Fund-Raising

Last week, I told you it would take 5 business days before the social worker from the adoption agency would contact us. Well I was wrong. She called the next day! :)
She said we looked great on paper and to come up with an action-plan for our fund-raising. She still has to talk with the international director at the agency before we are offically approved or rejected (we don't have much savings and this is not a good thing considering the cost - even all couples have to raise and/or save funds for adoption, it's good if you have a little bit at the beginnging and we don't!) So we took the weekend and came up with a plan that we think is great.
It's amazing the number of people we know who have adopted or are adopting! We truly believe that the Lord really wants us to adopt, so I believe it will happen - even if this agency tells us to call back when we have more money in savings. But we really like this agency, so we hope to be approved. I called her Monday to tell her our plan and she said it sounded great and she still needed to talk with the director and that she would call me back.

The agency we have applied to is Lifeline Children's Services - they are a Christian-based agency.
Our country of choice: Peru
Our gender of choice: girl, but a boy will be just as sweet, in case we cannot adopt a girl! :)

So Brent and I will begin the lovely task of fund-raising, but I don't really see it as fund-raising.
There are many people who have impacted our life before marriage and after marriage and we hope that they will be apart of this time in our lives. We want to share it with them. We've been praying already for God to provide the funds - I know He will, He always does, and has done so many times in my life before, but His timing could be different than mine! I would have had all the funds last week, or I'd even settle for enough to pay what we need to, to begin and end the homestudy! But I will be happy and content in this time of praying and waiting. I love this song: click here or scroll to end of the blogsite to watch it.

Thanks for reading!

WE DID IT!!

We actually sent in our adoption application today!!! We are supposed to hear from the agency with in 5 business days after they receive our packet.

We have a few other friends who have adopted or are in the process of adoption. You can check out their blogs:
Kristin and Gregory
Tanya and Jay
These blogs are also under our friends list.
Tanya and Jay's blog is called "A Chair to Spare".

DiscipleNow 2009

Well, we had our first DNow at church May 1-3. Not West Point's first DNow, but the first one that Brent has planned here at this church. It was so great. Algernon Tennyson was our speaker. He's really great and has a great passion for the Lord and the Word.

Here is his website: http://www.awakenintl.com/

We met him back in Texas through some dear friends, Kent and Jane.

A local church provided music for us and did a wonderful job!

We played Couch Wars on Saturday afternoon. Thanks to Chris W.

We loved our study leaders, April, Ben and Adam, Jodi and Matthew! They were fabualous!

Here are a few pics from the weekend:
Junior High Boys Couch Wars

Junior High Girls

Senior High - they burned their couch at the end.

Next up: Summer Camp!

Weeks of Fun

The past two weeks have been so busy. Here are a few snaphots:

One day was craft day. I've been doing a Bible study with one of our youth and it was the last day of the study so I planned a little project for us to do to end the study.

Then Brent decided he needed to push a dead tree down in our yard!

Ready! Set! Down!

Then my family took a day-trip to Auburn. When Mike and Britt arrive to pick us up, they both got out of the car and shut the doors, when Britt went to open Destin's door - the car had locked itself! Thankfully the car was still running with the AC on. Fortunately this car has OnStar. My parents left the day before, so Brent called my parents - to get a pin number while Mike called OnStar - in a matter of five minutes OnStar unlocked the car - from wherever they were! Sometimes you've got to love technology! Once that fiasco was over we were on our way!

It was a fun day. Since part of my childhood was spent in Auburn, it felt like going home for me.

We hiked to the rock to take a family pic, visited an old neighbor, and walked around the campus.

Destin waiting calmly for the door to open - thank goodness he likes to play peek-a-boo!

Everyone needs 2 passies! haha

(i don't have the picture with my mom and dad in it)

So that was week 1, the last week and half of April, this was a quick catch up!

Week 2 is last week which was DNow - this was a fabulous weekend! Pics to come - I'm about to have to head to church - maybe one day I will be caught up.

Speaking of catching up - Christy I think that I am not the only one in need of updating her blog!!!!! LOL haha.......