Garage Sale Fundraiser

WE'RE HAVING A GARAGE SALE

Saturday December 12th from 8-2 at our home!!

Garage sales are one of my least favorite things (along with fundraising of any kind). However, this cause is well worth the time and effort. Our goal is to help defer the cost of our plane tickets (the next big expense in the process). Our tickets will be a little more than we had originally expected (about $5000) Originally, we thought the kids would probably be under age 2 or at least one of them would, allowing for much cheaper tickets for them. We'll have to purchase two full price tickets for the girls now because they're older (well worth it of course).

So, we're calling for a mass garage/closet/storage building clean out. If you have anything that you'd like to get rid of, we'd love to take it off your hands. Please contact me at jirvin79@gmail.com if you have any items you'd like to donate. We can arrange to pick the stuff up or you can drop it by.

Please feel free to pass this information along to anyone else that may be interested.

Starting the Season

We put the finishing touches on the Christmas Tree this afternoon. Colton had the honor of placing the angel on the tree (we did this first as he was melting and needed a nap). We were planning on putting the lights on last night when the kids were sleeping, but they were all burned out. I just had said how surprised I was that they had lasted 8 years (we got them the year we got married). Spoke too soon. So after church we stopped by Target to get new ones. After I got them all on and the tree decorated, I noticed that the top 2 strands were twinkling and the bottom one wasn't. I had bought one box of stationary lights unintentionally. So, our tree has extra character this year.

I also found something called a Jesse Tree on one of the blogs that I sometimes read (this familiy is also adopting from Ethiopia). It's a count down tree to Christmas that tells the history of the bible all the way up to the birth of Jesus. You can check it out on their site http://www.babeofmyheart.blogspot.com/ . The one she has is $100. Maybe I'll order it next year. This year, I found a site to print off the symbol ornaments www.eriercd.org/pdf/jessetree_4up.pdf and a site that has the bible verses and discussion for each day http://www.jesse-trees.com/ (under the parent devotional section). It takes 29 days to get through all the stories, so we're going to do 3 tonight to catch up.

4 Days Until Court (and this day is almost done)!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving! We have much to be thankful for this year as always. We are especially thankful for these three reasons above and the two across the world. We can't wait to have all our most precious reasons home together next year.

One week until court!!!