Home Study Update

Just wanted to give an update on where we are with the Home Study. 

We are still pulling together the last bit of the information that needs to be included on the Home Study application. We shouldn't have any issues getting it out this week. 

Other than that, nothing much has changed. We did have a chance to update the fundraising progress charts. As you will see... If it were a pizza, we would have a good, hefty slice of pepperoni and cheese! ;) 

Thanks again for your contributions...everything helps!

Also, once we get a few weeks into the Home Study we will be sending out information on our next fundraiser.

Yard Sale Experts! hardly...

Hey Everyone,

WE DID IT! Thank you to everyone who contributed items to the yard sale. The yard sale was a great success. We will be submitting our "initial" Home Study application this week.

Since we really were bad about creating any posts last week I'll play a little catch up...

Joshlyn and I began putting up signs around the neighborhood last Monday, as well as, posting a few advertisements online. By Friday afternoon our house and carport were packed with all sorts of different items that people had been dropping off all week. Around 5:00pm Friday, we even had a few early, early bird yard salers come by to check out what we were selling.  After pricing, and organizing everything as much as possible, we got to bed around 10:00pm. We were back up around 4:00am. (so much fun! Ha!) Personally, I didn't think Joshlyn had it in her to wake up by 4am, but she proved me wrong. We were up hustling tables and things out into to the front yard by 4:15am only to be finishing up just as the first car pulled up around 5:00am. The sun wasn't even up yet, and people were showing up with flash lights...I think someone should make a reality tv show about yard salers.-I would watch it.

To make a long story short, we kept the sale open until around 12:30pm, and began putting away everything. The final total for the sale was $685 + ($500 contributions). Prior to the yard sale we had $850 in contributions in the adoption fund. So with all the contributions, and Saturday's earnings we have a grand total of $2035.

The initial home study was $1750 so we should have a few hundred dollars left over to put towards future adoption expenses. We will be sure update the fundraising progress tab ASAP.


We did have a few items left over. So we will be trying to sell those items either online or in a future yard sale. All money made will go directly to the adoption fund. Whatever we have left over will then be donated to Goodwill.

God has truly blessed us to bring all of you into our lives. Thank you so much for all of your support.

We will post another update as soon as we get the Home Study application submitted.

Last Week before the Yard Sale

Hello everyone! Thanks for the wonderful responses to our yard sale so far. If any of you would still like to donate items please feel free to contact David or me. We will be collecting items up until the last minute. So if there is anything hanging around your house or hiding in the back of your closets that you have been meaning to get rid of we will gladly take it off your hands! This is what I worked on today.

We will be putting these up tomorrow after church. I have made several other "back-ups" in case our first get rained on early in the week. We are so excited! Thanks again for your support!

Yard sale update and upcoming t-shirts

Just want to let everyone know that everything is falling into place for the Yard Sale.

Joshlyn and I will be spending the next week consolidating all the items that we currently have, as well as, the things that friends and family have already dropped off with us.

I am planning to make my rounds with a trailer on Friday, August 17. I can make a special trip to Montgomery if needed. So please contact me if you would like to donate anything. (if you have small things just let me know, and I can get those items on one of my daily work trips).

We truly appreciate all of your contributions.
We are truly blessed to have all of you in our lives.

Hopefully, we will surpass our next goal of raising money for the home study, and allocate any excess towards the rest of the adoption process. We will be sure to keep you posted.

Also, "adoption t-shirt fundraiser" soon to come!!! I should have that info out in about a week. I am currently working on quotes and stuff like that.