Adoption Update!!

Our homestudy is done!!! Our profile is online with Bethany!!! Now we wait on God's timing. We will need prayers for patience, but we are so excited to be entering this stage of the adoption. We feel we can begin readying our home for a baby. We want to thank all of you for your support and prayers so far and we know we are truly blessed to have friends and family like you. I will try and keep you all updated more as the wait goes on.

Some People

My wife and I recently had our e-mail hacked. This person also hacked into my facebook account. They sent a email to everyone in our contact list stating that my wife was in Europe had had been mugged and all her money stolen. They then proceeded to erase our contact list and any emails in our inbox were forwarded to another account. This was a complete nightmare to try and clean up. We needed to create a new email and then let everyone know what it was. We then had to go into every account that we used that email for and change passwords and logins. It was also a hassle to get back into my facebook account. I makes me angry and sad that there are people out there that feel they need to do this to others. I don't know if they were just trying to get money out of our friends and relatives or if they just needed to feel validated by hurting someone else. I will be praying for the individual that did this in hopes that he/she will realize that there is a Savior that loves them and that they don't need to do this stuff! Needless to say it makes us very paranoid now about our accounts. I am constantly checking to see if our new one has been compromised. Some people!!! The one thing we got out of this is that we realize how many of our family and friends really do care about us. It is good to know that if we really are ever in trouble that we have them to help us out. We love you all!!!

It's Been Awhile

Can't believe it has been almost a month since I posted last. Here is a quick update on where we are at with our adoption process. All our paper work is turned in and we have finished 3 of our Homestudy interviews. We will have our last interview this Thursday at 12:30PM. Our social worker will be coming to our house for this one. The Homestudy thing was pretty intimidating at first but has been pretty painless so far. I will have a more detailed post after this Thursday.

Quick Update

We just sent in our self study questions!! It is a huge relief to have those sent. Now we don't have to hound each other to get our questions done. We are supper excited to have this stage of the adoption process done!! Now we wait to hear from Bethany on when we will start our home study. This is one of those high points on the roller coaster ride. :)

Our Family Choices

In May, my wife and I decided to take the adoption route for starting our family. This decision was not made easily and I will give you a little bit of back history so you understand where we are at.

At the time of this decision, we had been married 9 years. For the first few years we had the attitude that if we got pregnant, we got pregnant. We have never used any kind of protection whether that was condoms or the pill. About 3 years ago we decided to really start trying to have kids. Nothing happened. My wife, bless her type A personality, started researching what we needed to do to help the process. She was taking her temperature daily, on pre-natal vitamins and so on. After a year or so of this we decided we needed to talk to a doctor. There was blood tests, semen tests, surgery for my wife and all kinds of medication for her. Through this whole process we were watching our friends and family starting there families and seeming not to struggle at all. Now don't get me wrong, we love our friends and family and are extremely happy for them. We have 8 wonderful nephews and a beautiful niece not to mention our friends' kids who call us auntie and uncle. It is just really hard when we want children so bad and can't seem to make any head way.

That is our story to this point. We were super excited when we made the decision to adopt. We felt we could finally start moving forward. It has been, as a close friend that has recently gone through this process said, a roller coaster ride of emotions. We are excited to start a family; scared to start a family ( I know everyone goes through this) and stressed about the lack of control we have through the whole process. We have wonderful families who are very supportive and an awesome church family that has been behind us through this whole process. Without their support we would not be able to handle this. And we know God has a plan for us and that this will are work out the way HE wants and has planned. We just need to learn to let go and wait on Him. That is probably the hardest part for both of us.

We are going through Bethany Christian Services for our adoption. They have been awesome to work with and we can tell they really care about the families and kids they are working with. We have finished most of our paperwork and they have received both backgrounds checks and everything is okay. All we have left before we can start the home study is the 60+ self study questions. We have set a deadline of Thursday the 26th of August to have these done, it looks like we will make that deadline. As of this post I only have 11 questions left!! WhooHoo!!

I am just so glad that I have my loving wife (she is also my best friend) to go through this process with. She has been absolutely wonderful and patient with me.

That is where we are at now and I hope to keep the updates coming regularly. Please pray for patience and strength for us as we make this journey.

Starting Over

Hello All,
 This is my second blog. My first was erased do to my ignorance in deleting a google account that had been compromised. I hope that I will be more attentive in blogging from here on out. In this blog will be my musings on life and faith. I will hopefully blog about things like my faith journey and our adoption process. I don't have a lot to say at the moment. I just wanted to say hi!!