Lifted Out Of The Water

June 6th and 7th we will be having a garage sale/auction in North Bend to help raise money to fund our adoption. Please contact us if you have any items you wish to donate to the sale. These can be items you are purging from your home or new items too! We appreciate anything you are willing to donate. Thank you for thinking of us as you spring clean! :) Please continue to pray for India and orphans worldwide. God bless!

Please say a prayer that our dossier makes it safely to our agency in Virginia. It feels so good to have all that paperwork done, but very scary to let it all out of our sight. Now we are just focusing on the twins and praying He continues to direct us with our adoption. We are feeling so blessed that God chose to have us build our family through conception and adoption. So amazing to experience them both at the same time. Our hearts are so full! Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." - Matthew 19:14

Hooray! We received our USCIS approval which was the last piece of our dossier. We are going to send that off to be apostilled and then we can mail our whole dossier (every single paper we have collected and worked on since AUGUST) to our agency on the East Coast. Prayers in advance that our dossier safely makes it to its destination please. We have been asked a few times how the twins will affect the adoption timeline. Basically we will not be getting a referral until after the twins are born. We will need to update our home study to show we are stable with the new little additions. This is done when the twins are between 3 and 6 months old. After the home study update is complete, we can be taken off "hold" and open to receive a referral again. The referral process can take months or even years. After we accept a referral it typically takes 9 months to a year until we are cleared to travel and bring our sweet girl home. SO, to put that simply, we are still a few years awa...

Last Thursday was a very long but productive day! We left at 4am and traveled up to Portland for our 9am fingerprinting appointment, then headed back down to Salem to get out dossier apostilled (authenticated). Oh and we stopped at BabiesRus to find carseats for the twins too! What a day, what a day! Now we are just waiting for our USCIS approval and the dossier is COMPLETE! Hooray! Then we will just wait for that wonderful day when we receive our little girl's picture….good thing we have twins to keep us busy while we wait! :) Thank you for your continued prayer.

Good news! We have been submitted into the CARA (Central Adoption Resource Authority) database!  Which means we can now be matched with a child! This process can take a few months or a few years (so don't hold your breath quite yet). We are feeling so blessed and cannot wait to see God's timing unfold. Please continue to pray for CARA and India. As of now, agencies are only able to see an EXTREMELY small percentage of children. This list is rotated every month, but 80% of the children on the list tend to already be adopted or have already been viewed in previous months. These issues have been brought to CARA's attention, but changes still need to be made. Pray for quick and positive changes, proper training, and a more effective referral process. Thank you for your prayers and support!

We have sent off our I-800a Form to the U.S. Customs and Immigrations! This may not make much sense to those outside the adoption community, but basically the approval of this form and our fingerprints deem us suitable to adopt internationally. A big MUST! One of the last pieces to our puzzle! Once we get this form approved (which can take up to 2 months) we can send in our dossier and begin our wait! Please pray that this form is properly received, processed, and approved. Please also continue to pray for India, its adoption procedures, and our future baby. Thank you for your love and support!

My wonderful co-workers have put their efforts together to make these wonderful hot packs/bed buddies. They are being sold for a donation of $20 towards our adoption fund. Please contact me or Kingsview Christian School if you are interested in purchasing one! They would make a wonderful Christmas gift! Bed Buddies include hot pack and slip cover (in a variety of fabrics)