and i keep finding myself having george bailey moments. you know from "it's a wonderful life"? where he's at the end and all his friends come in with money and it closes out with him feeling overwhelmed and loved and the quote "no man is a failure who had friends"?? well we didn't feel like failures, but we were definitely shown love and from dear friends and family. overwhelming support from others.
i'll be honest that i'm not sure what the protocol is for sharing what funds were raised etc. but i'll also be honest in sharing how much we were blessed. we were hoping that maybe with the help of our silent auction we could raise maybe at most $1000. well when we cleaned up and got home around 1a.m. we emptied our bowl to find around $2200!! we were floored. and shocked. and blessed. and thankful. you guys, are seriously generous and so kind. i still don't have enough thanks to provide for it all.
i'm not even sure what else to say. seriously. ha. thanks :)
on the meter of where we are and what we are looking at remaining, it goes like this...we essentially only have travel costs remaining, which is an overwhelming blessing in and of itself. we had originally speculated (and only hopeful speculating in doing so) that maybe we would travel in late spring...well it's looking more like late summer or maybe (hopefully not!) late fall at this point. and summer is the most expensive time to travel and tickets to taiwan are also at their highest then. while our game plan is to stay in country between court/wait times, there's also the possibility that i will have to come back for weddings and jacob may have to stay. while the mere thought of that makes me want to cry, we continually hand the entirety of timing back over to God. so we are banking on only having to pay for tickets once for us each to go and come back, but it may not go that way. currently we are looking at needing maybe $4,000 more to be on a little bit safer standing financially before we go.
once our referral for baby(ies) comes through, more paperwork/money will be worked on and spent to finalize immigration/passport forms. so while we are doing great, that is about what we have remaining, minimum. as we've discussed in other posts, i'm not into talking about the money side of things anyways. so we are estimating modestly a $4,000. we have no plans for other fundraisers at this point, though. aside from our awesome tshirts, we are simply trusting God to provide what we need, via work or spontaneous support (and as a friend recently pointed out, his provision may come in the area of a new idea for a fundraiser ha).
anyways. the fundraiser was a blast. this couple....
and then of course the mad dancing...i honestly didn't take that many in an attempt to participate and talk to everyone that came out to support us...but i did get a few of the mayhem :)
so, yes. major success thanks to so many. we get more anxious and prepared each day that passes. come on home, sweet potatoes!! :)
oh here are those awesome shirts :) jacob drew them out. it's clouds (of course) with the taiwanese sun from their flag peaking out...with our theme adoption verse. we didn't realize til i was wearing it recently, though, that the dotted line of the plane makes a "c" for cecil. :) happy accidents. to buy your own click the "donate" button on the top right of this page...make sure to include your address and size you want in the comments section and we'll send it your way. facebook, instagram and email (or comments here) are also effective. :) they're $20 each and +$5 for shipping.
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