Yard Sale # 1,567,999

So yard sales are a great fundraiser ... they bring in decent money usually, and there's no money involved which = free and one happy adoptive momma. However, yard sales are A LOT of work! Especially the type of yard sales the Cotton's have. We had another round of donations to sort through (thank you, thank you!) and a glorious AIR CONDITIONED building to have another yard sale in. We are so super blessed to have great friends help us with the set up, all day sale, AND clean up. We've had to do some of our other yard sales all by ourselves, and it's super hard work! I feel so bad for my hubby having to lift all those heavy items by himself. So I was super thankful for another strong guy to help him last weekend. Along with all the donations we also did a little raffle ... an awesome friend of ours made a necklace, we also had gift cards for a pedicure and a dinner at a local restaurant were the items that we raffled off. And get this ... the SAME woman won all THREE raffles and we even had a different kid pick the ticket from each bucket. So, so weird! But I am really glad that she won the prizes ... we just met her that day, but she shared with us that her and her husband had tried to adopt and it fell through. Broke my heart ... and can totally relate ... so I'm glad that she got to win something from our special fundraiser for Josiah :0) Unfortunately our little town decided that having yard sale signs displayed was not okay and they took them all down. :0( So we didn't have customers past 1:00 ... major boo! We were still able to raise $373.93 plus a sweet friend gave us a $100 check later that evening. So we packed it all up and came back home. Here are a few pics of the day ...


Here we go again ... packing up the car!


Alya tying down the trailer with tarps because it decided to RAIN!


Where's Josiah??


Oh there he is! Fast asleep :0)


Here's the room with tons and tons of items for sale!





Josiah was so amazing! We are so blessed to have such a good baby.



We are planning on having another yard sale this Saturday to try and sell more of the items that we have ... (because there are still tons!) Hoping for a great day of raising money for our sweet boys adoption!