New Stuff on blogsite

Okay, I have added ads by Google to our website to try and generate a bit more for our Adoption Fund. Hopefully they will work out as well as I hope. We will get a certain amount for each add that visitors to our site click on. They are also supposed to be relevant to our site.

January 29: Update

Since my last post, there hasn't been a whole lot of new stuff to report:

**Sold the baby blankets on Monday and deposited the check on the way home from their office. :)

**Meeting up with my dad on Saturday (while Chris is at work) morning to check prices and go over stuff for the Ham Fest on March 6. Worked on it this week and just need to get prices before figuring out how much of each item we need to purchase. They had about 800 people last year and Dad estimates around 1000 this year. I plan to get the one day food vendor permit application turned in late next week (have to wait till I get paid Monday).

**Waiting to get my passport in the mail. Hopefully it will be here soon.

**Chris has been reading a book, Parenting with Love & Logic, to fulfill this quarter's education requirement. I will read it when he is done.

**My sister is going to have a booth at the Ham Fest to sell our items (check out our store: www.landrdesigns.etsy.com ) She is also getting information about a local craft fair at a church in Sugarland on Saturday, April something. Obviously I don't have much information yet......

**Our adoption fund is just over $8000 today! Please continue to pray that we will see a steady (and large) increase. We know that God has it all under control, but it is getting harder every day to be patient.

**I posted a baseball card that a friend gave us to sell to raise funds. There are about 2 days left for the auction, and no bids yet. Check it out on eBay: 1973 Rookie Third Basemen (Rey, Hilton, Schmidt). If it doesn't sell this time, I will repost it and continue praying! I also plan to post several other items in the next week or so.

Update

It's been a while since my last post; here's what is going on right now....

1. Working on 10 blankets right now (ordered by Family to Family Adoptions to give to their new adoptive families). 6 are completed and 4 are still a work in progress. The proceeds will go into our Adoption Fund.

2. Working on menu and stuff for a concession stand at the Greater Houston Ham Fest (run by Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club) on Saturday, March 6. Our stand is called "DX Kid's Cafe" and we are hoping to bring in a fair amount of money for our Adoption Fund.

3. My students at school are now working on their sewing projects and I am really enjoying it!

4. Chris is working at Wal-Mart, with his paycheck going into our Adoption Fund. He is still a cashier, but is hoping that they will move him to another area soon.

5. My sister is donating a portion of items that she makes and sells (from today till January 31) through our Etsy shop: www.landrdesigns.etsy.com to Compassion International that will go to help those in need in Haiti. Stop by our shop and check it out.

6. I sent the paperwork yesterday to renew my passport. Pray that it gets processed quickly.


It doesn't seem like much, but we are busy!

Please keep us and our children in your prayers! We currently have just under $7,000 in our Adoption Fund. We need about $40,000 before we can send our paperwork to Russia.

Back to the blankets; they won't make themselves!!