February Fundraising Highlights!!!
February is love month!! Especially for our family! Its not only Valentines Day, its also our wedding Anniversary, (as well as my parents because we share the same day), and our third son's birthday! We have a lot of fun this month! Its a wonderful way to get through Michigan's tough and long winters. What a better time to launch a few more fundraisers when all I can think of is wanting to get closer to loving our daughter by holding her in our arms!
Mike and I will be married for 14 years on the 23rd! We are so grateful that God brought us together and is continuing to grow within us a strong love relationship, a ever growing bond through our relationship with Christ as well as a deep desire to spend our life doing the things of the Lord!! We are deeply passionate about laying down our own agendas for Gods. This is sometimes a daily battle with our own selfish desires, but we find it to be where the real joy is found! Having a large family is one of those areas that we both feel God has led us in. We know that God has opened up the borders of our hearts and home to make room for a daughter and even her family through the redemptive process of adoption! God has shown us the ultimate example as He has adopted us into His family, not by anything we have done, but by His own desire to be family!
We currently find ourselves in "the great wait" I'm calling it. Where you have your phone glued to you waiting for that email, that text, or that phone call from your adoption consultant saying that a agency wants to show our profile book to a expecting Mom! I'm embarrassed to admit how many times I check my phone to make sure I haven't missed anything! Believe it or not, recently I had my phone on silent for 3 hours accidentally and missed a opportunity for our profile to be shown. Talk about an emotional insanity for the next few days. I will never allow that to happen again! The wonderful thing is God is writing her story and ours. He will not allow us to not find each other. This is a totally supernatural situation that we find ourselves in, so I know that God is in full control! As hard as this is, I am so very grateful that He is, because I would mess it up with my impatience and short sightedness. We will be connected with the precious Birth Mom that God already has in mind, and one day hopefully sooner than later meet and hold our daughter in our arms!
We are trusting God for creative ways to raise our financial budget for our adoption. We are so very grateful for all the support we have already received! We cannot travel this road alone! Like I say all the time, it will take a village to bring our daughter home! Would you be willing to be a part of that village? Every prayer said, every dollar given is building that village!
This month we want to highlight some incredible opportunities to help us raise our budget through 4 different opportunities! These are four awesome way to SHOP FOR A CAUSE!!
1. First we are selling T-shirts!!
Fund The Nations did a incredible job helping us with the design!
You can purchase a shirt for $20, and a percentage of every shirt purchased goes towards our adoption! The greater the number of shirts sold - the greater the percentage! These are unisex Short Sleeve Jersey T-shirts. They are nice and soft:)
TO ORDER, email me at
You can pay via Pay Pal securely at
mikeswaggs@gmail.com. Please make sure to click Friends and Family so we do not get charged.
You can also send us check or cash through snail mail:)
Please just email us with info and ask us for our address.
Our favorite part of this shirt is the phrase "FAITH SAYS YES"! This is the theme of our hearts as we began this adoption journey! There is also a red heart on MICHIGAN because this is where our daughter will come home:)
2. Thirty- One Gifts ~ Online Adoption Fundraiser !!!!
We are excited to share a great fundraiser to help fund our adoption process. From February 1st-February 15th an online fundraiser will take place with Thirty One Gifts. This faith based company was founded in 2005 and offers a wide variety of purses, totes, home organization and now much more! Their products now include pillows, home decor, jewelry, and fun everyday storage solutions! Most products can be personalized as well!
Heather Ricca, a consultant for the company, will be helping with the fundraiser and able to answer all your questions. We will also have a Facebook group that will be posted in daily, to give updates on the fundraiser, auction off products, great product demos, games, and more! If you would like to join the group, let me know and I will add you to the fun. The following is a direct link where you can browse the online catalog and see the prints and products up close starting February 1st!
3. Love You Beary Much! Adoption Auction
This auction will take place on our FACEBOOK FAMILY ADOPTION PAGE: Swaggertys are Growing by Two Feet Saying Yes to Adoption.
https://www.facebook.com/Swaggertysaregrowingbytwofeet/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
The Auction will be live Thursday February 4th at 8pm EST.
Featuring Scenty's Warmer of the Month "Be Mine" with a Love you Berry Much Bar of wax to melt in it! Lovey the Bear Scentsy Buddy that is Sold Out with a Love you Berry Much Scent Pak( when you place inside the stuffed animal it makes any room that its in smell amazing!), Valentines Day pencils, Valentines Day stickers, Heart Notecards, Valentines Paper Straws, a Fun Pen, Red/White Twine, Decorative pink arrow Clothespins, Sweet Tarts Lip Balm, & and a Strawberry Cheesecake Lindt Chocolate Bar.
Retail value: $82
Starting Bid: $50
Only ship in the USA.
Here's a snapshot of the Warmer and the Buddy in the Auction Bundle!
This auction is ending on the 5th of Feb, so it will be able to be delivered to the winner in plenty of time for YOUR VALENTINE!!
4. Adoption Puzzle Fundraiser
400 pieces are SPONSORED!!! That means 600 to go!!
We are at a grand total of 10,000 as of now! This money represents puzzle pieces sponsored and money raised through past fundraising opportunities. We are so grateful and so humbled!
We are so excited about the PUZZLE FUNDRAISER! The symbolism is just so beautiful! This is how it works:
1. We bought a 1,000 piece puzzle that will fit perfectly into her bedroom decor!
2. Individuals can "sponsor" a piece of the puzzle by making a donation toward the adoption. As each sponsor donates, their name is written on the back of a puzzle piece.
3. In the end it will serve as the most precious visual reminder to our daughter and us for the rest of our lives who was a piece of her puzzle bringing her home to us!
4. When all the pieces have been sponsored we will put it together with the boys and have it framed with glass on both sides and hang it in her bedroom. She can look at the back and see the name of everyone who donated and was a huge part of making it possible to be part of our forever family!
5. We are selling each piece for $20 dollars. You can choose to buy 1,2,3 or 10! There is no limit!
6. If you do not want to donate online you can email me at mrsswaggs@gmail.com for our address and send a check in the mail.
7. THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE!
DONATE ONLINE BELOW on OUR YOUCARING PAGE.
THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO STOP BY AND READ!!!
