Fundraiser Success!!!!!

At last!I am making a mad dash to update this poor pathetic blog.To say I have been busy in the last eight weeks, would be a gross understatement.  Insane would be the only way to truly describe how things have been around here.

How did our garage sale fundraiser go, you ask?  It went well, and exceeded our expectations. No, we don't have near the money we need to complete her adoption, but every little bit helps. 

Forecast for the two days was severe rain. Friday ended up being a near perfect day and the rain started to pour down on us just as we were putting things away.  Saturday morning was rainy early on before we started the fundraiser, and we have 2 1/2 hours of beautiful sun before the torrential rains came again. We moved everything in the garage and kept going. God's infinite grace has contiually plays a role in our journey.

What is continually amazing to me is those who give of themselves so freely to support us, and help us with this arduous task.  The good Lord is in all the details and has touched so many people. We have felt and seen goodness beyond description. Our lives are changed forever.Jeff and I have vowed to be a stalwart when it comes to service and helping others. Whether or not it is convenient for us will never be an issue, we know of the blessings of serving others, and others serving us. I do not believe you can truly understand charity at its finest unless you give it and allow others to serve you to receive it.  To accept service does not mean you are weak, it means that you fully understand the pure love of our Savior Jesus Christ. I urge anyone has not served and especially allowed others to serve them, to engage in this beautiful metaphor of giving and receiving. It is truly phenomenal.Below is a small slideshow of all the peopl who either came and supported us by buying something, or came and helped. 

We were overwhelmed by how many people donated items for the garage sale.  We had a 14 or 15 tables  full of items to sell. Now you all now I pride myself in being very organize as it is the trade that I work in, these skills were greatly put to the test in organizing this fundraiser. Now done it and very successfully pulled it off.  One more large task to check offo of my list.

Special thanks go to: Teri, Trudy, & Vanessa, who manned the tables Friday morning as it was necessary for Jeff and I to head down to Salt Lake to obtain fingerprints for an adoption form (I-600A for those of you who know international adoption jargin) and if we canceled this randomly scheduled appointment, it could easily put us back a month or two. So we marched on the fundraiser starting at 11 AM. We were there by 10:30 AM and at least 30 people were already there shopping.  It's great to know that you have family and friends you can trust to represent in your behalf and are happy in doing so. 


We are indebted to all of you. We hope there are enough Sundays left this year to invite all those who gave of their time,talents or came to support and shop, for homemade ice cream at the Isom's on Sunday night.    Give us a call what Sunday you would like to come and we'll make it happen!