Cash4shooz

So I emailed the cash4shooz lady and was updating her on us running out of room and if they would come and pick up what we have and all and she suggested a few things to try and then she also just contacted me saying she is referring me to another company who works my area and can take a smaller load of shoes!!! Yay! I am so excited! So once I hear from them I will update you all what is going to happen:)

In the meantime I have orders some silicone molds of fun shapes and themes and am going to be collecting used crayons, to make party favor shaped crayons to sell and all the profits will go toward the adoption so if you have crayons they will be greatly appreciated!! And next I will be sending out a post with an order form, if you have a party and you know the theme give me a heads up way before the party so I can get the molds and start making them:) You can email me at saltarski@comcast.net or private message me on facebook with your party info! Prices will be available shortly. Thank you.

So many shoes running out of room!

Well hello there, an update on shoes, we have 58 bags of shoes that weigh between 40 to 50 lbs a bag. So we have between 2300 to 2900 lbs of shoes

Need : 10,000 lbs of shoes
Have :   2,300 lbs of shoes
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Total : 7700lbs to go on the lesser end.

We are running out of room to store the shoes, not sure if I bit off more than I can chew on this one. I am keeping this fundraiser in my prayers to know if I should continue or put in the towel and just see if they want what I have whether I make anything off of it or not!? Because as of right now we have not raised any funds for our adoption yet, so I have been contemplating starting another one while the shoes continue to come in and just see what happens with the shoes. Thanks for all the prayers and support during this journey. God bless and have a wonderful day.

Answering the call..

Been busy the past couple weeks, house sold, moved in with parents to save up to build and in the midst of all of that we get an unexpected call.....

From....Jen Fase and she tells us that her cousins niece is pregnant and is just going to leave her baby at the hospital and she is due in may (3 months away) and if we want to adopt the baby we should figure out what we need to do, so in the meantime I talk to Justin about it as we are in the middle of moving out of our house and Justin needs a little time to think about so we prayed and thought it about it for a couple days and we came to the conclusion why not! Life was crazy but why not! So we text Jen back and told her we were wanting g to adopt the baby and after texting for a few mins she got an email saying the niece had changed her mind and was just going to let a family member adopt the baby. So we were a little sad hearted but we did have a lot going on and we were just glad that the baby was going to have a home and not just be left at the hospital. After all was said and done I looked back and thought God were you testing us to see if we would answer the call even with all the craziness we had going on!? I am glad I get to look back and say yes! Yes we did answer the call.

We are in the kv post!!

I can't believe it we got a phone call from the kV post about our shoe fundraiser and they asked us questions and asked for a few pictures and they put us on the from page!! Wow such a blessing! So now I am praying the shies start rolling in we have a lot of media out there now about the need for gently used shoes, it is going to take some time to get to the goal we need but we have the time and I know God is in control and can make it happen!

Update on shoes

Hey there shoes are walking their way in slowly......  we may have to extend the time period on this Shoe drive since we have to have at least a min. of 10,000 lbs. for them to come out and pick them up.

which is roughly 350 lawn bags filled with 25+ pairs of shoes.

so keep spreading the word and collect those shoes

thank you so much :)

Adoption #2 fundraiser shoes

Hello everyone! we have decided to start fundraising for our next adoption and once we get most of the proceeds raised we will submit our profile again! Praying for a Brother or Sister for lil Isaac!!!!

We are going to be doing a shoe drive fundraiser through Cash4shooz!

                                                                    (www.cash4shooz.com)

A little bit about Cash4shooz 

The shoes we collect for them are gently used shoes (no winter or rainboots) but any other type of shoe is great! 

Cash4shooz takes the shoes and they deliver them to third world countries, it provides jobs and gives those who have less shoes to purchase.  

 It is a win win win!

 jobs for others, shoes for less fortunate and we get paid by the lb. for shoes collected so we are going to need a whole ton of shoes!!!! so pass this on to your friends and family members and co workers get a box and let me know when you need them picked up or can get them to me we will be running this fundraiser starting NOW to Novemeber 1st!!!

I am sure everyone has leftovers from garage sales or even just a closet that has unworn shoes so dig through them and fill up a bag or box!!

Thank you so much and God bless

Staci!

One year with Isaac!

One year has now went by and our baby boy Isaac is just getting so big!!! walking now and chattering away! we thank you all so much for all the support!

Should we adopt again? can we raise that much money again? will we get picked again? these are just a few of the things going through my head since.....

We got in the mail a letter asking if we would like to update our profile so that we can adopt again, we have been praying a lot about it! we are in the middle of trying to sell our house and just life in general passing by we would love to adopt again to grow our family as long as God wanted us to do that.
 It is just hard to come up with so much money right away we would have to pay:
1. $200 to update our profile
2. 50$ about to get fingerprinted again
3. $ to get criminal check ran again
4. $6,000.00 for when we get to bring a baby home (if we get chosen) we would need this amt at hospital.
5. $6,000.00 for post placement (we would need this amount at our adoption specialist first visit after bringing baby home)
6. $2,000.00 for lawyer fees to complete the adoption

I KNOW IF GOD HAS A little one out there that is meant for our family he will make it all happen
we all truly saw that with our son Isaac he just knew and things got done in such a timely matter it truly was amazing!

well...as for right now we are just continuing to pray about this and we are asking you all to pray with and for us to know what we should do! thanks love staci.