TULA BABY CARRIER FUNDRAISER!

Operation Bring Nikolai Home is a go! 

Since getting the news that we did, indeed, get our dossier deadline extension *insert happy dance*, we have been brainstorming fundraiser ideas to raise the money needed for our Dossier, which is where we got this idea!  Now, we're not the first to do a fundraiser of this type, but it looks promising so we're gonna give it a shot! :) 

SO! We're going to have a giveaway, and the prize will be...*drum roll* A Grey & White Chevron Tula Standard Baby Carrier!  These retail at around $150, but you could win this carrier for $10!  Great deal, right?  

How It Works: 

Entries are $10 each.  

A $10 donation to our Youcaring (located at the bottom of this post, as well as the right hand side of the blog) will get you 1 entry into this giveaway. 

So if you were to donate $50 you would be given 5 entries.

We will not draw a winner for this carrier until we reach or exceed $500. (Our Youcaring will read $7,328)

This means we will need at least 50 people to donate $10, or people to purchase multiple entries.

Once we reach $500 we will give a "grace period" for a few days to allow other entries to be bought.

You can purchase as many or as little entries as you would like, naturally the more entries you purchase, the greater your chance at winning the carrier will be.

When you enter this giveaway you will be supporting our adoption of Nikolai, and we're so grateful for that!  We still need $2,767 to reach our Dossier goal, before the end of November, so we're praying that this fundraiser is a success, as it will help cover some of that $2767.

Once we've reach and/or exceeded $500 we will draw winners using Random.org.
Please be sure to include your email with your donation, we will be using email to contact the winner! :)

You can receive one free entry if you share this fundraiser on your Facebook.  You must comment on this blog post stating that you shared this post, or it will not count as a free entry. 

Please, share with your friends and family!  Encourage them to enter, and participate! 

We are so grateful for all of you!  Thank you, for playing a part in our journey! :) 

More Fund-Raising: Yard Sale

This past weekend we held a yard sale to raise more funds, I think the total amount we made was $130.  So many local "friends" took the time to donate their unwanted clutter to our yard sale, and though I(Alyssa) personally am not a fan of yard sales, we got up at 6am (well mom and dad got up at 5am), poured our coffee and got to work!  We sold quite a bit of the stuff and had a wonderful morning sitting outside chatting with each other, as well as friends that stopped by to say 'Hello!'.

God has blessed us immensely thus far into our adoption, and we're all so anxious to see Him provide throughout the rest of our adoption.  I didn't take many pictures on Saturday, but I did snap a few so that you all could see our efforts. :)

Updates Are Fun

Writers block...it's the worst.  I (Alyssa) have tried to write this post about 5 times now...but I open the blank page to write and all creativity and inspiration escapes me.  It's really unfortunate, but here I am tackling this much needed update!

Our Heart Attack For Charlie, which can be found over here on my blog, has claimed the walls of our dinning room, part of our kitchen, and a section of our formal living room.  There are 1,203 hearts on our walls, and that isn't even all of them!  We have more hearts to cut out, write on, and hang up, which will probably happen this weekend.  I snapped some pictures yesterday of our walls, I apologize for the orange-ish tint on the photos (artificial lighting, yuck!) but these photos show case the unconditional love that we have received from each and everyone of you who have donated!  God has blessed my family with an extremely generous support group, we wouldn't be able to bring Nikolai home (we chose a name did you miss the brief post? Name Reveal) without all of you!

Beautiful right?  Speaking of beautiful, we have bracelets!  Through the Apparent Project we have (or better yet 'had' we've sold a few) 150 bracelets handmade by Haitian mothers and fathers working to provide for their families.  These are crafted out of cereal boxes and did I mention that they're gorgeous?  We are selling these for $10 + $1 shipping (if you're not local), $5 goes to a family in Haiti, the other $5 goes towards our adoption of Nikolai.  Supporting two awesome causes, plus you get a stylin, handmade bracelet.  I say it's worth the purchase! ;)  If you're interested in buying one of these bracelets you can email me: AlyssaGoodhue@hotmail.com and I'll help you buy one (or two, maybe seven?).

We ALSO have t-shirts (we're selling so many things, I know, I know), which support our adoption of Nikolai!  They are a very beautiful blue, just in time for spring! ;)  The shirts read '147 Million, Minus One'  referencing the 147 Million orphans in the world and the one less orphan that there will be when Nikolai comes home forever.  These shirts are available through the weekend, this fundraiser ends on Monday (4/6/2015)!  https://www.bonfirefunds.com/147-million-minus-one

I'm probably forgetting something, but for now I'm gonna say that this is all! Nikolai says thank you, and so do we.  You all are such a blessing.