A big thank you!

I am amazed at how God has been working in our lives the last 10 months, way back when I began praying for God to change Mike's heart for adoption if it was in his plan for our family.  I am not surprised at all that God did this work in his own way and I am not surprised, but humbled, by the people who are reaching out to us and really want to help us bring our little girl home.  We have had donations from people all across the United States, Canada and Australia!  God is so good and he has been here with us through all of the trials that are coming our way since committing to adopt Anna.  When we have needed money for each step of the way it has been there.  God IS seeing us through this journey and I have no doubt in mind that he will help us with every penny we need to bring HIS daughter home and make her our daughter as well.  I often get emails from complete strangers who want to know how they can help.  I had the sweetest lady email me and tell me that she wanted to make cards with Anna's picture on it and send it out to her friends and family and ask for donations to help us bring Anna home.  She was asking that they make a donation in honor of her son, rather than buying him Christmas gifts.  We don't even know her, but look how God is using his people to bless us and help us!  We still have a lot of money to raise, but I am fervently praying and believing that God has a plan in store for us and will make a way for it to happen.

So we say a BIG THANK YOU to those of you who have helped us along this beautiful journey that we are on.  Thanks to those of you who have given donations, held fund raisers, made cakes and cookies to sell, took up donations from their friends and families and also those of you who are praying us through this!  Your prayers and support mean so much to us!  You have no idea the things we have encountered during this journey, both good and not so good :(  There are people who don't understand why we would want to bring this broken, little orphan girl into our family and that really stings and cuts to the heart.  But thankfully there are only a few people with that view and hundreds more who are on our side cheering and praying and helping us make this whole process go smoothly.  We thank each and every one of you from the bottom of our hearts!

We only have 4 more days to raise funds for our big prize give away on December 15.  To be honest we have barely made enough to cover the cost of the iPad.  Will you please, please share our link, share our story and help us raise more funds to help bring our little girl home?  You can share the link on Facebook, your blog and emails.  Get creative :) Please help us in any way you can imagine!  Thank you so much for your efforts and may God bless each and every one of you!