February Update!

We just held our first Parent's Night Out, where we offer childcare from 6-11pm for $10 per kid. It went really smoothly, probably partially because we only had 2 kids attend, but we are sure the numbers will go up in the future! We made $35 on a night that we would have just been at home anyway (thanks to some extra donations!), and only spent $5 on a Little Caesar's pizza. We are already setting up our second PNO, and the the parents who took part tonight seemed to really enjoy the time they had out by themselves!

Looking forward to the next one!

We are 1/4 of the way there!

Our tax money is in, and that took us right up to the 25% mark!

Tax time!

We love tax time. We have made a habit of having extra money pulled from our paychecks to get a lump sum returned to us after we file our taxes. I just transmitted our return and the adoption fund will be getting quite the boost in the next few weeks. I just had a couple of decently priced eBay auctions end, and I will also be adding those amounts in as soon as the money is received and I ship the items.

We're making progress!

We did it!

Thanks to one last Christmas donation and good paychecks from both Klif and I, we were able to chip in enough money to break the $1,000 mark!

We are feeling pretty good going into the new year, and look forward to 2012!

Merry Christmas!

We had a great holiday weekend and spent a lot of time just enjoying family and relaxing. We were also blessed with some financial gifts for the adoption fund, which I have added to our total. We are now over our 5% mark and we are quickly approaching $1,000. I have some items listed online, and a few items that have already sold, and I will be adding that money to the total once I receive all of the money and ship all of the items out.

Not only did the adoption fund get a much needed boost, but thanks to a lot of overtime on Klif's part, some clever saving, and some Christmas money, we were able to have major repairs done on both of our cars over the last couple weeks and it was all done in cash. I hated to see all of that money go at once, but it was a lot better than having to finance any of it!

We hope everyone has a great New Year's, and we will update again soon!

Klif, Jordan, and Will

November update!

I just finished up this year's craft sale at work. We made $150 and all of it went into the adoption fund!

We have been looking at our money situation and the current plan is to have all of our adoption money raised by spring of 2013. Our tax refund money for the next two years will go 100% into the adoption fun, which will take care of about $8,000 of the fundraising. That leaves $9,000 to go, with $641 of that currently raised. We now have a tangible number to work from and we are excited to watch our fund grow over the next year.

Hey everyone! Just wanted to post a quick update. Shortly after our last post a few things happened: Klif's truck broke down, requiring $2500 in repairs, the monthly bills for Will's ear surgery started, and I visited the ER after cutting part of my finger off in a mandolin slicer. Needless to say, our adoption saving had not been as strong as we had hoped! We are finally getting back on track with all of those unexpected expenditures and we are starting to chip a little bit of money in from each paycheck. It isn't much right now, but it will add up!

I also hope to update my card blog and get some items listed on eBay and Etsy in the next few days.

Thanks again for all of your support!