BIG Thank You's!

Yesterday was a HUGE success. We could not of done it without all of you who helped in the many ways from donations, setting up, doing our dishes, shopping, selling, organizing, cleaning up, and most of all the prayers.

There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.

1 Corinthians 12:5-7

We would like to thank you all who have had any part in helping this Yard Sale fundraiser happen!

Now for the moment you have all been waiting for.....

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The Yard Sale Fundraiser brought in

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$2700 dollars!!!!!

We are beyond pleased. We will be able to move forward Monday with the next steps in the process. Stay tuned for the updates coming soon!

BIG THANK YOU'S AGAIN!

Most AWESOME Social Worker!

I want to tell you all that we have the most AWESOME Social Worker through our Fresno agency, Chrysalis House, Inc. She is writing our home study for us. She has done a great job. We were able to get all our visits done in a 10 day period. Then she cranked out our report and we received a rough draft a WEEK later....yes, 7 days later. Sooo quick and thorough. The report looked wonderful first time around, at least to us it did. There may be changes as far as structure and technical things but first time around was really good. We may even have it done this week. Who knows! It's all going so fast. We are very pleased. We highly recommend Chrysalis House and love our Social Worker. We would appreciate your prayers for her and her families health as if they get sick it directly affects her ability to work in general. Thank you sooo much!

Yard Sale Fundraiser

Hello family and friends!

Our Yard Sale is coming soon...Next weekend!

So far we have gotten some great donations. There's going to be some good stuff to sell. You don't want to miss it! Remember, if you come and help you get first choice of the best selection.

All of the proceeds will go towards bringing home our little orphaned, 4-month old (and oh so tiny) Micah “Samuel” from Ethiopia.

How can you help?

1. We are still collecting donations! We have a lot to raise which means we can use a lot of stuff. To donate sellable items such as furniture, household items, clothes and miscellaneous goods, please contact Monica at 289-2566 (her cell phone number) or email me at monicacoombs@sbcglobal.net . She will arrange with you to collect the donations.

2. We also need A LOT of help with everything from sorting and pricing on Thursday and Friday, to set up, selling, refreshing the tables, working the refreshment booth, and cleaning up.

3. We could use some more Easy-Up tents, Pop-up tents, and clothing racks. If you have any of these items we could borrow it would be greatly appreciated. We also need hangers for the great clothes we have.

4. Spreading the Word
- Tell your friends!
- Email people you know!
- Facebook and Tweet about it! It's easy, just link to this post.

5. PRAYER - We would love to have this fundraiser covered in prayer. We have really felt everyone's prayer along the way so far! Would you please join us in praying for this yard sale? We need prayer for...

- Good weather (Under 100 degrees...please)
- Lots of traffic (shoppers, shoppers, shoppers)
- Plenty of help
- No parking issues
- Health and energy for all of us working the sale
- Nice neighbors that don't get annoyed by our sale
- God to move in a MIGHTY way again through this fundraiser!

If you can help in any way please e-mail me (monicacoombs@sbcglobal.net) and let me know your availability.

The BIG date:

The Yard Sale will be September 26, 2009, at 7am to 12pm. The location is 4153 E. Buckingham Way, Fresno, CA 93726 (near the corner of Cedar and Ashlan)

Please call or email Monica if you have any questions. Also, if you would be interested in helping at the yard sale, volunteers are welcomed!

Please feel free to pass along this message to anyone who may be interested.

We could not do this without you all! Thank you so much!

The Coombs Family

Very productive and exciting day!

Today was the day! Today Randy and I took all the papers from our paper chase to be notarized. We packed up our box of paper and headed off. For about an hour and a half we signed, initialed, dratted (sp?), and fingerprinted our way through every paper. We are so blessed that our church supports adoption by providing notary services. We have figured out that if we had to pay for notary service it would of costs us $800-$1200 up to this point. Wow! God is so good! Once we were done with our notary friend we headed to copy and fax all the info. Randy, the paper master, got all our paper in order, copied it 4 times and then faxed the 100 pages to our agency in Florida. Whew! What a task. He did a great job keeping everything organized.

When we got our mail today we had a surprise. It felt like the reward at the end of all the hard work this morning. To our surprise we received our Passports! Yay! A bonus was also that we received our birth certificates back. We did not realize these would be coming back to us so that was exciting too. We then went and checked e-mail and the Director of our Florida agency said that the papers we faxed looked good! Yay! Whew!

We are getting closer everyday to our son! We are so excited and can hardly wait. The girls are continuing to incorporate him into our everyday life. Our youngest, Miss Creative, has quite the craft box started of all the projects she has made for him. Our oldest, Miss Logistic, is talking about what he will and will not be capable of doing when he gets here. He is so much a part of our day already. It's really cool to see how God has gone before us and is prepping the girls. Even to the point of the content of Saturday morning cartoons. This last week two of the cartoons had adoption and special needs themes in them. Randy and I were standing there watching the shows and looking at each other thinking, "This is so cool!" It is so exciting to see how God is moving before us everyday in this process.

Treasures are being sorted and prepped

For the last week we have been sorting and sifting through yard sale donations. We are going to have an awesome yard sale! There is some really fun stuff coming to us and there will be some great finds for those searching. I love to yard sale and I would camp out at this one for awhile to see all the treasures. I just wanted to give all you bargain hunters a heads up.

So mark your calendars! Saturday September 26th at 7am.

Looking forward to seeing you here!

Yard Sale

We are preparing for a HUGE yard sale. All of the proceeds will go towards bringing home our little orphaned, 4-month old (and oh so tiny) Micah “Samuel” from Ethiopia.
To donate sellable items such as furniture, household items, clothes and miscellaneous goods, please contact me at monicacoombs@sbcglobal.net . We will arrange with you to collect the donations.

The big date:
The yard sale will be September 26, 2009, at 7:00am. The location is 4153 E. Buckingham Way, Fresno, CA 93726 (near the corner of Cedar and Ashlan)

Please email Monica if you have any questions. Also, if you would be interested in helping at the yardsale, volunteers are welcomed!

Please feel free to pass along this message to anyone who may be interested.

Thank you so much!
The Coombs Family

One Month Anniversary!

One month ago today we attended the informational meeting at Chrysalis House that began this amazing crazy journey. Wow! God is so good!

Home Study visits

This week we have been able to complete our home study visits. Thursday we had our long awaited "Home Visit" that we had been preparing for for the last month. Everything went really well. The girls did a good job talking to her and I was able to do my interview without much interruption from our oldest who stayed home sick. We were all very pleased with how it went. We want to thank everyone who was praying. Now we would like to ask everyone to pray for our social worker and her family. Please pray for good health, clarity of mind and God speed for the next few weeks as she is formulating and typing our report. Pray that she will have productive days everyday for the next few weeks. We greatly appreciate it!

A Happy Birthday gift!

Last week Randy had a birthday. For dinner we brought in Panda Express, a family favorite. After we had eaten and were transitioning to opening gifts Randy opened a fortune cookie and this is what it said:

"GOOD NEWS WILL COME TO YOU FROM FAR AWAY"

We thought this was very timely and made us smile.

Happy Birthday Honey!

Our first interview and DVD's

Yesterday we had our first interview with our social worker who is doing our home study. It went very well and we like her very much. We were also very excited to be able to schedule the rest of our interviews for next week! Yay! So we have 1 week to finish getting our house organized and ready. We would appreciate your prayers for this process to go smoothly. We will keep you updated.

Earlier this week we also received two DVD's from our agency with video clips of our little boy. He is so cute! It was very special to sit down with the girls and watch video of their little brother. They asked all kinds of questions and were happy to see him.

A cute conversation

Coming home from school earlier this week the girls and I had a conversation that went like this...

Our oldest: "Mommy, is Micah (Samuel) going to be like a Christmas present?"

Me: "We don't know but we will tell you as soon as we do."

Our youngest: In a very matter of fact way she said, "I don't think he will like being in a box. I think he's going to break out of it."

It was so funny!