Time to get BUSY!!

Yeah, you heard me. BUSY!! We were told today that we could travel as early as September. Do you realize what month we are in? JUNE! So, that means in 3 months we could be meeting our angel girl.

I hate to even bring this up here because I don't want it to sound as if we don't have faith. We have HUGE faith, but we also know that God doesn't want us to sit back and expect blessings just to be heaped upon us. He wants us to work. And so, I'm bringing up the dreaded word- fundraising. Yes, we have to raise funds and FAST!

We have been so terribly blessed to have a jump start on the process.
*Reece's Rainbow has set up a webpage for our family to receive donations. Please note that RR is a 501c3 organization and all donations made to our family are tax deductible.
*Our dear daughter is selling her pottery to help bring her sister home- click here to visit Shaping Lives Pottery.
*We had one very successful yard sale (over $1600!) and already have people calling to tell us they have more to donate. So, another yard sale it is. We hope to begin making rounds to pick up donations next week and have the sale at the end of June.

More efforts in the works-
*My mother-in-law works for Kodak and was able to bless us with several brand new digital cameras to raffle off. That will begin here on the blog in the next week or so.
*We may even be able to raffle off a Nikon D80 or some other cool electronic gadget. I LOVE my Nikon and this would be a huge blessing!
*Our church consignment sale is coming up and we are accepting donations of children's items in good condition. We'll even do the dirty work- the hanging and tagging!
*And last but certainly not least- we pray that we'll have enough time to squeeze in a summer fling here on our property. I have been looking for an excuse to play Cow Patty Bingo and what better reason?! Also, we NEED LIVE MUSIC! If you live in our area and know of someone good, please let us know. We hope to have our party near the end of July (with LOTS of water games!!).

I will be starting a new blog for adoption only news in the next few days. I need to be home on my own computer first. And anyone know how to make a "button"? For those of you who don't know, a button is a cute little picture that when you click on it it takes you to a different site. I would love one with Ruslana's picture linking back to our Reece's Rainbow site.

I love you guys! Thank you for all your prayers and words of encouragement. I wish our girl knew how much she was loved already!
In Him,
E