Successful auction and huge blessing

Our online auction has come and gone, and I would like to thank everyone who participated in anyway at all.  I would have to say that it was a big success helping us raise almost $1,600.  As I was sending out messages to the winners, I started getting replies from people letting me know that they were sending their bids to us.  One particular message that I received told me that they were going to send much more than the total of their winning bid.

This evening we were blessed once again by a person sending a gift to our agency on our behalf.  If you had not noticed by the bar at the top we are now over halfway to our goal.  We are completely humbled by the generosity of so many, and thankful for those that have come along side us and stood shoulder to shoulder with us as embark on this journey!

Another State Added!

Illinois	89
Indiana	17
Ohio	7
Missouri	5
Canada	4
Georgia	3
Iowa	2
North Carolina	1
New Hampshire	1
Massachusetts	1
Texas	1
Maryland	1
Connecticut	1

Total                            133

After being away for a week, I spent some time this evening checking on our puzzle progress.  We are now up to 133 pieces added.  You will also note that one of the new pieces that has been added has also added another State to our list of States!

Long week!

A VERY long week is starting to come to an end. 2 flights, 1 layover and a 2.5 hour drive seperate me from my bed.

I spent the week installing and training a new customer on how to use our system. The week started out with everything going wrong. Thankfully it was not anything that was my fault, bit some of the things caused a few issues for me. It seemed like one thing after another was piling on.

The day's all began to run together. I was having lunch with some of the women and we were talking about our adoption process and where we were adopting from. They had mentioned that one of the other ladies in the office had just spent 3 weeks there on vacation. REALLY, what are the odds. Most people have never heard of it before. We had a good conversation about the process and it was a nice break from the issues.

Things were looking up lastnight and today went very well.   Things were falling into place. I had a few more conversations in the office and as I was wrapping up and leaving, I was blessed by one of the women in the office. God is good.

My Birthday!

Today is my birthday, well technically at this time of night it was yesterday (Sunday).  I spent the day compiling things for our online auction that we are putting together.  I went to church this evening and the topic of time came up, and how quickly time goes by.  We broke up into groups of two to pray this evening.  My partner and I were talking about how quickly time goes by, and our life, in the scope of things will be gone in a blink.  Before we know it we will be traveling to Eastern Europe for our first of three trips.  The proceeds from this auction will go towards our in country expenses.  You can click here to access the auction.

Pieces added by States, and Canada!

As you can see below we have had pieces added from 11 states and some pieces have been added from Canada!  I can not wait to see how many states will be represented when we get the puzzle completed!

Illinois	85
Indiana	17
Ohio	6
Missouri	5
Canada	4
Georgia	3
Iowa	2
North Carolina	1
New Hampshire	1
Massachusetts	1
Texas	1
Maryland	1
Total           127

A $25 donation by clicking the link below will add a piece to our puzzle with your name on the back!  Can you help us reach our goal?

What do 3 plane tickets look like?

Ever wonder what 3 plane tickets looks like?  Today we surpassed 120 puzzle pieces which will account for 3 tickets. Below is what three tickets look like at our house.

 

Puzzle progress!

Here is what the puzzle looks like so far!

Correcting and Big last two days!

I would like to start by saying my last blog post was not correct.  I said that we had a piece added from someone that we did not know.  I was not correct, we did know them, I just knew them as someone else.  I knew them as the owners of Isaacs Family Fun.  They have been huge supporters of ours and our ENTIRE family loves to go and play putt putt and laser tag there!  They are also doing a fundraiser for us donating 10% of sales to our adoption fund if you bring this flyer in!

2 plane tickets completed.  120 pieces added will complete the third!

Friday and Saturday were two very good days for us.  14 pieces were added each day to give us 28 pieces added in the two days!  We are very grateful and humbled by the outpouring of support.  We have added more states that pieces have been added from.  Below are the totals that we have now:

Illinois	68
Indiana	12
Ohio	6
Missouri	5
Canada	4
Georgia	3
Iowa	2
North Carolina	1
New Hampshire	1
Massachusetts	1
Texas	1
Maryland	1
Total	105