Ok, so the first thing is that Our sweet little Claudia just recently had her birthday. Yes, our girl is now 3 years old! Jason and I longed to be with her, to share her 3rd birthday with her but we are still a few months away from traveling. Jason baked a nice yellow cake with chocolate frosting in honor of her birthday. It was yummy! We hope that her caretakers acknowledged her birthday and made it a special day for her. God willing, that will be her last birthday without a mommy and daddy to love on her. Who wants to help me start planning her 4th birthday party?
We just received notice from our adoption agency that they have sent out our dossier to her country! Ahh! That sis so exciting, that means we had everything in the first time! Now I only hope that her country thinks so too! It will take about 2 weeks for our paperwork to be translated and then it will be reviewed by her country. After they review it, if they do not require any more information or paperwork from us, they will approve us for adoption and send us a referral for Claudia! This could take 4-8 weeks. Once we get our referral, we will have her complete social and medical history and we are hoping for more pictures (you can never have enough). We have 2 weeks to accept the referral (of course we will). BUT as soon as we accept, we will owe $3000 to her country. We just sent our a check for $5400 and payed the $120 for our Apostilles so we are running low on funds and will need to raise $3000 in the next 5-8 weeks depending on how fast her country is. We know that God will see us through with this, we have yet to miss a payment but sometimes I really wish it were in the bank already! I cannot wait to see how God is going to use his people this time to get us funded for the next steps.
Speaking of funding, my friend Natalie is doing a fundraiser to bring her girl Sara home. Ok, she is doing multiple fundraisers BUT she is using AdoptionBug to sell some really awesome T-shirts. Jason and I just got our in the mail yesterday. We decided that instead of doing something big for our anniversary, we would help a fellow adoptive mommy to get her daughter home. You can purchase the shirts here: http://www.adoptionbug.com/keller/
 |
| Here we are in our new shirts! |
And on to our current fundraiser, this is a HUGE Auction of over 100 items to be sold on Facebook. Please share this with your friends and family, this auction could be a huge success if we get the word out about it. FACEBOOK AUCTION.
No comments:
Post a Comment