October 28, 2011

Fall Festival Fun

Last weekend was jam packed with Fall Festivities!
On Friday night, two awesome ladies came over with their awesome baking skills and helped me make delicious treats for our bake sale at the Faith Family Fun Fair.


Saturday we volunteered at our community fall festival. We walked around the festival selling raffle tickets. (Really Kelsey sold the raffle tickets. I learned that Trey and I are horrible sales people. Thank goodness we brought Kelsey along...lifesaver!) All proceeds from the festivities went to Helping Hands and the local food bank. It was definitely a good cause and I'm glad we were able to be a part of it.


After that festival we were off to prepare for the Faith Family Fun Fair. We had a booth for Treys business (Barfields Appliance & Parts) and we were raising money and awareness for our adoption. We participated at the festival both Saturday and Sunday evening. It was a blast! We did a bake sale, sold Kindle tickets and had an appliance smash off. :) The smash off was the biggest hit. For each donation a person gave they got 2 hits on a variety of appliances. The boys were loving it, even some girls!





We had wonderful volunteers to help!
Thanks you guys!

Even the cutest Spiderman ever came out to help raise money for baby Kade!
We also had our tree at the event. It's starting to bloom with fingerprints!


Between donations, festival earnings and selling our garage fridge, we ended up raising $1,000 last week!! I'd say that's a successful week. Thank you Lord for providing!!

We now have enough to pay for our agency application and home study!! Yay yay yay! I am actually mailing our application today and will be dropping off our completed home study paperwork on Monday! God is so good! One step closer to Kade.


Our next fee of $2,416.33 will be due upon acceptance of our application. So that will be very soon. Please pray that the funds will be provided quickly. We have faith!

Thank you for reading my blog! I would love to hear how you found the blog and any thoughts you have about the adoption. I absolutely love reading your comments, so feel free to leave them. :)

2 comments:

  1. Congratulations on your fund raiser Ashton! So happy for God's provision! By the way, love the new blog! :)

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  2. I was reading everything,I can't believe some complain about you wanting to help God's babies.Children are all cute no matter what color,it is just a color(that means we would never not pray or love someone for their skin color)Ridiculousness is what it is!!! Can't wait to see the pics of y'all holding that baby,God will see you through to the end,I happened to be looking for a used christmas tree on craigslist for my autistic son*thats how I found your page.We'll be praying you get your goal quickly!!! God Bless!!

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