Our mini fundraiser and pictures!

Here is a picture of Z & E standing infront of the Capital in Springfield while we were waiting for the authentications on all of our paperwork for our dossier! The weather was sooo hot! :)


(Side note...we got a wonderful donation from an awesome family. The Chipin needs to say "only $8,000.00 needed for Acceptance of Referral! God is sooo GOOD)

Brett calling numbers the night of our Bingo Fundraiser. He did a fantastic job!

























Our Bingo guests! Thank you to all of those who came out and supported us.



















Our mini fundraiser! We purchased this awesome Giraffe Puzzle. (When finished it will be in the shape of the giraffe) It has 700 pieces. We are selling each piece for $5.00 and then you write your name on the back. Once we have sold all the pieces we are going to put it together and frame it. Then we can see all the names of those who helped make our adoption possible. I love it!!! And we are on a good roll. Please consider buying a piece, maybe one for each member of your family to have their own name piece!!! Please share this mini fundraiser with your friends. Thanks!!!

The emotional roller coaster continues...

My emotions have been running high since yesterday (Wed) morning, actually since last Friday. Last night was our big fundraiser. We played Bingo at the VFW and people won prizes and shopped the vendors. When we first intiated this fundraiser we needed $3,400.00 to submit our dossier. Over this past week, we had two very generous donations come to us...one anonymous from someone in the Greenup area and another from a Bible study group from Newton Il. And some other donations trinkled in since we opened the fundraiser. Our good friends "The O's" had a super garage sale and felt led to give a portion of their earnings to our adoption...super sweet of them. Last night we added up all the funds we had. We went $15.49 over our goal. So I mailed the dossier to adoption agency this am w/ FedEx and it cost $11.19! Leaving us with a $4.30 balance! God is soooo good and faithful. He loves to use opportunities to show himself to us. He also uses these opportunities to lean on him instead of our own understanding. Up to this point we have somehow (God's way only) have paid out roughly $18,000.00 since January! Thats incredible! We have pinched, saved, sold, asked and we have received! We can't think God, our friends and family enough. THANK YOU!




Where are we now? Our dossier is on its way to our adoption agency. It will be double checked to make sure all the "i's and t's" are dotted and crossed. Then it will go to Washington DC and then to Ethiopia. We wait now. We wait with fingers crossed and prayers said that all the paperwork is as it should be....and nothing gets sent back to us. And we wait for that awesome little picture(s) to arrive with our child(ren)'s face.




And while we wait...we continue to raise money. We truly are financially only 1/2 way through the process even though it feels like we are much closer to the finish line. We are closer to getting our children, but there are still lots of dollars to pay out to the Ethiopian government and the adoption agency. My husband made a great chart...(Click on the picture to make it bigger)


Like I said, "about 1/2 way financially." If you feel led to give to our adoption, click on the chipin link on the right hand side and donate. The credit card people take 4%. Or you can mail it to us directly...
Brett & Micah Frey
1511 Harrison Ave
Charleston IL, 61920
Please put ADOPTION FUND in the memo.
We are sorry that we do not have a way to make your donation a tax deduction. Please continue to pray for us and the finances and for our precious children. That God may continue his faithfulness and keep them placed safely in the palm of his hand....till we can bring them home.
Its a good day! :)

Drove to Springfield today...

And got the whole dossier authenticated. We have our big fundraiser tomorrow and then (Lord willing the money comes through tomorrow night) we will mail this bad boy off to our adoption agency first thing Thursday morning! Please say a pray that the fundraiser goes well. Good night!!!!

That was fast!

We had our I600A appt on the 7th and the results came in the mail today! Wooohooo! Now we wait for the Deed to our house to arrive in the mail and off we go to get everything authenticated! I'm happy things are happening! :)

Waiting...

For a few papers to arrive...then we notorize and then we go to Springfield for authentication! :)))

Hi Ho Hi Ho...

We're off to get the last thing needed for our dossier. I600A fingerprints!!!! So excited and ready for this stage (paperwork madness) to be over! As long as the copy of our house deed shows up this week (or next) and stuff for I600A next week and then a successful fundraiser July 20th, we should meet our deadline (first week of Aug) to submit our paperwork. Yipee! Please continue to pray for our adoption. God blesses those who work hard on behalf of his precious orphans! :) And he has blessed us over and over.
PS: We made the local newspaper with our Bingo Fundraiser!