Day 77 waiting for LOA

I thought I would pop in and tell you all why my ticker has moved so much. This morning Patrick checked our account and he could not believe his eyes. There was a miracle .... there was a$5,000 deposit! Yes that is right $5,000 that had been transferred into our account over night. After some searching we found out that Popsi and NaiNai (my parents) had transferred the money to us. We were elated! But I will tell you how the Lord is the master Conductor. Not even an hour after we found the money, we got the call! Yes, our LOA is on the Fed-Ex truck headed to our door step first thing in the morning. I am so excited! As of Monday our agency said they knew it would not be coming this week and that they didn't really expect it until the end of this month. LOL, my parents didn't know any of this. Isn't it awesome how the Lord told them to give us the money right when He did. Not a day early or late. Yes, I will continue to sing HIS praises because I serve the most loving and wonderful Savior. Thanks Mom and Dad for listening to His voice right when you did.

Eliana we are coming baby girl. More detail on travel to come. We are going to be fighting the Trade Fair, so it is all in the timing and the cost of travel. If you take a gander over at my sidebar there is someone special wanting to thank you all for your prayers and help to get her home!

Email Problems

Late last night I realized I was having email problems. It is highly unusual to not have any emails all night. Well, after IMing with a friend she said she had emailed a couple of times and then reality set it -- my lifeline was broken. It seems to be back up and running this morning, but if you emailed yesterday chances are I did not get it. I thought maybe they would come rushing in, but have not as of yet. If you wrote yesterday please send it again. Thanks.

Chapman Interview

I'm really not blogging, but I wanted everyone to be able to watch the Chapman interview from this morning. Copy and past this into your browser or click HERE.

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5524419


Please continue to pray for the Chapman's as they heal.

A Break

I am going to take a break from blogging. I have not been really good at reading, posting or really anything lately. I am going to focus on getting Eliana home and give my husband some extra attention before we are distracted with Eliana. I have so much stuff to do to prepare for travel that I just keep putting off and I am going to hit the sewing hard (I hope) to continue raising money to bring Eliana home. I don't know how long the break will be...it might be a week or it might be a month or more. I will let you all know when we get our LOA and let you know if we will get to travel before November, but other than that I will be silent. I will still be trying to keep up on reading a few blogs, but I more than likely will not be doing a lot of commenting.

If you or anyone you know would like to purchase little girl clothes keep an eye on Miao's Cottage for new creations. If you would like to be emailed when something new is posted please leave me a comment or email me.

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Enjoy the rest of your summer if I don't re-emerge before fall.

New Outfit

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Drum Roll Please.

First off I want to say THANK YOU to everyone who joined the raffle. We raised $420 which will cover the cost of our visas and have almost enough left over for the re-fingerprint fees. :-) We are so grateful. So on to what you really want to know ... While Patrick was home at lunch we decided to do the raffle drawing. I have been so excited to see who would win and I really could not believe my eyes when Patrick pulled out the winner. Okay, I'm going to mess with you a bit.

The second place winner of the No Slippy Hair Clippy is Steffie from 'Never Too Many'!

And....without further ado...

The Grand Prize winner is....Paula from 'The Baby Journals'!! Since Paula recently has had her blog redesigned, AND the fact that she has a new little one coming home to them in a month or so, she has chosen the carseat as her prize.

I'm sorry there is no video of the drawing (still trying to figure out how to put video from our camera on my blog). Instead, here are some pictures of the drawing.

Congratulations Paula and Steffie! Thank you all for your entries and support, I wish I had prizes for all the entries we received.