Last night April 15th was our comedy dinner fundraiser that we put on at our church for the three families who are adopting from Uganda right now. The night was wonderful! It exceeded our expectations. Thank you to all that came!
I'm gonna do my best to try to give a run through of the night. I really wished I had pictures to post it was a beautiful set-up. The evening started at six. Central BBQ donated all the food for the night...Barbeque, buns, beans, coleslaw, and chips. Chick-fil-a donated all the drinks. McAlisters donated dessert, and Starbucks donated coffee, cream, and sugar. We had a silent auction table set up in the back where not only businesses around the area gave gifts, but we also had people in our church offer up things to give as well.
Some of the items were: Sephora gift basket filled with make-up and other beauty products, 2 gift certificates for an hour long massage donated by our Chiropractor, 4 rounds of golf at Colonial golf course, Starbucks coffee mug, coffee cup, 1lb coffee, and tea, and many other awesome things. The whole night people could make bids and at the end of the night I gathered them all up and announced the winners.
Probably the best part of the night though was the comedy. It was definitely a funny night. Allison and myself opened up the night with a short comedic skit impersonating our husbands. We dressed as them and bantered back and forth on things that they poke fun about each other on like: the fantasy football season they shared in together, Jared's singing and the way he says "totally awesomeeeee" Mike's vegan diet, and the whole prostate/prostrate thing. We thought it was hilarious even though i"m confident we looked absolutely ridiculous!
Jared did a skit called the "schizophrenic preacher" I was laughing SO hard. He is the funniest person I know. He was Louis Brenton (our pastor), Joel Osteen, and Beth Moore. He wore a awful blonde wig for her, a suit for Joel, and a hockey jersey for Louis. His skit he put together was amazing!!! You just had to of been there to get the fullness of what i'm trying to so poorly explain.
We played some videos, got some crowd participation to do impersonations/ jokes etc.
Each family shared on their adoption story. And we played some videos on orphan/adoption. While we ate dinner we had Ugandan music playing..love some Uganda music :) and pictures rolling on the screen of children over there.
We had about 70 people maybe a little more come to our fundraiser. We raised over 2000 dollars. God blessed it and he is deserving of all the praise. Thank you Lord! You are so good to us!
Saturday, April 16, 2011
How it all started....Part 2
WOW it's been a long time since i've been able to get back on here. My apologizes.
So after we decided to move forward in the adoption things started moving pretty quickly. If you've ever adopted or in the process the one thing that everyone will attest to is the large amount of paperwork! You don't get off the hook when it comes to that. As we were filling it all out we had originally put that we were both open to either sex for our child. Then before we were going to send it off Jared comes to me and says how he is kinda wanting to have a boy. It didn't really surprise me I just told him "well we better decided before we send this off." As we talked about it I understood where he was coming from. When it comes down to it, it's not anything profound he just really wanted a playmate for our sweet little Micaiah =)
We are asking for a male around the age of a year in a half. With our agency we are going through the typical waiting time is 10 months to a year from the time you begin your process to the time you have your baby in your home. So if that were the case for us we will hopefully be traveling to Uganda around the end of the year! Man, just typing that gets me soooo excited!
It also means that our little Isaiah (yes that is the name we have picked for him no middle name yet) is already born living in the orphanage right now. I wonder what he is like??? What he is doing right now? We cannot wait to welcome him into our family! Ultimately we have to give all of this over to the Lord. His plans typically aren't what we make for ourselves. His ways are always BEST1
Right now we are in the homestudy process. We are getting real close to completing it. The week of April 25 we will be having our social worker come to our house for our last visit with her. During that visit Jared needs to do his individual interview and then she just needs to see the whole family and look around the house to make sure it meets certain regulations. So until that time let's just say I have got my hands full! I will have this house looking spotless...hopefully :)
That's where we are right now in a nutshell. Our children are so very excited. Addy usually mentions something about Isaiah or Uganda atleast once a day. Even now little mac will grin so big when we mention "baby brother Isaiah". Every night before bed when I tuck him in I say this.."Daddy loves you, mommy loves you, sissy loves you, brother Isaiah loves you, but most of all Jesus loves you." He always smiles so big and then claps at the end :)
So after we decided to move forward in the adoption things started moving pretty quickly. If you've ever adopted or in the process the one thing that everyone will attest to is the large amount of paperwork! You don't get off the hook when it comes to that. As we were filling it all out we had originally put that we were both open to either sex for our child. Then before we were going to send it off Jared comes to me and says how he is kinda wanting to have a boy. It didn't really surprise me I just told him "well we better decided before we send this off." As we talked about it I understood where he was coming from. When it comes down to it, it's not anything profound he just really wanted a playmate for our sweet little Micaiah =)
We are asking for a male around the age of a year in a half. With our agency we are going through the typical waiting time is 10 months to a year from the time you begin your process to the time you have your baby in your home. So if that were the case for us we will hopefully be traveling to Uganda around the end of the year! Man, just typing that gets me soooo excited!
It also means that our little Isaiah (yes that is the name we have picked for him no middle name yet) is already born living in the orphanage right now. I wonder what he is like??? What he is doing right now? We cannot wait to welcome him into our family! Ultimately we have to give all of this over to the Lord. His plans typically aren't what we make for ourselves. His ways are always BEST1
Right now we are in the homestudy process. We are getting real close to completing it. The week of April 25 we will be having our social worker come to our house for our last visit with her. During that visit Jared needs to do his individual interview and then she just needs to see the whole family and look around the house to make sure it meets certain regulations. So until that time let's just say I have got my hands full! I will have this house looking spotless...hopefully :)
That's where we are right now in a nutshell. Our children are so very excited. Addy usually mentions something about Isaiah or Uganda atleast once a day. Even now little mac will grin so big when we mention "baby brother Isaiah". Every night before bed when I tuck him in I say this.."Daddy loves you, mommy loves you, sissy loves you, brother Isaiah loves you, but most of all Jesus loves you." He always smiles so big and then claps at the end :)
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