Ok enough suspense.........

Ok I think you all have been patient enough :-)

We have been sooo blessed

humbled

blown away by generosity......


Our benefit was awesome.  During the day we had the craft/bake sale.  It went great.  They sold food for lunch also and there was a very steady stream of people all morning and afternoon.

So many good yummy baked items!!

Sarah and Rachel...Their table had many many items gone by the end of the night.  These girls were  there around 7:30am and were there till the end of the night!!  Unbelievable :) 

My mom, sister and Nathan trying to figure out what scents and items to get from scentsy...oh and the place smelled awesome from her table!

My mom bought me one of these bracelets made by Jake's mom as a memory of the day...LOVE it!

The craft/bake sale ended at 4 so we had 1 hr to set up for the dinner.....ahhhhhh......thank goodness we started a little earlier tearing down and had a TON of people helping.  The dinner went fabulous.  We had so many people come and enjoy the wonderful, delicious spaghetti that Betty and her crew slaved over in the kitchen.... I am sooo bummed I did not get a picture of them because they made that dinner happen.  And from what I hear we served about 250 people and not once were people waiting for them to finish cooking more.  They had it down and moved people through.  For dessert there was cake with the saying that I loved...  When they asked if there was a "saying" I use with Caleb I said no but if there was it would be LOVE CONQUERS.   On the cake they wrote....Love Conquers for Caleb.  One orphan saved is one less loss.  Beautiful!  Ok enough on that here are the pictures.

Ben Gibson did GREAT at emcee-ing.  I am sooo grateful to everyone who stepped in to fill the needs that night!!!

Nathan picking the winner of the 50/50 raffle!!

I just want to say thanks again to every person who showed that night to give up support.  It means everything to us to see we have a community of people behind us cheering us on.

Oh I forgot :)

Y'all were also wondering what the total was....

$7900.00

How amazing is that!!  We made $6500 that day and $1400 in pre-sale and meat raffle tickets!!!!

It was a day that I will never forget and will hold dear to my heart forever.

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Also because we have had just a crazy week I never got to blog about our friends, the Gibson's, who met there beautiful son this friday.  I could never explain their meeting as well as Ashley does :) and the pictures say it all.  Please hop on over and let them know you are praying and supporting them.  I can not imagine what it is going to be like being so far from home and not speaking their language. 

I am sooo thrilled that they are there and holding that boy each day!!