Come Rejoice With Us!

First, take a quick look at our adoption meter.  Yes, that's right, we are ALMOST FULLY FUNDED!!  This year we got an amazing tax refund and we were able to put it towards the adoption!  We are so excited!  We have two last big fundraisers coming up, and those should be the last ones we need to do!  Praise God!! 

Our garage sale is April 20th and 21st and we have been blessed with many wonderful donations to sell.  We also have a Peter Piper Pizza fundraising event coming up.  With those two fundraisers, we hope to be completely funded. 

Rejoice with us!

God is amazing!

I have been hemming and hawing with this adoption paperwork.  All we need to do is finish our 4-10 page autobiographies and we are DONE with all of our paperwork to start the home study process.  I've been really bad about working on mine, though, because I needed to wait to find out if we would owe on taxes before I took the money out of savings to pay for the home study, and since I'm a procrastinator, in my mind, I had time.  I've been saying that it will be awesome if we don't owe, but amazing if we get enough back to cover the home study.  We don't have our final refund number yet, but looking at roughly what we will get we'll have enough for the home study, enough to put up the little retaining wall in our backyard so we can put in grass, and still have some left over for the next few chunks of adoption fees!!!  AH!!!  I was so excited I had to call my mom and tell her.  It is so reassuring and I feel like God is telling us, "Hey, you were stressed about $1,200, and look, I already had a plan for that, and then some, so stop that worrying already!"

Conner is quite the creative boy ;)