And the winner is...........

JACKIE DOYLE!!!!  Congrats on your touchdown!

Raffle Drawing

We will be drawing a winner tonight at 6:00pm for the Seahawks quilt.  Details will be posted soon after.

Quilt Raffle

I want to share about this amazing idea that has totally been a God thing the whole way.  A few months ago I set out to make a baby quilt that we would raffle off for a fundraiser.  In fact I was at Joann Fabrics getting the finishing supplies when this idea came to me.  Make a Seahawks lap quilt.  First off I'm not a football fan and didn't even know their colors.  So home I went to check out Pinterest Seahawks quilt ideas.  I found one but no instructions came with the lovely picture so on to a geometry lesson and practice blocks to make sure everything was right.  I now have a pattern that maybe when I'm done with it I will share.  The quilt was finished with record speed for me and thanks to some lovely ladies from church for their machine quilting abilities. Quilt size is 65 x 72. Opportunities continue to open up for us to share this with different people like the local newspaper, a local TV station, and a donated booth at a craft bazaar.  Here's a picture of the quilt.

 

 

 

We are now selling $2.00 raffle tickets until Novemebr 22.  You can purchase tickets several different ways.  The preferred way is to mail us a check:

 

Andrew & Sherrie Miller

3512 Cedar Rd

Pasco, WA 99301

 

Another way is to donate through the Paypal link on the right side of this blog.  Then shoot us a email telling us how many tickets you purchased at

 

andshemiller@gmail.com

 

One more option is through this fundraising site:

 

 http://adopttogether.org/selahgrace  

 

You would need to email us and let us know how many tickets with this option too.  Then we will be out in the community at different spots selling tickets.  We will be out at Hapo Credit Union 4902 N Road 68 Pasco on November 15th 9-3 selling baked goods and raffle tickets.  November 22 we will be at Calvary Chapel 10611 W Clearwater Ave, Kennewick, WA 99336 with a table at their craft bazaar.  We will take custom orders for quilts with team of your choice also.  Contact us for more details.     509-727-7476

 

We are really excited about this fundraiser and see God show off like only He can do!

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

 

 



So Many Questions

So many questions having been running through my mind about Selah.  What did she think about finding out she has a family?  What did she think of all the pictures we sent her of us?  Is someone taking good care of her while she waits?  How long is this going to take?  Can we be there before her birthday in the spring?  Are just a few of the non stop questions running around in my mind.  Someday I know we will have the answers.  Until then we wait and pray for her everyday.  God did the calling and someday I expect to find out how He was encouraging her while she waited and wondered if anyone would pick her.  Sounds crazy but I miss her and don't even know her.  That's a God thing!

Benefit Dinner

Some of our wonderful friends are hosting a benefit

chili dinner for us.

 

Everyone is invited!

The Long Silence

This blog has been silent for to long!  The craziness of summer, visiting family, and adoption paperwork/education has kept us BUSY!  We do have some exciting news.  Yesterday we received our PA (pre-approval) to adopt this sweetheart. 

 

 

 

After many name discussions and a family vote her name is.......SELAH GRACE which means "to praise, pause, reflect the grace of God".  Today we have our rough draft of our home study in our hands after 8 long months.  Hoping to get that finalized soon and then on to our dossier since we are now on a ticking 6 month deadline to have that submitted. 

 

Another exciting piece of news is we received our first grant from http://belongandbeloved.blogspot.com/

 

We are hoping to have some fundraisers coming up to help with our expenses.  If have you ideas on that or wish to help with your talents let us know.  There's also a link to our paypal account above if you would like to invest in bringing home a child. 

 

Thanks for all your support and prayers on this exciting journey with all its many twists and turns!