Reached Our Goal!!

We've done it!  Our amazing community has done it, we have reached our fundraising goal!

Here is a breakdown of how the $35,000 was reached:

An explanation of the categories.

• Our Own Funds - both paid out already and sitting in the bank from personal transfers.
• Other - Donation and Sales - means personal donations we received and also left over garage sale items that Kathleen so painstakingly sold off.  Probably should have broken this down, but it was easier not to.
• Reece's Rainbow - both the Kehoe account, and the Kellin account.
• Other Fundraisers - This includes the used book sale at Ferguson Books, the fundraisers at Tropics and Pizza Ranch and Racing2Kellin t-shirts.
• Garage Sale - includes our two small garage sales and the large one at Epiphany.
• Koins 4 Kellin - the coin jars that Rabbit has been collecting.
• Epiphany fundraiser (Light Blue) - got cut off the legend somehow. It was the meal served at our church, with matching funds from Thrivent.

Now that we have reached our goal, we will be encouraging people who still want to help to consider giving to families who have not met their goals.  I'm sure Kathleen will have some suggestions in future posts.

We will continue setting aside our own funds as we can, because we know there are still expenses that will come up right away from lost income from days off, to doctor's visits, and purchase of a larger vehicle.

We still want all of you to be part of our journey, we will continue to update the blog of course, this has not just been about a way to raise money!

We would like to thank all of you for your support, which has come in so many forms!  We hope you will continue to support us with your thoughts and prayers.  Reaching this goal is in a way bittersweet.  It is a relief to have all the needed funding in place.  But raising money gave us something we could actively do to get closer to getting Kellin home.  Now we must wait, and hope the LOA comes soon, as the wait for it has already seemed so long.