Financial Update!

So the Garden Party was wonderful ... We had the best time in the world.  Thank you all so so much for donating, participating, supporting, praying ... it was all we hoped it would be!

So you look over there to the right (--->) and you see that we just broke the $10k mark of fundraising!  WAHOOO!!  But wait, didn't that total say $22,500 yesterday?  Not $18,000?  Why yes, yes it did.

We had our first homestudy visit on the 14th of September, and it went smashingly well.  Aside from adoring our caseworker and having a wonderful time talking on the couch for what felt like hours, we got a wonderful surprise.  If our adoption is done within one year of our homestudy being finalized, our total fees will be $18k!!!  The fees with our agency are on a sliding scale based on your last 3 years of tax returns, and 3 years ago I worked for the board of education so my salary was quite a bit lower.  So we have 12 months from the end of the study, and at that moment our final payment will be $11,500 when we receive our little Pea!

So we are now around $7,000 away from all of our fees being raised.  We are so thrilled and in awe of the love we have experienced and the ability to save save save on our own!  It has only been 9 months (ironic!) since we started the adoption fund, and we are well over half way there!  We are actually 65.53% there =)

So, now we go into a world of slowing down, no big events, no insane deadlines ... just living a nice quiet fall season with all the other aspects of our cooky life =)  Preparing for Christmas Cards is our next big fundraiser, can you BELIEVE that?!?!!?

For pictures of the event, take a look here!