Auction results; announcing the winners

We raised $1,963!!!! Thanks so much to everyone who participated!  We really appreciate your help in raising money for our adoption, and are very grateful for your generosity. Thanks especially to everyone who donated the beautiful items for this auction.  I have been blessed with a very talented and generous group of family and friends,…

The auction is CLOSED!

Thanks to EVERYONE who donated, placed a bid, visited, prayed for us, or just thought of us!  We love you and appreciate you more than you know! I’ll be posting again tonight about the winners and the total money raised…so stay tuned!  

Our Adoption Auction is Live!

Okay, here’s how it works: To bid on an item, click on the title of the item below and leave your bid in the comment section for that item.  All of the items have a starting bid. Please make sure to give a name and an email address when you make your bid.  If you’re…

Two more days until the auction!

Don’t forget, our auction starts this Friday at 9 am ET.  If you haven’t seen the little sneak peak I posted yesterday, check it out! This is definitely starting to feel real.  I bought a plane ticket home a couple days ago, for one week before the baby’s due date.  So, April 8th, I’m flying…

Auction preview!

Here’s a little sneak peak of just a few of the items you’ll be able to bid on in the upcoming auction! Only 5 more days until the auction!!!  It starts Friday, March 11th at 9 am ET and runs until Monday March 14th at 5 pm ET, so don’t forget to mark your calendars…

I couldn’t help myself

Great finds at Target yesterday: We haven’t been buying any baby stuff yet.  We’re trying to show some restraint, knowing we can get whatever we need once we’re in Louisiana, but I saw these cute (gender-neutral, of course) onesies and had to pick them up! Our baby is going to love The Beatles as much…

We’re running another auction!

Okay, the month of February completely got away from me!  I was thinking we still had a couple weeks until our next auction, but it’s NEXT WEEK!!! Oh my. We did so well in our first auction, raising over $3,000.  There were a lot of people who missed the auction, who were out of town…

Homestudy is almost done!

All of the paperwork on our end is done, we’ve had our 3 meetings with our social worker (SW), and finally finished our health and fire inspections! Our SW is awesome – she said “Don’t hold me to this, but I’ll probably be finished writing your homestudy within the week.  Don’t worry though, if birthmom…

Results of the auction, and announcing the winners!

The auction was an overwhelming success! Thanks to everyone’s generosity, we were able to raise over $3,000 towards our adoption fund!!!!  We are absolutely blown away!  I had no idea how this would go, and it definitely exceeded our expectations. I sincerely thank each and every one of you for the support you have provided…