What a week!

What a week! My mom who lives in D.C. has been visiting for about a week now and what a whirl wind its been! We have been getting ready for the Little Falls Craft Fair for our hopefully biggest and most profitable fundraiser. For those of you whom don't know, the Little Falls Craft Fair is the biggest craft Fair in MN. Around 30,000 people attend it every year. They pretty much close down the city of Little Falls and it turns into one giant Craft Fair. We are making Purses, Child and adult aprons, children's hats and burp cloths. So needless to say we are sewing our little fingers off! Here are some pictures of just a few of the thousands of aprons what we are making if anyone is interested in buying anything let me know! We can personalize everything. Brian my wonderful husband was busy all weekend picking up donations for out enormous garage sale that we are having at the end of Aug. I have had so many people donate to our garage sale that it is taking over 1/2 our basement and our third garage stall! We are thinking about pushing the sale up to the middle of July because we are running out of space to store it all! What a terrible problem to have, right! In between driving all around MN he ran and finished his first 5K run! I am so proud of him he ran it in just over 20 min, that's almost a 5 1/2 min mile. Yahoo My sister is getting married in the fall in Lake Tahoe, so we are taking a girls week and heading to San Fransisco and then driving to Lake Tahoe for a few days. We leave Thursday. What a whirl wind this week has been! On the adoption front, we are filling out the paper work for LMI and hopefully Brian will be sending it in while I am in CA. We have chosen Summit to do our home study so we have been tring to get everything in order for that. I hope you all have a wonderful and safe 4th of July!

Books

Brian and I went to the book store the other day and searched through the TINY adoption section. We purchased 'The complete book of international adoption' and 'Twenty things adopted children with their adoptive parents knew'. When we got home we searched the web for more and of course we found hundreds. Please let me know what books you have read that you thought where interesting. We are ready to start hitting the books!

O.K. now its offical!

Today, to much of our suprise(we wern't expecting it so soon) Brian and I got a letter in the mail saying that our application for the Kaz program was accepted! Horray! So here starts our adoption process...

Bloogers Unite!

I have been just blown away with how many wonderful supportive people there are out there! Thanks to Christy I have been befriended by so many other bloggers, its amazing. I enjoy reading all of your blogs, yes I am an official blog junkie, thanks Christy, but it is totally worth it! I have even been contacted by a few of you that don't have any connection to what I call the 'Christy Clan!' Its just wonderful. I am taking lots of notes from your blogs, great information for beginners like us we appreciate it. Brian knows my new nightly routine; quick run after work, dinner, wine, couch, check all 11 blogs that I am addicted to, fill Brian in on everything, than bed! How great, thank you all for the supprotive and insprational stories, I look forward to tuning in nightly!

Fundraising

Now that Brian and I have started this amazing adventure we have been brainstorming some fundraising ideas. We have gotten lost of great ideas from you all and the tallies in! July: Book sale! We are going to have a big book sale, what doesn't sell we are going to sell them online, who doesn't love cheep books, I am a sucker for them! So what we are asking for is if any of you want get those old dust collectors off the shelf and make room for something else we would love to take them off your hands! August:Garage Sale! So if anyone has anything that they would like to donate to our sale please let me know! Thanks Aimee for all your left over garage sale items, great start!!! We don't want to make anyone fell like they have to contribute to our fundraising efforts but I though I would let you all know what we have decided to do in case you want to contribute something. Thanks to all for your support!

Well its offical...well kind of!

Brian and I both where feeling a little overwhelmed with everything, having to find an agency shuffling through 20 different packets from different agencies, doing research trying to decide what country was best for Brian and I. So Friday night Brian and I went to our friend Christy's (who also happens to be my employer) to talk adoption. Christy was able to answer a lot of questions that we had. Still feeling overwhelmed but than all of a sudden I looked around and saw her daughter playing an the floor coming over to Brian and I for random hugs and bounces it was wonderful. Werid to think we may be doing that with our child this time next year! So, today Brian and I have officially mailed out our adoption application! Hooray after a long night of filling out the application and answering some tough questions we finally brought it to the mail box at 10:00pm! We decided to go with Little Miracles Adoption Agency. It seems very surreal at this moment. We have been through so much just to get to this point and now we are here...so here we go!