We had our first fundraiser in August! God was so gracious and blessed my family. Our friends, family, and church family really went above and beyond and made our sale a huge success. We were blessed with so many item donations. So many of our friends and family dedicated countless hours to help set up, run the sale, and tear down. I was blessed to tears on numerous occasions at the love and generosity of God's people. He did huge things that week and brought in $4,000!

The sale allowed us make our first payment towards the adoption! One step closer to our daughter!

We are now preparing for our home study and putting together our dossier... and our second payment, which is due in March.

We stand firm on God's promise that He provides for our needs. He has called Matt and I to adoption, so while we see HUGE mountains in our path, God sees needs that He will meet.

Our next fundraiser is this weekend. An amazingly sweet photographer friend has sacrificed her entire weekend for a mini photo session for friends and family. Every cent goes towards our adoption! A huge thank you to Chrissy for volunteering her weekend and to all the friends who signed up!

My mom has been a major support and help. She has planned a couple fundraisers coming up soon. She came up with a turkey dinner raffle! We will be selling tickets to raffle off an entire Thanksgiving dinner, that we will make and deliver on Thanksgiving. The only catch is that we will only deliver within a 20 mile radius. So if you are local and don't want the hassle of making Thanksgiving dinner, then you should definitely purchase a couple tickets for your chance to win! It's going to be delicious!

My mom is also heading up a Cookie/Craft Walk the first Saturday in December. She has some amazing ideas for goodies and crafts. We'll be super busy gettin' our craft on really soon. You can get involved in this fundraiser by either volunteering your time to help us craft, donating homemade cookies and candy, or stopping by the sale on December 5th.