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My kids and I are very excited to announce the winners of our Adoption Raffle! I want to thank everyone that participated; your support means so much to us! We are so excited to have been able to raise a total of $1,243 from this raffle!! Sorry if the video is a little corny (I was trying to stress just how thankful and excited I am, but not sure how well we pulled it off). We love you all and are so grateful for you in our lives! Adoption Raffle Winners from Jennie Mayes on Vimeo . The winners are: $75 Gift Card (choice of Amazon, Target, or Walmart) - Chelsea Bradley $50 Gift Card (choice of Amazon, Target, or Walmart) - Alyssa Mayer $25 Restaurant Gift Card - Pastor Ted Middleton 5x7 Photo Wood Block from Treasure & Heart Designs - Ben and Sara Pawlitschek Congratulations to all the winners! If you haven't heard from me yet, I will be contacting you soon to get you details on your prize.

I've talked to some people individually, but I wanted to give an update on our adoption status currently. We applied to an agency last April and found out in May that we were denied. The two reasons being finances and some health issues (treatable/fixable). I was devastated of course, but not completely surprised. Both of these issues we knew could be potential issues but were hoping and praying that they wouldn't be. We decided that this did not mean a closed door, just one of the many bumps along this journey. Over the past several months, the health issue has been resolved, and we have been working to save as we can and pay some bills. We plan to apply with the same agency again after our next tax return. If the second application doesn't go as planned, we are already prayerfully considering other options such as U.S. adoptions, but feel that we should continue the South Korea route unless that door becomes closed. Also in the meantime I have been working on som...