Hello everyone,
This week has been full of surprises and blessing. My love language is acts of service and when you read what our friends have done for us this week you will see why my heart is exploding with love this morning!
Thursday we picked up our homestudy. It was one of the last things we needed for our dossier. However we found out that our social worker forgot one document. She is on vacation this week and they are closed today so hopefully on Wednesday we will be able to get that going so our dossier can get to Haiti.
Friday morning was our first day of our garage sale fundraiser. It was a HOT day but that did NOT stop people from flooding our yard. We made $900 in one day! It was crazy. Saturday was not nearly as busy but in the end we made about $300. We had severe weather for about an hour in the afternoon. Thankfully my mom lives in MN and called us about an hour before it hit and told us "GET EVERYTHING INSIDE!" We started working hard to move everything into the garage and within minutes of tarping what wouldn't fit in the garage the winds came and the rain flooded the streets. We had some wet clothes that we had to hang to dry but other than that things went back to normal after a few hours. We met lots of great people over the weekend that came to the sale and were blessed by great friends who watched kiddos and helped sort and fold and manage the huge crowds. Thank-you to all of our friends and family who donated items and helped this weekend to make this such a huge success! I wonder who next year's garage sale will be for?????
On Friday morning we recieved a call from our social worker from our agency that works with our kids. She said that the orphange had a change in policy and that they wanted to send us our official referral (which includes all the info they have on the kids) NOW so that they can start processing paperwork while our dossier is on it's way to Haiti. So that afternoon we recieved and additional photo of the children and all of the history that is available. It was a total surprise and so exciting to see things getting more official!
On Monday morning I had lot of questions for the kid's social worker. Our main one was when could we go see them! It is very likely that we can go towards the end of October to meet them! No words to express how exciting that was to have dates for the family bonding weekend that they have scheduled and that we may get to go!
On Monday night we had our Pizza Ranch Fundraiser. It was a huge success! We raised over $550 in only 3 hours! It was so much fun to serve people and to share our story. It was such a fun night that was only made possible by Liz Blier, Eli Hammer, Brian King, Steven Vancourt, Randi Johnson, Michelle Baxter and Kara and Chris Wensink who watched our kids for us! Thanks so much you guys!
Then we came home exhaused after our whirlwind weekend to find another NEW photo of Yoldine and Vladimy from our social worker. Vladimy has a huge Incredible Hulk expression/smile on his face. I think he will give Tessa a run for her money on the "I want to be the center of attention" front. He is definatly an extrovert :) Yoldine looks like a girly girl in this photo. She is wearing a cute dress that she is holding out like she is doing a curtsy and has her head tilted with kind of a sweet, shy smile that that you think of when you think of sweet little girls.
So today I will be tracking down (hopefully) the last document that I need for our dossier, and getting ALL the paperwork out that needs to go out! Otherwise tomorrow things will go out.
So that is all of our news and updates for the moment. Please be praying for our process to go quickly and for the kids to be safe and peaceful hearts for us as we wait.
We love you all and thank-you for all that you are doing to help us bring our kiddos home!
With much love,
The Kanz Family
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