Next step here we come......

Well, the agency sent us a letter stating that our home study was "officially" accepted! Yay!!! They told us to call the agency and set up a meeting with the owner to go over the legal rights and such. They also want to go over the photo album that will be printed for potential moms to look at and the album that will go on the internet. We are very excited about getting to the next step.

I was reading the blog that the Christian Adoption agency put on their website for waiting families to read. They give tips on how to put together a successful photo book. They even said that some peoples books are so good that they get picked after only two weeks. Now, of course that got my hopes up and I thought right away that we should hurry and get the book done so we can get picked. I have already started working on it on Shutterfly, but I want it to be perfect so I am going to take my time.

The meeting is scheduled for February 10. So we will need lots of prayers from that point on. Once we get the book done we will also create an album on-line. Once that is completed I will post the link and you can view our album on line.

Thank you for all of your prayers thus far. We still need plenty. God has a plan and we are trusting in him to know when the time is right. Have a great week!

Nursery Finished

Well, we managed to clean out our third bedroom that was our office (and the dogs room) and make it our nursery. We purchased the crib and brought in some other pieces of furniture and we painted last weekend. It was so much fun getting all of the baby items ready. We tried to stay with nutural colors and mostly green with some yellow and tan mixed in. I have included some pictures so everyone can see what the finished product looks like.

We needed to get this room done to put some pictures in our photo book and hopefully our on-line album for the agency. We have not heard from them since our homestudy was complete, but with the holidays, we figured there would be some delay.

We will keep you all updated on the next step, but enjoy the pictures and we thank all of your family that made it possible for us to complete this project.