Fundraising!

As most of you are aware, we are soooo close to going to China to get Hudson! We are so excited and scared at the same time. We can not wait to end the adoption journey and to begin our new life with our new son. The end of this journey is just the beginning of another. We are so excited about that! We are a little scared with where the remaining funds are going to come from, the flight and leaving our two oldest children back home, being in another country and all the unknowns. We know that the Lord has His hand on this and He will see this through and that does bring us comfort, but its so hard not to worry. 

Last weekend we decided kind of last minute to throw together a rummage sale. We have SO much stuff to sell and defiantly need to continue to empty what was a storage room to be Hudsons bedroom. So we had a sale Friday and Saturday last week, along with Averies lemonade stand. It was a big success! My goal was $50-100 total, we didn't advertise other than FB and we are not on a busy street. Well, we raised right at $600! WOW! Averies lemonade stand (that had cake pops 1 day and donuts the next) raised $64, she was so excited! 

So we are going at it again this weekend. We don't expect as big of a weekend as we know some people don't visit the same sale 2 weekends in a row. But, this was our original planned weekend. We will have it Thurs, Fri and Sat, along with Averies lemonade stand. I think this weekend will be cookies and brownies along with lemonade and water. 

We also have a NEW fundraiser! We have Mattoon/Charleston discount cards available! They have 24 businesses on them, many who are not on any other sort of discount card. We thank each and every business! These will be for sale at our rummage sale, we will also be set up at Bagel Fest and friends and family members will have them at church and to sell! We have a Facebook page set up designated to these cards, if you are interested in a card or to sell cards, feel free to go to our Fb page and contact us. We think these are very good cards and a great value at only $15. We get 100% of the money from each card, it all goes directly towards our adoption expenses! So this is a MAJOR fundraiser for us! We have a goal of 1,000 being sold, this would take us very close to where we need to be within the next couple of weeks! 

Thank you everyone for your support. Please continue to pray for us and Hudson. We are in the home stretch of completing this adoption! Please pray for the cards to be a success and an answer to where the remaining funds will come from, pray for our travel worries, pray for our children and family we leave behind while traveling to China, pray for Hudson as we prepare to meet him and bring him into the family, pray for the other waiting children and families. 

Here is a link to our FB page for more information about the discount cards: 

https://www.facebook.com/events/174056466107359/