It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and we have so much to be thankful for! God has blessed us abundantly, meeting all our needs and many more of our wants than we deserve! We are also thankful for what God hasn’t yet done for us. We are thankful for all of you who have generously given to help us meet our financial goal to have an IVF procedure. ‘Thank you’ simply doesn’t seem to be enough to truly express our gratitude for all of you!

On this $5 Friday, we still ask those of you who can to buy a puzzle piece, but most of all, please pray for us. Pray that God will have His way in all of this, in a way that only He can do it so that He will get the glory. For that we are most thankful!

Please spread the word, and encourage your friends to do the same.

Good morning everyone! It’s been a long, but good week. We’ve had revival services at church all week long, and while it lifts our spirit, it wears on us a little bit physically. We’ve enjoyed and gotten help from the preaching!

Another good thing going for us this week is the Tupperware Fundraiser. A friend of ours who sells Tupperware suggested the fundraiser and she got it all set up. 40% of purchases during this fundraiser will go toward our fund.

Speaking of our fund, it’s $5 Friday again. We’re humbly asking you to give $5 for a puzzle piece if you’re able. Share this post and the rest of our blog with your friends, and encourage them to share it with theirs. We’re nearing $8,000 raised, and it feels more and more like the goal is in sight.

Thanks most of all for your continued prayers for us. We are truly humbled and very thankful for what God has done through all of you so far.

Another week comes to a close, another Friday rolls around. Fridays are like the downhill sprint at the end of a long race of school or work. We made it to this day and are ready for it to come to an end so we can enjoy the weekend!

But to Becky and me, Fridays have taken on a new meaning for us. It’s the day we reach out to you, our loyal readers, friends and prayer warriors to help us get our story out and ask for contributions.

If you haven’t yet read our story, I encourage you to. It isn’t a very long read, and it will go a long way to let you know about our situation and our hearts’ desire.

To those of you who have contributed, we thank you so much! To those of you who are praying, we thank you! Please help us get our story out to more people!

Another week, another Friday. We’re still amazed at how God has used you all to help us in our endeavor! He has been so good to us in using your giving hearts to push us closer to our goal!

Though we’re over halfway, we still have a few thousand dollars to raise. Please share this post with your friends and encourage them to read our story. If some can give just $5, it would mean so much to us! If some are unable to give, we would certainly appreciate the prayers for us – this truly means more to us than you can ever know.

Thank you so much for your giving and your prayers!

It’s Friday again! This is the first $5 Friday we’ve had since we got the news from the Cade Foundation and their news of declining us the grant. Honestly, we were bummed. But we accept that the Lord has a ‘Greater Yes’! We’re still excited and anxious to raise the funds we need to be able to pursue IVF!

If you notice, I’ve made a small addition there on the right-hand side. You see our total goal of needing $14,030, and we’re currently at $6,665, nearly halfway there! God has been so good to us through all of you!

Please share this post with all your friends and ask them to share it with theirs. Every little bit helps, and for that we are so thankful. We are more thankful for your prayers as we continue to seek God through this whole process.

We’ve had a very busy day today, so we haven’t posted this until now. But it’s $5 Friday! Again, we ask that you share this with your friends and encourage them to share with theirs. I did some checking the other day, and with what we have received so far, we only need a little less than $1,300 IF we get the grant!

We would also like to thank all of you again for your financial help and support, and especially your prayers!

Hello everyone! Last Friday was our first $5 Friday, and we were able to raise some funds to help go toward our IVF procedure. As of this writing, we’re at $6,630 total raised. Praise the Lord!

Today is another Friday, so we’re asking you to please share this with all of your friends and have them share with their friends to spread the word.

We’re at about 2 and a half weeks until the time we find out if we’ll be awarded the grant by the Cade Foundation. If we do get it, we’ll still need a little less than $1,500 to make up the gap. We are so thankful for how God has provided through all of your generosity! We look forward to seeing what God is going to do moving forward!

If you can, we’d appreciate it if you can give just $5 today. If you’re unable, one thing you can do that will mean so much to us is to pray! Pray that God will help us to raise the funds, but most of all pray that God will have His will in our lives during this process.

While we’ve nothing new to report in the way of progress on our own new addition, I’m happy to report that my sister has had her 6th boy! Born on Monday, September 16 weighing in at 7 lbs, 8 oz, Gunner Magnum Crass is as healthy as they come. We’re excited to have another nephew, and excited for the family as they bring a new bundle of joy home!

For our part, we still need to raise some money. Since today’s $5 Friday, we’re sharing this out to all our friends and ask that you share it to your friends, and encourage them to share it as well. If all you can give is $5, that’s great! Every little bit helps, and if several of you and your friends are able to just give $5, it would go so far to help! We certainly appreciate it and pray God will bless each one of you! If you are unable to give, we ask that you please pray as we continue to raise funds to be able to have an IVF procedure!

As all of you know, we’ve sent off papers for a grant, which we’ll hear back on next month. In the meantime, we still need to raise some more funds. In the grant application, we estimated that we could raise an additional $1,500 ourselves, so that amount is being taken into account by the Cade Foundation if they choose to award the grant to us.

To help us reach that goal, we’re turning to you to help us get the word out. Each Friday, we’ll post and ‘advertise’ the opportunity to donate. Where you come in is that we ask you to share these posts in your social media outlets – Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.

We haven’t had that much to update on lately, besides patiently waiting to hear if we’ll be awarded the grant dollars or not. What we do promise though is to update with whatever we can on each Friday.

Thanks for your continued support, donations, and most of all your prayers!