Garage Sale Results!!!!!

Yesterday was our first official fundraiser for our adoption. Three weeks ago Robert & I looked at each other, our calender, and then this was the only weekend opened we could have it.

~In three weeks, donations poured in from our all of our family (biological and church).
~In three weeks, we filled a two car garage (and some overflow went into our sweet friend Shannon's living room).
~ My sister brought hot dogs & water to sell, stayed to sell, and helped so much... My parents stayed two days to help sell. Our dear friend Tiffany helped clean out the garage. Our dear friend Amy came to work the garage sale. Our friends came to support. Our friends Celeste and Grace made delicious baked goods to sell (those cake pops changed my life). Robert's brother and his girlfriend helped set up, clean up & helped to sell stuff too. (If I forgot someone I'm so sorry. We appreciate all of you)!!!

Cake pops changed my life...

The result: We sold $1,709.60.

We are amazed. God has blown us away. The crazy part? We still have a few big ticket items to sell on CraigsList (a top hutch, a complete hutch, a 4 person dinning room table + chairs, and an elliptical).

There are so many lessons here that we are learning. First, God is proving that this is His adoption. His money, His timing. Secondly, we are amazed by the support. Our family is so excited and so supportive. But, our church family is equally excited and supportive. All of our family has never been more precious to us. We see the face of God through your generosity & care for us. Words are so inadequate to describe how much we love all of you. Thank you for helping us bring out baby home.

Here is where we are now. The next step is to rest a few days... :) We are going to be selling t-shirts. We will begin to work on planning some other fundraisers (hopefully not all in three weeks time). And in the fall we will have another garage sale (so keep that in the back of your mind).

As for the adoption process, we are now finishing up some of the homestudy paperwork. We still have to be interviewed, but as soon as that goes through we are ready. One of two things will happen. 1) We will be matched with a birthmother who is still pregnant. 2) We will be immediately placed with a baby who has already been born. We will let you know more as we know more. :)

We love you all so very much!