~Welcome to the story of our journey to save another Eastern European princess with down syndrome and an older child! In 2010, we traveled half way around the world to adopt a twenty month old (now three years old) precious girl with down syndrome, Gabby. Now, less than two years later, we are on a mission to adopt another precious little girl that is in the same orphanage Gabby was in, Ava. Not only Ava, but yes....one more "Elaine". That means we are trying to adopt two more children!!!! If you are unaware of the situation in most, if not all Eastern European countries, please continue to read. In these countries children with down syndrome and special needs are most often placed in orphanages and if not adopted by the age of four or five (depending on circumstance), they are transferred to institutions where the likely-hood of them ever seeing outside of the institution walls remain slim to none. Many will live very short lives due to lack of appropriate care. Please don't allow this to happen to our sweet Ava! "Elaine" was fortunate enough to escape a very bad institution but nonetheless is in an institution and is an older child whose chances of coming home if we can't adopt her are not good. Having adopted and fully funding ourselves the previous adoption such a short time ago, we will need all of the help we can get to reunite these two angels and bring their big sister home. We utilized all extra resources with our first adoption and so fundraising is essential with this adoption. Whether it be from your prayers, helping to fundraise, buying from fundraisers, donations, etc...your help is much appreciated and is very much needed in order to make this dream a reality. Thank you so much for following our journey~

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

~Rada Cutlery Fundraiser~

I'm so excited about this our new fundraiser to help bring Ava home!  The fundraiser is through Rada Cutlery. They have a huge selection of kitchen ware, candles, cookbooks, men's sporting knives, etc. There is something for everybody. We recieve 40% of the proceeds towards Ava's adoption! With mother's day around the corner,this would be the perfect fundraiser to purchase from...sure to impress your mom, grandmother,wife, anyone for that matter.

The link to our fundraiser is:

http://helpourfundraiser.com

The internet ordering number is 503880

The password is avapreslei

THANK YOU All so much.


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  1. Hope HarderApril 25, 2012 at 10:39 PM

    Something I can use. Ordered. Thanks : )

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  2. SylviaApril 25, 2012 at 11:25 PM

    THANK YOU HOPE! Your order was greatly appreciated. If you would, please pass the word along. I'll have this going throughout the entire adoption :)

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