Successful Yardsale #2!

We had another long weekend of yard sale madness... and it was a lot of fun! We are so, so thankful for the friends and family that worked SO hard to pull this off. There were so many donations and some dear friends spent Friday night and Saturday morning working hard to price, organize and sell to bring home our baby.

After having such an amazing yard sale in Alabama (read about that here), we really didn't want to set high expectations for this one. If we were going to let ourselves dream big, then we thought we might make around $300-500, but what we NEED is about $800 to for the US CIS/ I600 A form that we are about to have to send off. But really, $800 is a lot of money to make at a yard sale, so let's not get our hopes up, right??

Here is the setup:



Endless thank-yous to some precious friends:
Mary Anne & Steve Strothmann, for hosting the yard sale; Heather Fleming for the donations and many hours organizing and selling (she was there Friday and Saturday!!), Haley & Micah Messersmith for the donations and many hours spent helping- even with a 6 month old in tow, Robin Purdy, Katie Stringfellow & David Talbert (you know we love you!), and the many people who donated goods for the sale:

Catherine Robinson, Allison & Bobby Herrington, The Strothmanns, Daniel Wood, Brian Sanders, Brett & Katherine Sanders, Willis & Carol Baker, Laura, Adam & Jeannie Smith, Kurt, Grace Anne Edwards, Jonathan Edwards, Craig & Danielle Eggleton, Sara & Jay Mosser, Stephanie & Aaron Coalson... (and if I missed someone, leave a comment so that I can put it in the blog book). Thank you soooo much!

Now, I know this is getting lengthy and you're ready for the grand total, right?? Well, hold on to your hats. You know how we were HOPING for a couple hundred?? Well... we were BLOWN away when we added up everything. Ready for it??

$1,736.65

Can you believe it? Well, of course, God is way more faithful than we can imagine, and he is 100% providing for this baby. Thank you Lord for providing exceedingly more than we can ask or imagine! We have the money to send off the I-600A and a good start on saving for the referral/travel. Praise God!

And while we are so thankful for the amazing turnout and for the tremendous financial blessing, there is more good news! There was a crammed car, truck & extras to be used in another family's adoption yard sale! Some newly acquainted friends of ours are adopting from Rwanda, and they will have yard sales this fall to help with their fundraising. I'm so glad to be rid of this junk yet so thankful that God will continue to use one man's trash to bring treasure as we get our babies :)

The Allisons' car packed full!
Thanks so much for your prayers, donations and financial gifts this weekend, and to all those that came by and bought things, or even brought us donuts or biscuits. We feel so loved on by our community and so thankful to be where we are.