Dossier

  While we still have some of the dossier to finish. The bulk of it is at last done! Mailed Tuesday and arrived today at our agency!  We are praying that translation can begin soon so that we sure able to press forward!

Please pray that everything goes smoothly and that God would open hearts and prepare our son for the changes coming.  Pray for us as we begin more on depth explaining to Brianna about upcoming changes in our lives. 
Also pray as we earnestly fundraiser and prepare our house to be rented out while we are gone.

Lacking a few doors n touch up to being done!

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House/progress

   Spent the weekend working on our house,  playing with our toddler and preparing to send our dossier to agency for review! Plumber came and fixed toilet on Friday so we finally have the kids bathroom semi functional again!
Last week our precious baby girl turned THREE! So hard to believe. Time has flown and I'm thrilled to be blessed to be this wildly independent girls mom! We have started mentioning her brother more and more as we inch forward in our process.  Now as we prepare for me to be off work this summer and we send our dossier prayers are needed for funding.  We begin grant applications this week and are trusting God to provide what is needed in His timing! Anyone without plans the 28/29/30 of May come hang out and help with our three day yard sale! We are still taking donations! Contact us for pickup!  Prays that this nets our needs. Apostilitation is $5 per document.  I think it will be about $56/60 could be more then $12,200 for remaining agency and legal fees!  This is not including the $20k for travel! We are trusting God and taking it one day at a time but most of funds due by Sept/Oct! Please keep us on n your prays and start praying for grants!

    God never ceases to amaze me! The brilliant timing of His is incredible. Watching Him in the details is just astounding! So after all the trials, fuss, and heartache with our house and everything as we sought to get our home study officially finished...guess when the official approval came? Brianna's 3rd Birthday! May 5, 2015 will be a date that sticks in my mind forever for even more reasons now! We are on a much more official playing field as we press onward. Our I-800A gets mailed out this week requesting permission to make this child our son and a U.S. Citizen! Pray that all goes well and speedy! We are mailing in all our official papers to the agency so that they can begin translation ASAP. Next we have biometrics and if I remember anything from 14 years ago with my brother this involves us going to immigration, but I am not completely sure about that as of yet. Brice and I are working hard on finishing the house so that we have it all ready to rent out by this fall to save a little money if we can at all.


At Brianna's recent well visit I asked about scheduling a visit to discuss adoption paperwork and review our sons file once its received! Prayers that this goes well and that we can get an exemption to only stay in country for 4 months so that we can get him stateside for services! I have also checked with the International Adoption Clinic in town and that review will cost us $475 so add that to the legal fees due this summer and we are in some serious fundraising need! God is working out amazing things! We have been blessed with many wonderful donations and are planning a massive Yard Sale for the end of the month! Even better a friend just contacted me that we can use her house for a community wide one this Saturday! Prayers that it goes well and that we earn lots of money for the adoption! Brianna and I are gonna spend lots of time this week getting things together! I am off to do the last couple of errands for today before going home to cook supper and prepare Yard Sale things.


Prayers for the grants we just sent off today and the ones we have yet to apply. Prayers for our boy who is getting older everyday, most likely without language and the love of a family. Prayers for Jessie as I continue studying Spanish. Thanks to a good friend I have been practicing on the way to work, but have spent several weeks on the 3rd cd...Prayers that I renew my gusto!


As I wrap up work for the year and prepare to stay home and catch up on the house and things this summer, prayers that God provides everything we need financially and otherwise as we seek to be wise with finances and time.


Prayers for success at the yard sale, and as we apply for several fundraisers for summer/fall!

Homestudy progress

    Homestudy is signed and we are awaiting notary and our finally copy.  Then are i800 will be submitted for permission to make this boy a US citizen and our son!  We are currently finishing the documents in our dossier. Pictures of family, last required forms, and odds and ends as we wait fbi prints to come back.

Prayers appreciated as we press forward.  Work wraps up for me in a few weeks and then it's summer break.  We are planning a massive Yard Sale to help with adoption costs as our second legal fee will be due this summer.  Prayers appreciated as we press forward!

Dossier/homestudy

While most people have long since completed their homestudy we are still awaiting while pressing on with our dossier! It has been a ride for sure but God has proven faithful again and again!  Today wraps up our pampered chef fundraiser and then we have Tupperware and thirtyone in addition to juice plus upcoming if anyone is interested.  A dear friend is hosting another pampered chef fundraiser for me and we are planning a HUGE yard Sale the end of MAY! I'm super excited! Cannot wait for summer and fundraising! Outright Donations can be mailed to us,  sent to reeces rainbow or www.adopttogether.com/ourdeafadoption

Check it out.  Grab a money jar! We need $13,000 to finish paying agency and legal fees! We are inching forward so please help in any way you can!

Pray for our boy! Pray that soon we will see his file!
Pray our homestudy gets finished and that we get grants!

Pray that we find renters while we are out of country!

Please as you spring clean keep us mind!

Pressing on...

   Life has been chaotic as we pursue the massive amount paperwork with the adoption.  Chasing down references and letters to compete this phase and completing our i800 for permission to go get our son.  Its been allot of work and almost overwhelming at times as we trade off childcare, grocery shop, cook, clean,  and deal with life,  but God in His wisdom provides every little detail.  We get a grant rejection letter and a check comes in the mail. He has never failed to show us his hand in this process.  We are prayerfully pushing forward. We now have a reeces rainbow account active in addition to abba fund and Adopttogether. Thanks to help from friends I am gathering assessments and slowly getting some basic school materials to take with us! Brianna and I have started doing 15 min of school everyday and talking about helping our brother learn. She is so excited and yet she has no clue. .. one day when he is stealing her toys I will remind her how much she wanted a brother haha.

Keep praying for those grants.  As we wrap up our homestudy the time is getting closer that they will be needed!

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Need Tupperware?  Thirty one? Pampered chef?

Have things to donate for our yard Sale?

Know a place we could have a spaghetti supper or chili cookoff this fall?

Keep praying!  Thanks

I800

I'd heard over and over again in my adoption groups about this particular form but it never really hit me until this past week as we started our dossier process and filled out this form, but I've got to admit it has taken my excitement to a whole new level!  Having a friend in country who is soon bringing her son home has made this even more real for me! We are just praying as we meet with a financial advisor and  save what we can while finishing the last few things around the house,  that God will provide every step of the way!  We ask for your support through prayers, donations  (we need clothes and yard sale items as well so donate to us instead of good will!), we lack around $33,000 total not to mention the expenses of covering our bills while out of work! This is a total walk of faith and we are taking it one day at a time.  Pray as we begin applying for grants! We are lacking $680 paying dossier n $890 for the I-800 fee just to get US approval to adopt.

Specific prayers are for our sweet daughter as we begin preparing her for a brother.  For our son as he waits alone with no clue that anyone is coming for him to make him apart of a FAMILY!

Prayers that God grants us the financial assistance and fundraisers to press forward!

In Him
Jessie