A Blessed Evening...

Wow.

What a night we had on Sunday!

We had our Adoption Benefit Dinner Sunday evening!

Man, so much prep,

So much food,

So much service,

And SO many blessings :)

Chris, my sister, and I stayed at the church

the entire day getting ready

after the service ended.

We had others come help us too and things 

came together very nicely leading up to the dinner.

Then people started showing up!

And more people...

And MORE people!!

We had to set out an extra table!

That was actually pretty exciting :)

We had one family attend that we've gotten to 
know recently who actually brought their son home over a year ago!

We also had Bob Wheatley, the VP of Compassion for Congo
show up!

Other guests were also there that don't attend our church.
We had so much support!

We had some amazing friends serve the tables

with Chris and help me in the kitchen.

People got their food,

we could hear them chattering

and laughing from the kitchen!

I was so afraid no one would want to 

participate in the dessert auction,

but I was very wrong and people really enjoyed it!

 Everything sold (over 15 desserts)!

When the time came for me and our team to take a break 

to watch the slideshow Chris put together,

I could hardly compose myself.

For the first time, I just looked around the room at the 

75+ people that were there to support us.

They were there to say they want

Tobias home.

They love us.

They love our family.

And they are standing by our side

in this crazy journey!

So all this is flooding my head

and pictures of our son's current home

start flashing on the screen!

There were pictures of little ones that will soon

be home in America with their forever families.

And then, when the picture came up to

introduce Tobias to our family and friends,

everyone cheered and clapped!!

Man, I was overwhelmed!

Chris did the slideshow to a song called

"How Wonderful the Father's Love"

Look it up, it's by Sovereign Grace.

GREAT song.

 Wonderful reminder of His unending love.

So then the night slowly came to an end.

People were talking and kids were running around all over

like they should be.

We TRIED to get our servers to leave,

but they ended up staying long after us to clean up.

I know, it's blurry, but it's cute :)

We can't express how thankful we are to all who helped.

But I must point out that our 7 friends

(my sister and brother included)

got people's orders,

their food,

their drinks,

took their plates,

asked me for all the things I kept forgetting,

and then wouldn't let us clean up.

I just came back from cleaning up what was left.

It took me a half hour.

I gotta say...we may not have LOTS 

of friends, but the ones

we have are true friends.

At the end of the night

we received close to $2,000 to bring our son home.

Can the blessings ever cease???

We have a long ways to go financially.

Probably at least $10,000 more.

And as always, we aren't anxious.

We know He'll provide.

Oh yea!

We had an ultrasound today :)

Tobi has a brother!

In summary:
We are blessed by our Father.
We are blessed with our friends.
We are so thankful for our family.
We are overwhelmed with support from our
family in Christ.
We are excited to have TWO little boys :)
And we have alot of work to do! 
Haha...
Thanks for reading!!