country fair {recap}

 Not to us, LORD, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.

Psalm 115:1

The Lord blessed us with beautiful weather,

 overwhelming attendance (wish we could have gotten a head count, but the guess is 200-300),

 overwhelming positive comments and reactions to the event,

many hands that came together to make this happen,

tons of donations that we were BLESSED with,

 the opportunity to bless our friends,

and the opportunity to share His passion for adoption with our community...

To Him we give all the glory.

Pictures from the Country Fair Adoption Fundraiser...

 Andrea's photography booth was a huge hit, she was busy non-stop most of the day!

 I had NO idea the food was going to be so good!

It was definitely my favorite part.

The guys that did all the cooking could most definitely be hired at Silver Dollar City, they rocked it with their dutch ovens and skillets. 

Breakfast skillet, harvest skillet, and peach and cherry cobbler - it was seriously SOOOO good!

I think one of the things we all loved the most was to see how much fun EVERYONE was having, but especially the tons and tons of kids everywhere that were in heaven...

 And while the food was maybe the hit for the adults, this was definitely the hit for the kids...

 We had such wonderful guys driving the hay rack ride and a golf cart to take you wherever on the property you needed to go.  They met people out on the road and brought them up the drive.

 Taylor and Mason were lucky to get 2 times to play out at the "farm", once the night before while Daddy helped set up, and then for hours on Saturday when Papa and Nana brought them out.

It was super hard to get them to leave.

 We had paintball, water balloon launch, and a fun haybail maze.

It was probably the most perfect day and outcome we could have asked for.

Such neat stories from strangers who just found our location, wondered if we were the "barn sale", and donated without even coming past the welcome table.

Another family from Salina who was looking for something fun to do with their family somehow came across our event on the internet.  They absolutely LOVED it and were so happy to be a part of something so special.

It was so neat to see everyone having such a good time, and not even so much focused on the "fundraiser" part.  That was just the blessing above and beyond all the rest.

So now the question that seems to be coming up quite a bit is will we ever do it again?

Lots of requests to make it annual.

Lots of kids wondering when they can go back.

I'd love to see what God has in store...

maybe another couple adopting could benefit from it next year.

Despite the MANY pregnant mamas waddling around all over the place, and the extreme exhaustion we ALL had when it was over,

It was really too fun to never do again.

Thank you to EVERYONE who supported our event.

Follow Ryan and Christy's adoption story here.