OH MY GOODNESS!!!! Today, we have -as usual- been busy little beavers trying to get ready for Ethan, the garage sale, and seeing if we have things that we need for Ethan for his trip. I have had many wonderful interruptions....a most wonderful visitor, chocolate & a friend's help, more blocks made by a friend for Ethan's quilt but the BEST interruption of the day included the most incredible news....from one of my dearest friends. I have prayed for this family, prayed WITH this mother, wept WITH and for them, begged for prayers from friends and have told their story to MANY of you! Well, tonight my friend texted me to let me know that all of our prayers were answered MIRACULOUSLY!!! ETHAN # 2 is theirs!!!!! Nope, not OUR Ethan but Shannon's Ethan!!!! It brought me to my knees in our Ally & Ethan's room...i was on the floor....in tears as she told me! AMAZING!!!! AMAZING!!!! AMAZING!!!
I said, "How could this day get any better!?!" I went to FB & wrote a post about the incredible miracle & quickly checked my Fb seeing that people had contacted me about some things for the garage sale & also saw that TWO friends had put our blog on stating our need for Ethan's grant up! I thanked them both and was going to go back to "work" on our stuff HOPING to get something DONE! THEN, i thought that i should check our blog. I then YELLED to the girls....OH MY WORD!!!! SOMEONE GAVE A LOT OF MONEY!!!! I went for my pen and paper...no calculator for me....and found that we had been given $415!!!! That means all we need is to have a great garage sale and we should be able to cover the rest of the expenses for this last trip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES, THIS DAY COULD GET BETTER!!!!! AND IT DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will you PLEASE praise the Lord with us!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Oh my word! How blessed we are!!! We are ALWAYS BLESSED!!! Connie for the crew!!!!
PS....now to try to get some work done:)
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
NOW, i will tell you WHY!
The Lord continues to amaze me. He grows my faith over and over again! I fail to believe and trust over and over again!
Tonight, there were tears once again as i have come to let you know that we will be able to take care of our adoption if our garage sale is what we are expecting and we have another $405. Yes, you read that right. You read that correctly. $405 is all we need (plus our garage sale) to be FULLY FUNDED!!!
The tears flowed freely as i called our Lizzie to let her know what the rest of us heard! We are in awe of the people who have given and we are ALWAYS BLESSED!!!! Connie for the crew
Tonight, there were tears once again as i have come to let you know that we will be able to take care of our adoption if our garage sale is what we are expecting and we have another $405. Yes, you read that right. You read that correctly. $405 is all we need (plus our garage sale) to be FULLY FUNDED!!!
The tears flowed freely as i called our Lizzie to let her know what the rest of us heard! We are in awe of the people who have given and we are ALWAYS BLESSED!!!! Connie for the crew
GOD AMAZES ME AGAIN!!!!
Today has been one of my most overwhelming days...yet GOD!!! Just as i was freaking out...a dear friend came to the rescue & said that she has friends that she would try to contact to help us and THEN............
Sophina has a Cheerios book that Ally was playing with her during her supper. OK...back up....this morning our therapist tried once again to have Sophina just TRY to have her TOUCH the PufF cereal to her tongue REALLY fast but try again as she might...Sophina just wouldn't have it. Realize that we have been trying this for MONTHS and MONTHS!!! Back to the story.....
Ally was feeding Sophina while i was going through Ethan's clothes. Sophina finished eating and then Ally tried sneaking in a cheerio AND GOT IT!!! Sophina kept it in her mouth!!!!!! Ally tried again and got it but Sophina spit it out....again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, and then yet AGAIN and finally she kept it in her mouth for a long time because Lizzie had come over, Mommy was there now and people were excited. She of course, then spit it out but people THIS IS GINORMOUS!!!!!! BUT THAT IS NOT ALL!!!!
My hubby made me cry a few minutes ago. He called at 6:30pm....THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN...he rarely calls before 7:30!!! It was loud where he was at and i couldn't understand him. He said, "Hi" and he hemmed and hahed and i couldn't understand what in the world was going on. He then told me that all of his co-workers surprised him today with a surprise party with lots of food! Well, knowing that food is rare there...i knew that this made his day but to tell you the truth i still couldn't understand why he would be calling me in the middle of it. After a few minutes, he let me know WHY he called. He called to let me know that his co-workers had been planning this for a month!!! They were giving him a party for our son Ethan and our adoption! (i am crying again) What a BLESSING!!!! WHAT A NEEDED UPPER of granting me HOPE and ENCOURAGEMENT!!!! OH how the Lord KNEW that TODAY...THIS DAY was a day when i needed to HEAR this!!! OH HOW GOOD THE LORD IS and how BLESSED we are that my husband has a JOB!!!! A job where the people LOVE him!!! THANK YOU GOD!!! Thank you to the men and women at Scott Lindquist's work....i am so so grateful!
Sophina has a Cheerios book that Ally was playing with her during her supper. OK...back up....this morning our therapist tried once again to have Sophina just TRY to have her TOUCH the PufF cereal to her tongue REALLY fast but try again as she might...Sophina just wouldn't have it. Realize that we have been trying this for MONTHS and MONTHS!!! Back to the story.....
Ally was feeding Sophina while i was going through Ethan's clothes. Sophina finished eating and then Ally tried sneaking in a cheerio AND GOT IT!!! Sophina kept it in her mouth!!!!!! Ally tried again and got it but Sophina spit it out....again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, and then yet AGAIN and finally she kept it in her mouth for a long time because Lizzie had come over, Mommy was there now and people were excited. She of course, then spit it out but people THIS IS GINORMOUS!!!!!! BUT THAT IS NOT ALL!!!!
My hubby made me cry a few minutes ago. He called at 6:30pm....THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN...he rarely calls before 7:30!!! It was loud where he was at and i couldn't understand him. He said, "Hi" and he hemmed and hahed and i couldn't understand what in the world was going on. He then told me that all of his co-workers surprised him today with a surprise party with lots of food! Well, knowing that food is rare there...i knew that this made his day but to tell you the truth i still couldn't understand why he would be calling me in the middle of it. After a few minutes, he let me know WHY he called. He called to let me know that his co-workers had been planning this for a month!!! They were giving him a party for our son Ethan and our adoption! (i am crying again) What a BLESSING!!!! WHAT A NEEDED UPPER of granting me HOPE and ENCOURAGEMENT!!!! OH how the Lord KNEW that TODAY...THIS DAY was a day when i needed to HEAR this!!! OH HOW GOOD THE LORD IS and how BLESSED we are that my husband has a JOB!!!! A job where the people LOVE him!!! THANK YOU GOD!!! Thank you to the men and women at Scott Lindquist's work....i am so so grateful!
ANOTHER UPDATE
Today has been CRAZY!!!! We are trying to raise our final funds PLUS get ready for our garage sale NEXT WEEKEND. PLUS, working on Ethan's QUEEN size quilt-our LONG TIME standing fund raiser that ended this week. PLUS, prepare for Ethan's coming. Today...has been VERY overwhelming!
I am stopping to let you all know that we are still in need of $2400 yet PLUS we are praying that we raise $1000 for our garage sale so we can cover our final needed funds for this adoption! These two things together SHOULD cover our last needed funds.
PLEASE...will you PRAY....for our family-INCLUDING ETHAN ;), for our finances, for our trip-both ways, for the transition, for our garage sale!!!!, and for anything else that you know we will need prayer for!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE SO FAR!!!!
ALWAYS BLESSED, Connie for the crew!
I am stopping to let you all know that we are still in need of $2400 yet PLUS we are praying that we raise $1000 for our garage sale so we can cover our final needed funds for this adoption! These two things together SHOULD cover our last needed funds.
PLEASE...will you PRAY....for our family-INCLUDING ETHAN ;), for our finances, for our trip-both ways, for the transition, for our garage sale!!!!, and for anything else that you know we will need prayer for!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE SO FAR!!!!
ALWAYS BLESSED, Connie for the crew!
Monday, April 9, 2012
Confirmed!
We have been confirmed that we will be leaving America on May 4th and coming home on May 12th!!!
We are totally thrilled!!! This means that we leave in TWENTY-FIVE DAYS!!! WOW!!! SO much to do!
We will be landing at 7pm....the day before Mother's Day! We cannot wait to see you all!
In other news, Jessica and Wes had court today!!! Danny is no longer an orphan!!! His name was changed today....his name is Colton Daniel! Praise the Lord with me!!!
Two boys who were orphans are now SONS!!!
ALWAYS BLESSED! Connie for the crew
We are totally thrilled!!! This means that we leave in TWENTY-FIVE DAYS!!! WOW!!! SO much to do!
We will be landing at 7pm....the day before Mother's Day! We cannot wait to see you all!
In other news, Jessica and Wes had court today!!! Danny is no longer an orphan!!! His name was changed today....his name is Colton Daniel! Praise the Lord with me!!!
Two boys who were orphans are now SONS!!!
ALWAYS BLESSED! Connie for the crew
Friday, April 6, 2012
WE HAVE OUR DATES
We will be going to Ethan's country...leaving the weekend of May 5th and coming back the weekend of MOTHER's DAY!!!!!!
Connie for the crew (Ethan's Mommy)
Connie for the crew (Ethan's Mommy)
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
UPDATE
Right now, we are thinking that we will be given our second trip dates at the end of the week! We can't wait to see when we will be bringing our Ethan HOME!!! We are trying to bring in the last of the money that is needed by having a VERY spontaneous garage sale NEXT WEEKEND...the weekend after Easter. The girls said that if that weekend is when we are supposed to go get Ethan then they will do the garage sale! HA! I know that there would be people who would help as that would DEFINITELY be a reason for joy! Otherwise, we would scrap it for another time.
This means that we are at the end of Ethan's grant fund raising. Ethan has $806 in his grant yet (remember that they don't show what has been used for other needs...our first trip, dossier costs were taken out so it is NOT what it says on our grant...that is the TOTAL that has been raised since Ethan was put onto MY FAMILY FOUND ME). We have found out an ESTIMATE of our costs for the airplane tickets...it is around $3300 for the three of us. We also will be needing to stay in the capitol this time and that is MUCH higher in costs for food and hotel than where we were at in Ethan's city before.
We are trying to raise the money with the garage sale-so a LOCAL way of help being brought in, we also have another LOCAL fund raiser that we are starting in full force and that is PAPA MURPHY's Coupon Cards that have coupons for a 1 topping pizza for $7.99-Med.Lg or Family size/ a 3 topping pizza for $9.99-Med, Lg. or Family size/ Any stuffed pizza for $10.99-Lg or Family size/ Any TWO family size pizzas coupon for $6 off any regular priced pizza/ A free cheesy bread or cookie dough w/a purchase of any regular priced pizza/ Any pizza, any size $2 off any Regular menu price/ Any gourmet pizza for $9.99 for a med, Lg. or Family size/ AND Any 3 family size pizzas for $10 off regular menu price. We are selling them for only $5 a piece...please catch me at church, or email or FB message me or let me know how many you would like...they don't expire!
Then we are trying to finish the treasured quilt for Ethan that is going to be using all of our clothing that i have saved of our girls' favorite clothes combined with Scott's/mine and Nate's clothes to have OTHERS names embroidered on the pieces of cloth that have donated and asked to be on the quilt. $20 for your name to be on the quilt.
We are praying that we can get in the last $3000 QUICKLY so we will be fully funded before we leave. If you can help us, we would appreciate it greatly!!! Our money says that we are at....$5091...which is really the $806 SO that would mean that we need to have it say $8091 VERY SOON! We are praying for a mighty miracle! Will YOU help us bring Ethan home?
ALWAYS BLESSED, Connie
This means that we are at the end of Ethan's grant fund raising. Ethan has $806 in his grant yet (remember that they don't show what has been used for other needs...our first trip, dossier costs were taken out so it is NOT what it says on our grant...that is the TOTAL that has been raised since Ethan was put onto MY FAMILY FOUND ME). We have found out an ESTIMATE of our costs for the airplane tickets...it is around $3300 for the three of us. We also will be needing to stay in the capitol this time and that is MUCH higher in costs for food and hotel than where we were at in Ethan's city before.
We are trying to raise the money with the garage sale-so a LOCAL way of help being brought in, we also have another LOCAL fund raiser that we are starting in full force and that is PAPA MURPHY's Coupon Cards that have coupons for a 1 topping pizza for $7.99-Med.Lg or Family size/ a 3 topping pizza for $9.99-Med, Lg. or Family size/ Any stuffed pizza for $10.99-Lg or Family size/ Any TWO family size pizzas coupon for $6 off any regular priced pizza/ A free cheesy bread or cookie dough w/a purchase of any regular priced pizza/ Any pizza, any size $2 off any Regular menu price/ Any gourmet pizza for $9.99 for a med, Lg. or Family size/ AND Any 3 family size pizzas for $10 off regular menu price. We are selling them for only $5 a piece...please catch me at church, or email or FB message me or let me know how many you would like...they don't expire!
Then we are trying to finish the treasured quilt for Ethan that is going to be using all of our clothing that i have saved of our girls' favorite clothes combined with Scott's/mine and Nate's clothes to have OTHERS names embroidered on the pieces of cloth that have donated and asked to be on the quilt. $20 for your name to be on the quilt.
We are praying that we can get in the last $3000 QUICKLY so we will be fully funded before we leave. If you can help us, we would appreciate it greatly!!! Our money says that we are at....$5091...which is really the $806 SO that would mean that we need to have it say $8091 VERY SOON! We are praying for a mighty miracle! Will YOU help us bring Ethan home?
ALWAYS BLESSED, Connie
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