Last day of Giveaway!

This is it! Last day to enter the Kindle Fire Giveaway! The cut off to enter is midnight tonight. You can donate to Joshua's grant--tax deductable! Or donate using the chip-in. Either way, it all goes to help us bring home our sweet Joshua. You can get a free entry by sharing on your Face book page or blogging about our giveaway. Read here for all the giveaway details:

http://hopkinsfamilyadoption.blogspot.com/2012/05/kindle-fire-giveaway.html

Also--there will be a few additional **suprize** winners that will be announced on Monday as well! :)

Help us make this fundraiser as successful as possible!!

Blessing to you all!

One more week to go!

This is the final week for our Kindle Fire giveaway!! If you have been thinking about entering, but you have not gotten around to it--well, you had better do it now! We need everyone to share it with others on Facebook and your blogs (you get a free entry!), and to donate. Really, $10 can make a big difference, if enough people pitch in! Donations to Joshua's grant through Reece's Rainbow are tax-deductible, or you can donate through the Chip In and the funds will go directly to us. How great is that?! We are hoping that we will have travel news in about a week--maybe we will get to have that exciting news along with announcing winners! Wouldn't that be a fun announcement! Since it is peak travel time right now, our air fare is looking like it is going to be more than we were anticipating. It would be such a blessing to us if we knew there was enough money in Joshua's grant to fund our first trip--one less thing to worry about. Please consider being a part of our Journey to Joshua!

Go here for all the details of the giveaway:

http://hopkinsfamilyadoption.blogspot.com/2012/05/kindle-fire-giveaway.html

Kindle Fire Giveaway--10 more days!

Ten more days to enter in the Kindle Fire giveaway! We are hoping that our grant for Joshua will get to the $5,000 mark with this giveaway. We have $550 left to go. Each $10 can add up and make a difference! Please consider this opportunity to help us bring Joshua home, and at the same time, you have a chance at willing some really great prizes! See here for details:

http://hopkinsfamilyadoption.blogspot.com/2012/05/kindle-fire-giveaway.html

So, just the other night, I was adding up what the total cost for the adoption was going to be and--yikes!! Looks like it is going to be quite a bit more than we were expecting. Part of this is because airfare is really high right now, and so hopefully our 2nd and 3rd trips will be more reasonable as far as plane tickets.

We are officially registered and waiting out the 10 day period as the officials in Joshua's country go over all our paperwork and decide if they need any additional information. We are praying that they will be satisfied with what they have and that they would then invite us to travel!

15 Days, Fingerprints and a Llittle Family Fun!

It is 15 days into the month of June. We are 15 days into our Kindle Fire giveaway. 15 days left to join in! So far we have had a couple of generous donations, lots of shares on Facebook, and a couple of blog links. We have a long way to go to make our goal for this fundraiser, but it is so very possible! We are hoping and praying that we will be making plans soon for buying visas and plane tickets to meet our precious boy. Please help our Joshua grant to grow as we move closer to the time that we will be traveling to meet him! Your donation of $10 really can make a big difference! For all the details for the giveaway, please see here:

http://hopkinsfamilyadoption.blogspot.com/2012/05/kindle-fire-giveaway.html

Yesterday morning we had to be in Fargo, ND to be fingerprinted by the FBI for immigration. We have submitted all the paperwork, so now we wait for the approval letter from Homeland Security, allowing us to bring Joshua into our country. We need to have this approval before we have our court date in Joshua's country, but not before our first trip to meet him.

Since we had to be in Fargo bright and early, we drove down the night before (we are about 3 hours away). Our fingerprinting appointment went well and we were in and out of the office quickly. So we took the kids to the Red River Zoo where we spent the rest of the of the beautiful morning. Freddie had so much fun seeing the animals. He especially loved the armadillo, the meercats, and the peacocks with their little chicks. Valerie had fun pushing around her stroller, and they both enjoyed a ride on the carousel.