I would like to introduce everyone to my arch nemisis....

...the giant green crayon.

You may be asking yourself "geez lady....what did that huge green crayon bank ever do to you?!" and I guess that's a fair question...I mean who in their right mind gets offended by a crayon bank??

Well, here's the story behind the love/hate relationship I have with this bank.

It is the adoption fund bank.

All money that we save, and all money that we raise that does not go into paypal or our FSP ends up in this bank. Right before we wrote the $2,655 check to our agency to submit out preliminary dossier, this bank weighed about 40 pounds. I LOVED this bank that day! :) But, now we're starting all over again with a very sad, very empty crayon bank! It is sitting in my room, an ever present reminder of how much we need, and how little we have to meet those needs! It's depressing, but I firmly believe God has a plan!

Today we made $223 at our HaliHannigan's Cupcake Day!! Tomorrow we pick up the money for the wonderful people who made the event a success, so tomorrow the crayon is being fed a pretty hefty meal, but not all days are so grand. We put all of our change, and any money we can spare into the crayon, but it's a slow moving process, and it needs to be a FAST MOVING process! All I can do is pray that our fundraising picks up steam!

Tomorrow Dave and Dylan are going to walk the neighborhood attempting to sell Spaghetti Dinner tickets, and on April 25th, our coin drive ends! I'm excited to see how well that does! I'm starting to see that sometimes God moves mountains in a BIG way to get families funded, but other times, he moves mountains small boulder, by small boulder. I think that is His plan for us, because I know I could personally learn a few lessons about patience, so maybe this is God's opportunity to say "I've got this, all in MY time...not yours!" and I'm ok with that.

Please keep us in your prayers, our dossier paperwork was received, it is traveling with another family to Moscow for translation, and we should be receiving travel information soon. Prayers and support are much needed right now!!!