A Match.... A Date.... A Gift...

Good news comes in Three's!

FIRST - 

We met our matching grant! Your generous donations over last last 2 weeks turned our matching donors $2500 into double that... $5000! We still need about $3000 more to cover the massive travel costs to get all 3 children from their region to the Capitol (a 15 hour train ride or a 2 hour ride on a tiny plane, not sure which option scares me more!) then stay in Capitol for visa processing and medical/TB testing and then ultimately fly home. Our family sponsorship fund is still up and running to the right!

SECOND -

We have a date to go to the capital city of our children's country and ask for their referral!

Paul and I are both traveling initially and he will leave after our Court date and will hopefully be home by Thanksgiving, while I will stay for the mandatory 10 day wait for the decree to become final and should be able to bring the children home by Christmas!

THIRD -

We were blessed to receive new pictures of our 2 youngest children which we cannot share publicly just yet...

But here is a little something to say THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts. <3

Today would have been...

Henry's 3rd Birthday.

Mommy loves you buddy.

Simplified Symphony!!!

So a few people mentioned they wanted to donate on our last BIG PUSH to fundraise....

but they found all the giveaways and options a big confusing...

you know what?

Me too. And I even had my coffee :-)

So I am going to make this simple....

GO HERE:

http://reecesrainbow.org/57151/sponsordobrovits-2

and donate $10 or more to our TAX DEDUCTIBLE adoption fund.....

and you will automatically be entered to WIN ALL THE PRIZES listed at www.covenantbuilders.blogspot.com (including a 2nd gen iPad and Otterbox donated in honor of my Henry! AND a $500 Visa Gift Card AND a Canon Power Shot Digital Camera AND and iPad Mini AND your choice of a Kindle Fire/Nintendo 3DS AND a whole bunch more gift cards, gorgeous art prints, etc.

If you can SHARE on your blog or FB just leave a comment below and I will make sure you get an entry (everyone who has shared up until now HAS been entered also)!!!!

Simple, right!

We have had $770 since the Symphony began on Friday and we need $1,730 more to meet our matching grant of $2500!!!

We hope to have a travel date to receive our childrens' referral very soon and bring them home before Christmas!!

We could not do this without all of you!!! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!!

Please join us at the Symphony!!

First, please go to:

www.covenantbuilders.blogspot.com

The amazing Julia has put together an amazing fundraising giveaway for us...

And a few other families...

And a few precious boys...

And I am in tears that the grand prize,

an iPad, was donated in honor of Henry!!!

PLEASE this Friday ---

Pick a boy...

Pick a family...

Share Julia's post...

And enjoy the beautiful music of the celestial conductor as played by wonderful people LIKE YOU who are helping there be fewer orphans and more perfect melodies in this world!!

It's Henry Day!!

2 years ago today, the afternoon of September 9, we brought Henry home to our entire family.

So many joys...

So much sorrow...

So like all of life.

Today lets celebrate the joy.

And lets do it with french fries.

French fries were the first solid food Henry would eat and we think it is because he could feed himself (rather than having food shoved down his throat which would make him aspirate due to his cleft palate).

Today, I am getting my children fries. Big bunches of fries.

And we will eat them...

and maybe cry just a little bit...

but we will remember our little guy who had 14 months of fries and love.