Whoo Hoo! Succesfull Yardsale!

It was a very cold 30 degrees yesterday morning at 6 a.m., but none the less Bryan, Smitty and I unloaded the garage onto the driveway and our yardsale began.  We sold until 2 p.m. and raised an awesome $600!  That is a ton for a yardsale people!  We sold about 20 shirts and and had very few items left to pack up from the inventory.  I would like to shout out to the following families for all their help and donations for this fundraising event for us: The Smith's, The Barnes', The Sherrill's, The Taylor's, The Turvavilles, The Page's, The Higgins, The Kute's, The MacMillans and The Krump's.  Thank you so much to Meredith for helping me sort, price, collect and work the sale with me and for Smitty, your husband and his labor to help us unload it all yesterday morning.  It was great fun with you all!  Thank you to the Sherrill's who donated probably at least a good $200 worth of stuff :)) and for bringing us lunch and helping us breakdown.  A big shout out to the Barnes', for taking our children yesterday morning so we could work the sale without having to worry about Joey coming outside asking for his toenails to be clipped every 5 minutes :)))).  Seriously, he was doing that. 

We have decided that we will pursue another type of selling event such as a rummage sale.  So I am now going to be collecting for items to sell in February for that.  If you have any items you want to donate, please let me know! 

Even though we still have a lot of money to raise, we are moving fast forward in this adoption anyways.  We just found out that the Adoption Tax Credit will be expiring after 2012.  That means we would normally get about $13,000 credited after our adoption is finalized, but with the expiration it will revert back to pre-Bush tax cuts which was only $5000 credited.  So with that being said, we are trying to do everything that is in our power and control to move this along a little faster so that our daughter may be home next December.  What's in our power you might ask??? Our paperwork and Dossier preparation.  We can work hard over the next 3 months to get everything collected and put together so that we are "referral" ready by March.  After that, not much is left in our control technically.  Just waiting and praying. 

Please consider purchasing a shirt please!  They are only $15 for the Adult and Childs: S, M, L, XL.  The Adults XXL is $17.  Longsleeved T's are all $20. 

If you have us ship the T-shirt to you we have to add on a shipping fee of $4.  If we can deliver them to you directly, there is no need to pay the shipping fee.  Please, please help us sell these.  They are a high quality and neat t-shirt to wear. 

Peace and Love,

Bryan and Bridgette

So Much Stuff - So Many Thank You's!

Oh my we have accumulated a very good amount of items for our yardsale this Saturday!  It looks like it's going to be a very cold morning too!  If any of you are still needing a place for any unwanted stuff in your home, please call me because my garage still has room.  Our t-shirts that we had made to sell will be here as well on Wednesday.  We will be selling them at our yardsale.  You may purchase one at anytime through me though.  I will post a picture as soon as they come in. 

Just to update you all on our paperwork trail, we are sending out all of our homestudy update info completed to the agency tomorrow and make the first big payment to begin the process of our dossier.  On Tuesday, we will send out a payment of $3200 big ones plus $1500 for homestudy update to our agency. Upon completion of the homestudy and dossier we will send the another $3200 to the agency to process everything and send off our docs to Uganda and wait to be matched with a child.  So you see why our fundraising is so near and dear to our hearts right now :).  My goal is to have our dossier finished and ready by Februray and be matched with a child by May.  Really the only part that is somewhat in our control or hands is the paperwork process.  After we turn it in, it is truly waiting for The Lord to redeem to us who He has chosen for us. 

Thank you so much to all of you who've donated items for our yardsale and to so many of you who have also booked Thirty One parties in the last month.  I was able to put $400 from all my Thirty One parties in October into our adoption account!  How awesome is that!  Plus, those of you who had the parties, got lots of free product to boot.  It's a double whammy!  We are on a good roll here people!  Thank you sooooo much!

Peace and Love

The Klinchuch's