New Updates!

Ok, so I have been so busy that I have not taken the time to give any updates. Here's what's been happening over the last several weeks:

WE HAD ANOTHER YARD SALE! :) The last one of the season and it was a big success for the time we got to sell before it started raining. Ughhh! God was good, however, and blessed us with so many donations and lots of people to buy up lots of our treasures!

WE FINISHED ANOTHER ALONGSIDE FUNDRAISING EVENT! For our second alongside fundraising event we held a Photos in the Park event over the course of two weekends. It was a massive success and I will share more details on this one in a separate post.

WE ARE WORKING ON OUR NEXT FUNDRAISER, THE CALVARY BAZAAR. We are super excited to continue on this adoption journey doing what God leads us to do. He has been so good to bless our labors and we continue to "use what we know" as He told us to. We are hard at work refinishing lots of new furniture pieces that I have been gathering that were both donated by generous friends and even past patrons as well as pieces picked up on craigslist, facebook swap sites, and at yard sales. The garage is packed and all of us are doing our part to get all the awesome pieces finished and ready.

WE ARE PREPPING FOR OUR NEXT ALONGSIDE FUNDRAISING EVENT! With our Photos in the Park event finished, Isaac and I are already in the early planning stages of the next big event we will be hosting for Heart For the Fatherless. I absolutely cherish this ministry and am so grateful that God plugged us in here! We are hoping to do a Night of Wishes as our next event in which we will be launching a few hundred Chinese lanterns, that people have inscribed with their wish, near the Chinese New Year. We are super excited about this event and hope that it is yet another way we can support other local adopting families as well as bring awareness to the community of the many children that need families and how they can help even if they are not called to adopt themselves.

I will post more details in a separate blog entry about where we are in the adoption process. Thank you all for your continued support; we are so grateful for how our family and friends continue to rally around us as we prepare for the addition of two little girls into our family! :)