BLESSINGS INDEED!!

So if you read this blog at all you know what we are up to. Well the weekend of the Tastefully Simple Party we received gifts that allowed us to pay for our next level payment to Bethany Christian Services (BCS). This was a huge blessing this meant that we didn't have to use our saving yet. Well we have continued fund raising.... and after todays BBQ/Raffle/T-shirt sale we made almost exactly what we need to complete our home study. HUGE HUGE blessing!! We were able to use what we had in savings to buy what was needed as far as supplies so again HUGE blessing!! 1 more HUGE blessing. I was confused about the payment schedule. I thought we would have to pay the $5,000 for the profile in early November BUT we don't! Its not actually due until early December. That may not seem like a blessing to some but its HUGE in our book. That means we will have 1 whole extra month to gather funds. So far we have been VERY VERY blessed and I am trusting that God will provide the rest.

So here is the prayer... That God would continue to bless this situation... and that we would have the $5,000 by early December.

Sadly in all the craziness I totally forgot to get a picture of the days events! Sorry! Just ~imagine~ a good turn out! lol Oh and we sold out of chicken in about an hour!! Woot woot!!

Walking on Water

So we have all heard "if you want to walk on water you have to get out of the boat" BUT my thought is that it comes one step before that. Walking on water THAT is a miracle! Just SEEING a miracle would be enough to inspire people to make a difference. Sadly, I think we just sit on the beach and forget that God is out there doing miracles. So my challenge is this ... GET OFF THE SHORE!! Climb into a boat and go see what is happening! People's lives are being changed by the God of the Universe and you could be apart of it~ Just a thought!!

From here....

We are done with our physicals and although a few conversations have come up about my RA, it looks like we will be moving forward. We finished all our background check paper work and will be mailing that in soon. Dave and I both wrote our autobiography, which was actually kinda fun. We had our fingerprinting done. So we have gone down the check list and our social worker(SW) is pleased at how fast we are moving things along. So Oct 14th we head back to Rochester for another long meeting, where Dave and I will be interviewed on our own (kinda nervous)! Then early Nov. our SW will come here to interview Jaxon and Bethany. At which time we will have to give her a check for $1,300. Praise the Heavens we have that money. The next step is turning in our profile and in order to do that we have to give them $5, 000 and thats money we don't have. So I am on my knees! We are selling shirts doing a BBQ and thinking of every possible option but this week on the phone with the SW (who I love) she very kindly told me that her boss was looking over our paper work and noticed that we don't have the money to do the placement fee (when we get the baby $13,000). She told me that if it was her call that she would just give us a baby but thats not how the system works and that they will need to know where exactly the money is coming from. I called Dave crying because the truth is I don't really know......... God I guess would be the right answer. I just can't stand the idea that a birthmother could pick us but if we don't have the $$$ then we can't have that baby. There is something SO SO SO wrong with that. UGH! Anyway so again I am going to call on the God of the Universe who knows me by name.... who knows this baby by name.... and I am going to plead with Him that He would soften the hearts of people so that they would know how much HE loves the fatherless, so that they would understand that this is not about us anymore....this isn't about the fun of a new baby... This is our family being obedient to the God who loves us.