Nervous!

A few weeks ago we heard from our agency that the current wait was 6 months. If this is the case we could be hearing something within the next month. Although this is what we have waited for for 20 months now, the reality makes us nervous. We ask that you partner with us as we pray that the Lord will provide and that we will trust Him completely!

More money yet totally worth it!!

We got an email from our agency today that gave us an incredible opportunity. We have the option to pay only $400.00 to receive a video of our child's story. What will happen is an investigator will go to Ethiopia and video the facts of our child's life history. They will interview any birth relatives that our child may have. If our child was abandoned they will interview any witnesses, the person who found our child and the police officer who prepared the report.
When we read this email we were overjoyed to think that one day we would be able to share with our child on video his/her life story from the beginning. Praise the LORD!!!

Still waiting..

All we are doing as far as adoption goes is......waiting!!

a long needed update..

Sorry that I have been so lazy at updating our blog. My excuse is that we moved and had a baby=) But to update everyone on our adoption process:
We are simply waiting. We have been told that the current wait is around 5 months which means we could expect a referral around the first of the year. We are hopeful, yet realize that things could change at any time.
We are also going to update our home study on Tuesday, Oct. 4, which will add our new place and our new son!
Please continue to pray for our family as we wait for yet another addition and please continue to pray for the funds to finish the process out!
We are thankful for you guys!!!

WOW!!

It is official!! All of our stuff is in Ethiopia and we are waiting for our paperwork to be approved in country then the placement process begins. We have been told this process could take 4-5 months yet we are unsure. We know that the country is in its rainy season which could delay things some. We also want to let you guys know a few details of this process. It seems like we are asked often about the sex and age range. We originally were adopting from Rwanda and felt peace about pursing a girl. When Rwanda closed and we switched to Ethiopia we no longer felt peace pursing a girl so we decided to purse either sex. That means we could get a boy or a girl. Also the age range that we desire is 0-24 months. This means that upon the time of referral the child could be anywhere between birth and 2 years old. We are excited about this time in our lives and are thankful for the many prayers, encouragement and financial contributions you guys have made over the past 16 months!! We ask that you continue to pray for our Ethiopian baby, or as Jackson calls him/her, Best Buddy Clark. Also pray that the Lord would provide each step of the way!

OUR FINGERPRINTS CAME BACK!!!

Friday, July 22nd, we received our USCIS approval!! We are 100% done with our paperwork!! Now for the waiting game!!=)

our big mail off!

Tuesday of this week we were able to send off our last bit of paper work to our agency. We are only waiting on our fingerprints at this point! We are super excited and super nervous that we have FINALLY made it to this point! It has taken us over a year to get all this paper work together! I am not sure that it should take this long but with the switch of countries, a move and a baby on the way things seemed to get put on delay! We ask that you join us in prayer as we wait to be placed with our child and continue to save/raise the last bit of money needed to finish this process!