Slowly but Surely

Praise the Lord for His goodness!
As we are preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving, we are overwhelmed with God's goodness to our family.  Thank you for being a part of that blessing through your encouragement, support, and prayers!

We turned in a slew of recycleables and added $70 to our adoption fund.  Thank you!  We are still collecting them and are happy to pick them up from your house if you'd like to donate.

Our fingerprinting is complete, although it depleted quite a bit of our adoption fund.  We are thankful to have the money on hand through God's provision!  DMV provided all our necessary paperwork and we are scheduled to take our CPR class in December (for free through a friend of a friend!).  We still need to take a First Aid class, however, so if you have any connections or information please let us know!

Ben and I are planning another fundraiser - a Family Game Night and Silent Auction in February.  Check back for more information with details sometime in the next few weeks!

Thank you for your prayers.  Please join us in asking our gracious Heavenly Father to protect our birthmother and unborn child...

Hoop Jumping

Digging into more paperwork and checking as many boxes as we can!  We have scheduled our fingerprinting appointments and made an appointment at DMV to get some paperwork we need.  Our doctors have graciously filled out our physical forms and even included positive comments about our adoption.  We may have even found a friend of a friend willing to teach us a CPR class for free!  So exciting to see how the Lord provides!!!

We are also trying to gear up for another round of fundraising.  Pray for us as we coordinate a silent auction, family dinner, and family game night (not sure if we'll do all three...still working it out).  Keep checking back for more information/dates soon!

Thank you to those of you who have donated recyclables.  Amazing how quickly those add up!  We're cashing them in this week so we'll let you know our new adoption fund count soon!  We are happy to come pick up any more bottles or cans you may have.  This part of our fund raising will continue until we reach our goal!

Thank you also for those of you who have contacted us about having family portraits taken through Cain Photography.  100% of our income through the photography business goes towards our adoption fund.  Please check out the website and contact us to schedule a portrait session!  www.cainphotography.blogspot.com

Praise the Lord for His goodness, grace, and provision.  We are so excited to see Him glorify Himself through our journey.