Adoption Fundraiser Yard Sale Event

We have set the date for our huge adoption fundraiser yard sale!  It will be held on  September 10th!  If any reader who happens to live around the Washington Federal Way area, and would like to attend the fundraiser to check out all of our items, feel free to email me, and I will send you directions!

-Lots of donations in!  Lots of home, office, electronics, baby, sporting and furniture items!
-Bake sale at our event!  Lots of volunteers have stepped up to commit to baking some fresh desserts- thank you!
-Considering having someone man the grill for selling hotdogs as well.  This will be confirmed next week.

A little less than 2 weeks left, but there is so much to do!  If you have any ideas for us, please comment with them. We need all the help we can get in raising the money to bring Evan home.  We will however have a poster board display with Evan and the Brown Family's story with a collection jar.  Maybe our guests and visitors would still like to support Evan- even if they don't purchase any of our items!

Also, I have an update on our homestudy:  We got our report in last Thursday- and we have gone through 1 round of corrections.  It looks great- and I have sent it off to the adoption agency for them to check for changes needed as well. I should hear back today from them and we should be proceeding by tomorrow on the finalization of the homestudy.  It looks like we need a final interview with the agent vis-à-vis.

Arizona!

David at his worst- before his healing!

First and foremost, a big thank-you to whoever gave to Evan's fund through Reece's Rainbow!  I was so shocked, and I am very thankful to God for your willingness to support our beloved Evan!  That means so much to me! 

I also wanted to update everyone with the status of our adoption.  Last Monday, the 8th we called our homestudy agent who said that just that morning they submitted our homestudy report to the copy editor.  So I can imagine that any day now we should have the report in our hands to approve, and on to compiling our dossier!  This is by no means a fast process, I am learning patience, as all of your are who are following us on our journey.

I got some pictures in today from 3 weeks ago from visiting family in Arizona.  My family is friends with a wonderful lady from their church, named Beth, who also has Down syndrome.  It was such a pleasure to meet her and her mother and to talk with them both!  Apparently Beth has been praying for David since his birth, so I am honored to meet one of his prayer warriors.  (When David was born he stayed at the NICU for 3 weeks due to feeding issues, he had further medical complications, then overnight everything was NORMAL and we were being discharged within 2 days! So God did a miracle in our lives thanks to all of the prayers from our friends and family!)

That's it for now, enjoy the pictures!

 

Picture THIS- an answered prayer!

Today I received a special blessing... Another picture of Evan! A big thank you to you-know-who!  I asked God for a picture months back, and it finally arrived!

He looks so much like David. In this picture, his hair is the same, they have the same eyes, nose... my boy!
I believe this picture was taken late August/early September of 2010, so Evan is still 11 months older now.  I bet he is so big and doing so much now!

The homestudy agency says they will be finishing up the report next week.  I am praying that everything will still work out to adopt Evan THIS YEAR!  But no matter what, God is in control of everything, so I don't have to worry one bit about the timing! Thank you Lord!

David is doing so great! We just came back form vacationing and visiting family in Las Vegas.  Above is my favorite picture of him taken while we were hanging in the backyard pool.  (I know he's not smiling, but I just love the composition and his little foot!) He is amazing and since my last update post, he is crawling up a storm and pulling to stand, and cruising, and has so much get up and go! Yay David! Mama's so proud! 

Thank you everyone for your support and prayers for our family.  So if God answers even the little prayer of a request for a picture, how much more will He answer my BIG prayer of a successful adoption and for the safety/blessings/angels of protection over my little Evan now?  :-)   Just something to think about!