Benefit Chili Dinner

September 26 some of our good friends put together a awesome benefit dinner for us.  Early on we thought about doing something like this but every time Andrew & I would talk about it we would get overwhelmed with how to make it happen.  It was a night of blessing to us.  I think the biggest thing was to see a community of people from all walks of life there to support us in bringing Selah home.  Some day she will see the pictures and read all the messages wrote to her and understand the community that is behind her.  We had two fundraisers that weekend which brought in almost $4000.  WOW!!  Which now makes us a little over half funded for those who are interested in the financial details.  We have spent October applying for lots of adoption grants, compiling documents for the dossier, and biometric fingerprinting.  Everything is sitting in Birmingham, AL waiting fingerprinting results.  When that is in everything will be notarized and dossier will be sent to China.  From what I understand then begins the long waiting process.  We are probably 7-8 months from travel if everything moves the way it has been lately.  It feels great to be mostly done with the mountains of paperwork that I'm sure won't be forgotten anytime soon.  Here's some pictures of our benefit evening.

 

 

Beautiful setting

 

The chili server

 

Kiddos bobbing for apples

 

The cotton candy tent

 

The community of people