seeing a light at the end of the peanut butter balls!

It's been a long peanut butter kind of weekend! :0)

I have spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday making 118 dozen buckeyes with the help of Alya, Kacie, Shaun and Samantha. We have a requested buckeye total of 131 dozen ... so close to being done! And the cut off date isn't until Tuesday. I noticed that while making the buckeyes that my ingredients were going a lot farther than I had anticipated. So, now I get to RETURN ingredients to get money back. I had originally estimated that we would only get a little over one dollar in profit from making/selling the buckeys ..... BUT!!! .... I think that we spent about $184.23 for all of the supplies which leaves us with $470.77 to add to our adoption fund! I stand in awe everyday to see how God is at work through this. We now have the money to send in our application. We are leaving for Ohio this Friday, so I don't know if I will get to send in the application before Christmas or not. I might bring all the information with me and send it out up there. We'll see what happens ... I am so eager to get it in the mail soon. I just feel like mailing that application is really the start to the next step in our adoption journey. Oh how I miss having a little baby in the house. I can't wait to receive such a precious gift again! I can't wait to tell our little baby how many amazing people and things God used to bring them into our lives. :0)

Buckeye Madness!!!

So my best friend Kacie came up with another amazing fundraiser idea ... and I will have to admit I wasn't very confident in the idea that people would want to actually buy them. But boy was I WRONG!!!! Holy Cow! Seriously we have only been selling them for TWO, count them TWO DAYS and we already have over 76 dozen to make! That is over 912 buckeyes to make. How crazy is that!?! We were going to have a Buckeye Making party on Wednesday night ... but I guess I will be having a Buckeye making party allll weekend! HA! :0)

I just really can't get over how many people are partnering in on this journey with us. We now have a total of $1232.75 pledged for our adoption fund now! Both Alya and I just feel so blessed to be on this current adventure in our lives. I just really can't wait to bring a little baby home to share with all of these amazing friends and family that helped bring them home.

I went to an adoption ministry get together this past weekend and I met a woman who is good friends with the woman who started the adoption agency we are going to go wtih. She has known her for the last 12 years ... and I was just so excited to yet again find someone else that had a relationship with this agency. I am so excited to start working with them ... and I feel like that day is coming near! We are hoping to send in our application either just before or just after Christmas. I had FSS fax a copy of our homestudy to the adoption agency to see if it would be approved or not. If not then it will cost us and additional $1,300. So we are really praying that it is approved. It's funny at how much peace I feel about this process. I feel a little overwhelmed at times when I catch myself thinking about how the cost seems so impossible ... but then I just remind myself that it's all in God's hands and I don't have one single thing to worry about! I am so excited to see how HE is going to work in all of this. I am aching to hold my little baby in my arms ... I can't wait for that miracle. <3

investigations...

So one of my Facebook friends gave me the idea to look into making our adoption fund a non-profit organization. hmmm ... I think that would be awesome if it could work out. Having my mom help me out in that area because all the IRS lingo on the site goes waaaaay over my head! Hoping something could work out with that though, because it would be nice for our friends and family that are supporting us to be able to get that money back. There will definately be some investigations going on in that department. Never hurts to check things out ... on another note we received another $23.23 today from one of my students at school. God is so good! :0)