We have a really busy week coming up! We have two big fundraisers this week. Monday night we are partnering with a local pizza place called Vitale's Pizza! Everyone who comes in between 4-8pm and gives them our coupon will help us to receive 15% of the sales for the night! This is such a huge blessing. First their pizza is amazing, our family favorite, plus just allowing our community to support us simply by having pizza for dinner is huge. We are so grateful to Vitale's! They are also donating the prize for our other fundraiser. Saturday we are hosting a 5k at Pigeon Creek Park, which is right around the corner from our house. We so wanted to plan a fundraiser that allowed the whole family to come out and enjoy something together. We love Pigeon Creek Park and I love running so this was a perfect match. This winter I spent several months going back and forth between the insurance company and the park to figure out what we needed for insurance. What a headache, but we finally got what we needed for a minimal charge. So thankful it was minimal! We have awesome sponsors for the race, sweet goodie bags for the participants, and some amazing prizes!! We are so excited to have family and friends join us for this fundraiser. So far we have 45 participants!!!
We have been applying to grants, but haven't heard anything from them yet. We have our final agency fee's due very soon which is just over $3,000. Then to complete the adoption and travel we need about $20,000. YIKES! We are doing whatever we can to save and fundraise! We have zero doubt that God has called us to this adoption and we are praying He will make his way clear on the financial side of it all. We have add so many "crazy" things happen since we started this adoption and every time God has also showed up!
We got updated measurements on Oliver and he is pretty close to the same size Carson was at 3! He seems so much bigger in the pictures then Carson did at 3, but it is really hard to judge size from a picture. We also learned a few more medical challenges that Oliver is facing and we are praying God will allow us to see fully what is going on with our son. It is so hard to have him there and we are here and we can't do squat about anything we learn. I am so ready to bring him home and get answers here that we can actually use to move forward. Please be praying that God would give us patience and strength as we wait.
We have been swapping kids rooms. We painted the boy's rooms and Lillian is still waiting! Maybe once school is out! We have gotten lots of updated pictures and video's and we are so thankful for each of them. We have also gotten to know Oliver's buddies family! I am so amazed at how God has already woven our lives with another family. Would you please pray for this family? They have hit some major hurdles and they need God to show up in a mighty way. We are praying God will get all the glory for the adoption of these boys!
We'll we survived four soccer games this weekend in the cold weather. Yes it is May, but in Michigan so we had snow this morning and frigid temps this weekend. We hauled back out the hats, gloves, scarves, and winter jackets. Piled on the blankets and held tight to the umbrella's during the hail, but we loved every minute of it! I am so thankful to have boys running around who love sports and don't care what the weather is doing.
If you can't participate in either of the fundraiser's we have this week we are still selling puzzle pieces. We have this puzzle hung in a double glass frame and for $20 you can buy a piece. We will put your name on the back and it will serve as a reminder of all the people who loved our son before he was even home.
Or we still are accepting tax deductible donations through our adopt together site: https://www.adopttogether.org/oliver
Hopefully we will here from China this week that we are logged in!!!
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