Garage Sale Success and Adoption Update!

Our good friends Cara and Dave opened their home and hearts to us by coordinating our Garage Sale Fundraiser. Both Cara and Dave posess such wonderful "gifts". "Gifts" that cannot even be described.

"When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends,

Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends."

~Helen Steiner Rice

Cara and Dave are the type of people that make you want to be a better person. Their encouragement, warmth, care, and compassion to serve doesn't even begin to describe them. Both inspire us to want to serve others and share God's gift of love. Their compassion for others is contagious.

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same." ~ Flavia Weedn

Thank You Dave and Cara for being you and for helping us bring our son FORVER HOME. We thank God for giving us such wonderful friends.

Here is our family...for now. (Cara made this wonderful sign for our sale.)

Here are the kids waiting for lemonade stand customers.


Here they are partaking in some of the treats themselves.




One view of our busy, busy sale. (Yeah)





The kiddos preparing some treats for their stand. Hubby's mom pictured with the girls helped prepare the treats.











Funny Story: The sale opened at 4 on Friday...To make a long story short people were visiting Cara at 1:00. Due the wounderful chaos of people, we didn't have time to unload everything. I had a van full of womens clothes that didn't get out in time. My car doors were open and many ladies decided to just hop in my car and shop. This was great....However, when I was ready to leave, my car was dead! Too funny! Mechanic Dave helped me out and got my car moving again.






Another view of all the fantastic donations.

Me and my Mommy!

Here are many of the ladies...and Mechanic Dave, who helped sort clothes, move tables, etc..etc... Thank You Thank You Ladies...and Dave!

Mechanic Dave making hot dogs for the crowd.

Our sale went so well....I actually surpassed my goal 5X. Wow!!!!!!!!

Thanks again to all of those who helped us; whether it was shopping at our sale, donating items, putting in some sweat equity, and those who prayed for us.

Our local caseworker informed us that we are still waiting on our DCFS Clearances. I'm being very patient...but hopefull that the process will get moving. I'm anxious to get on the waiting list. Once our clearances come through, we will have one more set of state approvals, and then waitlist here we come. WAAAHOOO!