Fingerprinting

The day has finally arrived for Lewis and I to be finger printed for immigration.  I am so excited and nervous.  Excited because it is taking us one step closer to our little girl, but nervous that we are closer to meeting our little girl.  We feel truly blessed that God has taken our family on this amazing adventure.  I am so thankful for our family and friends for your prayers, support, and gifts.  We have a new prayer request that could use as much prayer as possible.  Lewis and I have applied for an adoption grant through helpusadopt.org.  The grant we have applied for will be for $10,000.  The prayer is that God will inspire the hearts of the committee to find our application worthy.  

Pancake Fundraiser

I am still in awe of how God showed up in such a wonderful and profound way on Saturday.  After  weeks of preparing, planning, and praying our first large fundraiser is over and completed.  We personally want to thank our life group and our parents for coming out so early in the morning to help us.  We also want to thank and brag about our three boys. They were awesome helpers and willing workers.  Our boys were the waiters and I am happy to report we did not have any spills.  Our breakfast started at 7:00 a.m. and ended at 10:30 a.m..  When no one showed up until 8:30 we were getting nervous (I have to admit).  However, at 9:00 it started to pick up.  We served 50 people breakfast! The fundraiser made close to $1,000!  We should have only made $200 if everyone had paid what was asked.  This amount would not have covered our expense, however, God showed up!  God had who he wanted to be at our breakfast.  We are so thankful to God for taking care of us and our daughter! Thanks God you rock!

One Week Away

We are one week away for our biggest fundraiser!  Please Please help us by spreading the word.  Please email, facebok, or tweet your friends.  This is a great opportunity to have breakfast with your life group or friends.  We have not set a goal because we trust that God will truly come through.  Remember Saturday October 29 from 7:00a.m. to 10:30 a.m. All You Can Eat Pancake Breakfast at Holland Park in Fishers.  We would love to see you there.  If you would be interested in volunteering please let me know.  Please pray for our family during this time.  We are far below our goal needed to make the next step in our adoption happen.  We are around $2700 dollars short.  God Bless to everyone

Immigaration Here We Come

Thank God our home study is done! On Thursday of this week we mailed out our application to immigration. We have completed one step on our journey and beginning another.  Wow this process has already been full of ups, downs, stop, and goes.  Our hearts are so thankful that our heavenly father has been with us every step of the way.  It seems at every turn our faith has been tested by trusting in God and not ourselves.  I have some exciting news to tell everyone.  our next fundraiser has been scheduled on October 29th we are having an all you can eat pancake breakfasts.  Please tell your friends or anyone you know how this will help bring our little girl home. 

Results

Our total from the consignment sale is around $300.00.  We sold  close to 250 items of our 640.   I am happy to say that we also blessed Goodwill with the remiaing items which will in turn bless other families.  All together it was not a bad day.  God truly blessed us! 

Consignment sale

Today was our first fundraiser at Shine Again Consignment sale.  We ended up having 640 items!  I have not received a final total as of yet, but we only took home about half of our items.  Barb and Monica invited us to set up a booth to sell beverages, chocolate, and our t-shirts.  Yes our T-shirts have arrived and look very nice.  We made $130.00 from sale of the booth and donations from many generous people.   Today was a true blessing to our family.

Wow has time flown by with all three boys in school and soccer.  I am so thankful for the overwhelming blessings God has given to us through our friends and family.  Thank you to everyone who has been supporting us through prayer, clothing for the consignment sale, financially, and being a shoulder to support us through some storms that have come our way.  We are currently waiting for our home study agency to finish all the necessary paper work to complete our home study!  I am excited to start a new chapter in this long process.  Here are some fundraising updates:  consignment sale is two weekends away!  We currently have 530 items, but could use more.  We are starting the process of having our t-shirts printed and they will hopefully be available in two to three weeks!    I am working on a night out for the family wth comedy sportz!  If you have any ideas please send them our way.  We have a long way to go to reach our goal.