The Winners are.......

Thank you so much to all who donated to our raffle! We are forever grateful and humbled by everyone's generosity. Please excuse our very unprofessional video below announcing the winners. Lily has provided a little comedy and our dog, Abbey, decided she wanted to put in her two cents as well! A huge THANK YOU to Erica Mierop of Signature Finishes and Allen and Vickie Beckner of Jump On It Inflatables! Congratulations to the winners. I will email the winners with the contact info to redeem their prizes. A little tip...you will need to scroll down to the bottom of the blog to pause the music before clicking play on the video.

Ethiopia now a 2 trip Travel Adoption

Wow! If adoption wasn't already expensive enough! Today news broke that Ethiopia will now require adopting parents to travel twice before the adoption is completed. The first travel we will meet our child and attend the court hearing. This was not required before today. We will have to leave our child behind and wait for our Visa appointment with the Embassy to return to bring our child home. This has a lot cons but has pros as well. We will get to meet our child a little sooner and we will not be required to re-adopt our child once bringing them home to the united states. This is the same process that Haiti required so we are familiar with this process but Ethiopia is much more expensive to travel to being that it is so far away compared to Haiti. This now adds about $6000 to our total of $19,000 we still need to raise. The first trip we will both be required to travel but most likely the second trip only one spouse will be required so worst case scenario David will travel alone to bring our child home. Yes I said David because most of you know me well enough to know God is stretching me to make the first trip! (ha!ha!) Basically, we are not worried about it at this time. We know that God is totally in control and he is in the details. We'll just have to be patient and continue moving forward to let God continue writing HIS story through our adoption journey!

Please be in prayer for our home study to be wrapped up and approved in the next couple of weeks. We are right there at the end of it trying to cross every T and dot every I. We have a deadline for a grant we are applying for that is due April 15 and we can't apply again until October 15 if we miss it. We have to have the approved home study in order to apply.

Only six days including today remaining for our current Donation Raffle. If you've been meaning to donate for an entry please do so soon before time runs out! We are at 53 entries! God is so amazing! We give him all the glory for how far we have come on this journey! Please spread the word and help us reach 100 entries by Monday March 15th.

In HIS Grip!

Two weeks left!

There are only two weeks remaining for our donation raffle. We are still praying for a total of 100 entries by March 15th. We currently have a total of 33 entries. As for the 40 entries we were praying for by the end of the week, God continues blessing us and we are only 13 entries away from meeting that first goal. We are praying for 13 more donation entries by Wednesday.

We've noticed we have many readers from all over the United States and wanted to give a big THANK YOU to you all for following our journey! We've had one reader as far as Australia - totally cool!

Enter to win a Bathroom or Children's Room painted by Erica of Signature Finishes, Valued at $500 or for a chance to win a free day's rental from Jump On It Inflatable For every $20 donation made to our adoption fund Starting February 15th thru March 15th you will be entered in the drawing for a chance to win. $20 =1 entry, $40 = 2 Entries,$100 =5 Entries, etc. You get the idea! Services must be redeemed in the Middle TN area and are not redeemable for cash. See our post titled "Enter to Win" to see pics of Erica's work and our post "Donation Raffle Update" for details on the rental. You can make your donation through the donation button here on our website or mail us a check made payable to Cindy Scott at 1015 West Kirkland Ave, Suite 202, Nashville,TN 37216. We will post a short video of Lily pulling out the winning name for each prize on our blog no later than March 20th. So brown brag your lunch for a week or skip Starbucks a few times and donate to have a chance to win! How cool to make a $20 donation to help an orphan come home to their forever family and have a chance to win an awesome painted room worth $500 or have the coolest yard toy in the neighborhood for a day!



Blessings,
Cindy