will become a waiting family....Yay! Last week we turned in the last ( finally for now the paperwork is done) of our home study pape...

Giving God the Glory! Posted about about 4 years ago

Ethan and I are overwhelmed with God's grace and provision! We are 5 months into this journey and have raised almost 12000 total!Yesterday ( Saturday ) we had our chili cook-off and had a great turnout. We had about 80 individuals come and raised $3, 451 at the event. With donations here to our blog our coffee fundraiser, selling items on facebook marketplace, and pop cans we have raised close ...

Fundraiser up date: Chili Cook Off Posted about about 4 years ago

Happy New Year friends and family,It's time to get excited, our Chili Cook-Off is 3 weeks awayWe will be at Hagar park in the Device room on January 29th from 11 AM-3 PM. Come on out and enjoy a warm bowl of chili, vote on your favorite chili recipe, and bid on an item in our silent auction. Cost:Lunch- $5 for an individual or $20 for a family of 4 or more and chili tasting is included.Chili t...

First home visit Posted about over 4 years ago

Hello family and friends,We hope you had a great Christmas and that you made many memories with your family. The Niemeyer's had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to the new year with the hope and excitement of growing our family.First, let me start by saying that we are greatly enjoying our adoption agency and are so thankful to have found a wonderful place to make this journey a li...

Application Meating lets just say wow! Posted about over 4 years ago

Hello Family and friends,I am sitting here on an early morning, Christmas music softly playing with the glow of our Christmas lights and processing the past week. It was a big week full of emotions for us. It started out with our nerves on high alert over the anticipation of our application meeting on Thursday. After an evening of barely any sleep for either one of us, we woke up Thursday, spen...

Holiday Fundraisers and next steps Posted about over 4 years ago

Hello family and friends I can't believe it is almost Thanksgiving...wow where is the year 2021 going?I just wanted to send out a reminder about the holiday fundraisers that we have available.1. Coffee, Kcups, Hot cocoa mix, mugs, and travel cups:Check out our Gobena coffee campaign to get your favorite flavor of warm drink this Holiday season. When you order from us we automatically get %50 of...

Pop Can and fundraising up date! Posted about over 4 years ago

Hello Family and friends!I just wanted to send out a quick message and a big thank you to everyone who donated pop cans. After several weeks of returning cans, we have returned them all and raised a total of $742 just in pop can money! We are so incredibly grateful to everyone who donated to our campaign. We look to God and thank him for all of you...it is only because of our Lord and Savior th...

Orientation Meating #2 Posted about over 4 years ago

Hello Family and Friends,I want to start by saying thank you all for your prayers and support. During the last month and a half, Ethan and I have seen God do some amazing things in our life, and it is only because of all of you. When we launched our adoption plans we felt like we were standing at the bottom of a giant mountain needing God's help to even start climbing to the top. Well, a month ...

Pop Can Drive! Posted about over 4 years ago

Hello Family and Friends,Ethan and I are so excited to share some great news with you all. This past weekend we had our pop can drive and it was a huge success. We had lots of families stop by our home and drop off pop cans, we also had several families contact us to pick pop cans up. The result of everyone's generosity is about two trailers fulls of pop cans. It currently looks like a giant pi...

Knew parent orientation #1 Posted about over 4 years ago

Hello Family and Friends,Last night Ethan and I had our first orientation meeting (via Zoom) with our agency, and it was a huge success!First here is some more information about the organization we choose: Greater Hope. They are located in Wyoming Michigan. They helo families throughout the whole state of Michigan and create a family atmosphere for all their adoptive families and birth families...

Let the fundraising begin Posted about over 4 years ago

https://www.bonfire.com/niemeyer-adoption-fund/ Ethan and I have some exciting fundraising news! We have launched our first tee-shirt campaign. If you would like to support us and get a cool tee-shirt, please check out our campaign at the link posted below. We have several styles to choose from in both adult and youth sizes and two color choices: black and gray. When you purchase a tee-shi...

Its not our Plans but Gods Posted about over 4 years ago

Hello friends and family,This week Ethan and I took a week's vacation to the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore to celebrate our one-year anniversary. It has been a week of celebrating our love and prayer. We have been blessed to have such a beautiful area to launch our adoption plans but most importantly too spend lots of time in prayer and worship with God over our child and adoption plans.  A...

Let the Journey Begin! Posted about over 4 years ago

Hello family and friends, Ethan and I are so excited to start this journey and to see where God is going to lead us! First, let me begin by saying that this journey is more than just our fundraising and asking for money. It is much more than that. It is the journey of us becoming non-biological parents for the first time....and we could not be more excited about it! If you read our story you kn...