The time is here!

  Well the time has finally come. The BIG yard sale is this week! Thursday, Friday, & Saturday we are going to brave the heat and try our best to close the gap on our adoption expenses. Once again we have a LOT of stuff. We hope to have several tents set up to help our shoppers be a little more comfortable while they are treasure hunting. This time it will be at our house to make things a little easier for the little one. So everyone pray for the rain that was forecast to pass us by and for hoarders! We will have lots of things for under $2.00 and be highly motivated to negotiate! We really want our garage back :) If all goes as we hope this will be our last yard sale for this adoption fundraising (& maybe ever). This isn't because we will meet our goal but because we want to be sane when we meet our new addition. So if you get the chance come on down and send all your friends too!
   As far as the adoption process goes, we are moving right along! We have finished our home study and it has been sent to our placement agency. YAY!! And our paperwork is done, YAY!! All I have to do is make some copies and mail some checks and we will be ready for approval. YAY!! Which means we will be able to be shown to birth mothers and possibly selected!! It is all moving along pretty well. As always keep us in your prayers :)

Nearing a Milestone

    I have not been very good at updating you on our progress, but we have been pretty busy. As I  said before, we have had a hundred  eight yard sales, and we are planning to have one more HUGE one. I think the date for that will be June 26th & 27th, but that is tentative. Even though I say that's the last one it will probably depend on how much we make and how much stuff we have left over. On a more enjoyable note, we should have all our paperwork in and our home study done by the end of next week!!! YAAAAYYY!! Talk about major accomplishment :) Although it was much easier the second time it's still really time consuming, and a little aggravating. For example, do ya'll know anyone who when they got pregnant had to take their pets to the vet and have a $50 exam so you could get a note saying it's ok to give you a child and your pet is up to date on vaccines and not a threat to a child? But anyways, that's a whole other story:) I'm really just glad I've already done most all of it! So what this all means is starting sometime in July we will be approved and eligible to be selected by a birth mother! Just think we could be possible be parents to two children by Christmas! They did say it takes longer usually the second time around though, so we will just have to wait and see. After all, we do want this to happen all in God time. Our little boy is now walking so my life got a lot easier and a little more difficult too:) I guess I just can't handle not being insanely busy because I just took on another endeavor. I have started to work for a home based wellness company:) My main reason for doing this is because our little boy has eczema and possibly asthma and is just super sensitive to a lot of things. I have been using this company's body wash and shampoo on him and it has been the only thing that hasn't bothered him (probably cause it doesn't have formaldehyde and who knows what else in it). So we are about to convert the whole house to these products and get rid of all the unnecessary chemicals. I am very excited about it and if anyone else has these similar issues I'd love to try to help you figure out if this would help you too. I know how frustrating it is trying to determine what will help or worsen their eczema! So anyways, that's the latest news around here :) Please keep praying for our family and that we will receive our next child according to God's great plan. Have a blessed day!