Back home, back to the adoption process.

Hello ALL!

So I failed miserably at blogging while I was in Africa, but honestly I didn't have too much time to. Our time was jammed packed with spending time with my family, working at the babies home and seeing Uganda. It was an amazing three weeks and I have been stretched and challenged greatly, but it's so nice to be home.

I just wanted to update you guys briefly about our adoption process. We currently have just shy of $15,000 in the bank! Which is amazing! The generosity that everyone has shown us has been such a blessing! We are getting so much closer to our goal of $35,000! Please remember that we have an ongoing fundraiser for people to buy a puzzle piece. For a minimum $5 donation to our adoption fund you can get your name on the back of a puzzle piece that will show our child the people who helped us build our family. Can you spare $5? We sure hope you would!

We are planning on doing some other fundraisers, but at this point in time our home study is at the forefront of our priorities. We start our home study TODAY!!! This is very good and exciting, but from here on out, each step that we make involves money. We will be taking our first withdrawal out of our baby fund today to pay for our home study. It costs $1800. After our home study is complete in about a month or so, we will then apply to our agency and again that costs money, so we please just encourage you to spare some change, encourage your friends to spare some change and get your names onto our puzzle! I am putting one of the puzzles together today so we can start putting everyone's name on it that we have so far.

Thank you all for blessing us and supporting us through this time in our life!

Please continue to pray for us as we go through the home study process. We are very relaxed about it knowing and trusting that God will give us the strength we need in each moment. It will be a invasion on our privacy, but we know that it is another step closer to getting our baby.

We love you all and thank you again for your love and support.

If you want to hear more about my trip to Africa, please connect with me and we can plan a time to get together, chat and maybe see pictures!