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