We feel blessed...and still patiently waiting!!

We feel so blessed!!!  The Chili's Fundraiser night was fabulous.  There were 27 families that participated and we had so much fun visiting with everyone.  The funny thing was that from the hours of 4:30 pm - 10:00 pm, I counted only 6 families in the dining area that were not with our group of supporters.  We feel blessed to be loved and supported by so many people.  Within two weeks, Chili's Corporation will let us know officially how much money we raised.  Many people that attended requested that we do this again.  Also, the management staff at Chili's invited us to do this again.  We will let you know if we decide to do another Chili's night!  Thank you for everyone that took time out of their busy schedules to come eat at Chili's and support our fundraiser. 

Our next adoption Fundraiser will be Feb. 9th from 6 - 8pm at our home.  We will be having a Thirty-one party.  10% of sales will go to our adoption fund.  If you are not able to attend, we are accepting catalog orders.  Thirty-one just came out with their new 2012 Spring catalog and February is the first chance to order these new products and patterns.  Please let me know (karlamtaylor@hotmail.com) if you would like more information or would like to place an order!

We did have two blessings over the last week.  Two precious families donated a total of $300 to our adoption fund!!!  We are truly grateful.

Update on our adoption process:
1.  We are in the final days of having our home study report finished.
2.  We were approved by our adoption agency and sent in our Special Needs Application.
3.  We are patiently waiting on our agency for some feedback.  At this time, our adoption attorney is in contract negotiations with the agency.  We pray that our agency will get back with us promptly and with news we desire to hear!

Please continue to pray for our contract negotiations to go well and our adoption fundraisers to be a success!  God has GREATLY blessed us in the area of donations and fundraising success.  We are close to being half way to our goal.  God is so good!