2 days. 800 miles. 21 hours. The best travel buddy ever, Nitz, and LOTS of coffee. 

All documents have been sent to the adoption agency. 

The ladies at FedEx had a mini dance party with me when they found out what I was sending.

T- minus 4-5 months to get my Lili Beth. 

Praise Him from whom all blessings flow!

If you got this in your mailbox, you'd be jumping up and down, screaming like a little girl at the end of your driveway, too.

It's the i800a approval we have been waiting on to get our paperwork to China!  Weeeeeeeee!

We have an update... with a smile!

 We received two videos and pictures of our precious, 

precious daughter!  

It is very obvious she is quiet and shy; a beautiful flower.  

Oh how my heart longs to cup my hands around her gorgeous cheeks, look into her eyes and tell her how wonderful she is.  

How wanted she is.  

How precious she is.  

Big sister and I are literally catching ourselves saying, "I'm ready to go to China..." while wistfully looking into space.  

It can't come fast enough. 

Ways to Donate

I have had several people contact me asking how to contribute to our adoption fund.  Apparently if you check our blog on your smart phone the sidebar of the site does not show up, so I'm putting the info here as well.

The first way is to go to www.PayPal.com and send a donation to fowlerjc4@yahoo.com.

When you send a donation through paypal there are zero fees taken out!  We will get 100% of your donation if you send it and mark it as a donation through paypal.

Another way is GoFundMe:

http://www.gofundme.com/Lili-Beth

Go Fund Me takes 7.5% of your donation for themselves.  

Either way you choose to donate is fine with us, we appreciate all of the help we have gotten so far!  God is so very good and continues to use you all to bless us!  

Garage Sale MADNESS!

Never in my life have I ever seen so much STUFF in one place.

So much we took over the neighbor's garage AND driveway, AND had to borrow that trailer in the background to store all of the STUFF.

We had people calling/emailing/texting left and right, wanting to bring goodies to us for the fundraiser.

I would look out my window and see random people unloading donations in my driveway.

Be still my heart.

The outpouring of love and support overwhelmed our entire little family.  

We had support and help from people in all walks of life.  

Donations, donations, donations.

We decided to have our garage sale on two days (Friday and Saturday) since there was SO much stuff.

Only problem:  60% change of THUNDERSTORMS predicted for BOTH days.

We decided to go out on faith and hold the garage sale rain or shine.

It rained and stormed ALL AROUND US.  Just about all of our customers said they drove through rough weather to get to us.

We didn't get a drop of that rain.

We had a pretty consistent gentle breeze that gently kept the storms away from our street.

OH the outpouring of love and support we received!  

The wonderful friends who volunteered their time (and their kids' time) to help out with all of the back-breaking work just overwhelmed us. (You know who you all are!)

Garage Sale total:  $2,895

My cup overflows.