Fundraiser Finale!

Our "Adoption Rocks" Girls...Help bring them home with these final fundraisers!

We are soon on our way to Haiti and have some sweet fundraising items we need to sell before we leave! We still need to come up with $720 for our I-600 fee, $800 ($400 per child) for visa fees, and $100 ($50 per child) for IBESR fee at the end of the adoption process. We recently found out about the $720 and that the $400 was "per child". We paid our I-600 fee at the very beginning of the adoption process before submitting our paperwork in Haiti, but because our girls are not biological siblings we are now told that we will be required to pay an additional fee (this is a U.S. paperwork fee) for the additional child being adopted that is not "from the same family". Same story for the additional visa fee. 


Please check out our new fundraising items that we hope will help raise a portion of these adoption expenses. We are excited about them and we hope you are too! If you would like to purchase one or more of the following then please send me an e-mail with your order and address to eeream@hotmail.com. 

Our biggest fundraiser going on right now is the Chosen Marathon for Adoption. This amazing event is happening October 29th, 2011 in our hometown of New Braunfels, TX. We have many friends and family members signed up to run on our marathon team! You can support our team "Chosen and Much Loved" and help us raise money for our adoptions by giving a tax deductible donation through the marathon website or by mail. Go to marathonforadoption.com and click on "Donate" then "Team" and follow the instructions. 

And here are our newest fun-raiser items!

$10 for "Beauty for Ashes" 8x10 print (multiples available)

Hiking up a steep hill in Haiti I came upon this rubble from the Jan.12, 2010 earthquake and noticed that flowers were blooming in the midst of the destruction.  The following verse came to mind as I gazed upon this sight.

"To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified."
Isaiah 61:3

This photo is a physical reminder that beauty can come from these ashes, and this beauty from the ashes was the catalyst for the flowers of Haiti photos also included in the print and below. These examples are photos I took of the actual print and are clearer and prettier in real life. 

$10 for "Flowers of Haiti" 8x10 print (multiples available)

$20 each or $50 for all three sets of Megan's Creations
(one of a kind handmade baby booties and hats)
My sweet friend Megan wanted to do something to help raise funds to bring our girls home. She didn't have money to give but donated her precious time and talents in making these beautiful sets for baby by hand.
These would make great baby shower gifts for a baby girl. Thank you Megan!

Megan's Creations front view
 

$40 for these 4 bags of Just Love Coffee (Ground)
This is our awesome fundraiser coffee which sells for $12.95 per bag + $5 shipping. We won a fundraising contest and received coffee in abundance. While I would love to hoard it all for myself, it is not pracical to take this much coffee to Haiti in our limited luggage space...especially when coffee is one thing that I love in Haiti! So we are sharing our abundance at a discounted rate for our coffee loving friends in the States! If you are one of our regular coffee customers or have always wanted to try it but thought the price was too high, this is a great way to get some great coffee!

$40 for these 4 bags of Just Love Coffee (Whole Bean)