2012 was CRAZY

This year has been an AMAZING year for us.  We have had the opportunity to watch our daughter grow and entire year older.  She had a lot of firsts this year.  Her first tooth, first steps, first word!  O my heart she is growing so fast and so beautiful!  We are of course on this crazy journey called adoption this year and God has grown us to be more like Him every step of the way.  Here is a recap for you!

January-March
-begin our homestudy.
-Do our first yard sale fundraiser
-Irelyn starts crawling.

April-June
-We have our second yard sale fundraiser
-We get approved by the court to adopt!
-Started Cloth diapering
-Started serving on the worship team

July-September
-Irelyn starts walking!
-We do our third yard sale
-We go to pioneer park to watch fireworks
-We go to California with my family for some beach fun!

October-December
-Gavin's Brother and sister both get married
-We spend a ton of time with family enjoying the Christmas season
-Our dossier finally makes it to Ethiopia!

We are starting the new year off with a very difficult fundraiser.  Well....we might do the fundraiser.  Have you ever heard of Give1Save1?  If not check out the site  Give1Save1africa.com.  It is a blog that a woman made to help adopting families fund-raise for their journey.  She requires that everyone makes a video to apply for being on her blog.  We are currently putting together a video for this fundraiser and let me tell you it has not been easy!  I am not great with the computer to begin with.  Just as soon as we got our video done and were about to send it off, something happened with the computer and we lost the whole thing!  So I am currently doing it over again.  O Well!  Story of my life when it comes to this adoption:)
Here is a recap of all the families Give1Save1 has helped in 2012.  Pretty amazing how this women is using her computer gifts to serve the Lord!


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