First garage sale update

We had our first garage sale this weekend and it was pretty successful! Friday it was soooo hot, I was literally dripping sweat, I think the humidity here was at 200% seriously! We asked for things to sell from friends and had a few people respond and give us stuff, I am so very thankful to everyone who gave us things every dollar puts us that much closer to getting our girl home! The total for both days was just under $800, Saturday we did not do as well due to two things...the rain and the city of Alvin. On Friday I got a written warning from a police officer for putting out signs. Apparently they have a new ordinance that you can only have one sign and it has to be in your yard!!! We had the sale at Jared's cousin Candy's house because it is on a very busy street and it is right off the main highway through town, since her house is on a corner we got to put out two signs one on each road frontage but still it wasnt near as visible as it was Friday. I still have several large baby items left and will be continuing to beg for donations of things to sell so we can do another one in October. Between the garage sale, selling things around the house, consigning kids clothes and monetary donations we have enough money to pay for the start of our home study and the fees for some of the paperwork we will have to order and have appostilled. We still have the giveway going on that has three prizes for a $10 entry. The grand prize is a guided fishing trip in Galveston Bay for 3, second prize is $100 cash and third prize is $50 cash. You can also enter for free by sharing our blog on your facebook page or blog, you must comment and tell me where you shared it to be entered either here or on my facebook page! I also have an online auction on facebook now through the 8th of this month!!! I am hoping to hear from our girl soon, we sent a letter to her last week via a missionary that visits her orphanage so I am very anxiously checking my email to see if she has responded!!! Anyway we are doing tons of things to try to raise the necessary funds as quickly as we can we also are trying to make decorative yard signs for Halloween and Christmas as a way to make some money! We are almost done with the prototypes so stay tuned for pictures!!!