Garage Sale!

We had a massive garage sale last weekend! We had a smaller one earlier this year, but since then a bunch of families have had stuff they wanted to donate to us for another sale to help raise money for our adoption. We started collecting donations a couple of months ago and set last weekend as the date for our sale. We had so much stuff!! It was really crazy. It started to take over our garage and I wondered how I would ever begin to go through all of it and sort it. Here is a picture of our garage pre-sorting:

Then I sorted it and it was still a lot! When I went through it all, and started to organize, it grew. I had to move a bunch inside the house and then even out onto the back porch!

We have had beautiful weather this spring and then the weekend we were planning on having the sale, there were crazy high rain chances! ugh. We debated on and off what to do and landed on deciding to still have it. It stormed very hard all night Thursday night but by Friday morning it was starting to taper off. We started with only what we had in the garage but were eventually able to pull everything out on the driveway. Thankfully - it was so much!

We had so many sweet friends help us with the sale! Not only did over a dozen families donate items for the sale, but I had help the week of and the two days of the sale! Michelle, Jennifer Watson, and Mary Margaret even came over Friday morning at 6am to help us get set up! Those are good friends! Stephanie came and helped later in the day on Saturday and Michelle was there the whole time both days. We are so thankful for sweet friends who sacrifice so much for us!

The girls did GREAT both days! They slept late in the mornings, then when they woke up they alternated between playing outside and watching movies inside. Kendall felt big that she was able to climb this ladder. Check out her crown, pajamas, and rain boots. She was stylin! :)

Cooper was in heaven. She just wandered around, would find things to play with and was just busy the whole time. We caught this picture of her playing with an elmo toy that was for sale, sitting on a lid to one of the totes of clothes. She is so cute.

They explored the puddles and checked out all the worms.

Molly did well, too. She would find someplace out of the way to curl up and sleep. This was a favorite spot - one of the totes of baby clothes. People would walk by and not realize she was there and then notice her all of the sudden and just laugh!

Check out this good deal! :) She really was such a good girl and had so much fun.

Molly at the end of the day! She was worn out and so were we!

We've never done a two day sale before and it was exhausting. It was very successful, though! We made $1,150!! Totally worth all the hard work. We're so thankful for all the friends who helped and who donated their stuff. Garage sale=success!