Pressing On

This process has been painfully slow for us. We went to our first consultation at our agency in February and it's now July. And we're still not finished with our home study. BUT...we will finally be completing our home study-tomorrow! We have our last visit in the morning and then we will go in for one more consultation and then we wait to be matched! It feels good to be so close to having our end of things finished. Then we can just wait for God to do His thing. We are feeling good about things!

Me and the Hubster

We also have been offered a $3500 adoption grant to help with our expenses! The money has not been sent yet, though, so we're not posting anything about where we got this grant or that we have received anything yet. But it's there, God is providing. He has provided in amazing, crazy, off-the-wall ways and I am absolutely LOVING experiencing it. I'm for sure an idealist and so, at the beginning of all of this, I was researching all these crazy ideas for saving money for the adoption and The Husband kind of thought it was all quite cute (he's the realist in this relationship--the yin to my yang) but didn't think it would really help. He's been working SO hard so we can save more for the adoption. He's pretty amazing. But it has been so awesome to watch God provide through handmade wreaths and clutches, a Facebook auction and a grant.

We should be done with everything and waiting to be matched in about two weeks. I'm sure that then the roller coaster will only have begun.

Fourth of July

We spent the 4th at home just hanging out as a family. It was really nice. The Husband's parents and brother came over for an early cook-out and the kids played outside. We ventured out to fireworks for the first time with children this year! Fireworks here didn't start till 9:15 pm so we were a little worried how the kids would handle a bedtime about 4 hours later than normal! They. Did. Great!! It was so worth the late bedtime! Bubba kept asking, "How'd THAT happen?!" every time he saw a big firework. Sissy thought they were Tinkerbell.

Bubba also had his first karate class last week! He did SO well! He was very shy and timid because it was his first time but seeing him get the punches down after one try and hearing him say, "Yes, Sir!" "No, Sir!" was so awesome. I see so much potential in that little boy. Here are a few pics from the past week.