For anyone who has ever doubted God's existence, let me reassure you He lives! Our family is continuing to personally be blessed by Him as we follow His commands and walk in faith. We received notification that we will have to re-do 4 pages of our dossier, which have already been done and should be sent off to Austin to apostilled tomorrow or Friday. So praise God it was only 4 pages! We also were given the name of our Russian helper who will be our power of attorney and help us with all of our paperwork, Visas, etc.
This last week we held our second garage sale and wrapped up our Perpetual Change Fundraiser. We can not even begin to tell you how much we were blessed! Thank you does not even begin to come close to us expressing our deepest gratitude to everyone who donated, attended, and blessed us through these fundraisers. Our family is eternally grateful to each and every one of you and we want you to know that you each have played such an immense role in helping us bring our daughter home! We will be praying for God to bless you all as He has us.
We have also been trying to finish our 10 hours of Hague accredited courses, which has been a very great learning opportunity of some of the challenges we will be faced with once she gets home.
Prayer requests: Pray that all of our dossier paperwork is approved this time :), pray for patience as we begin our time of waiting, pray for Kinley to be safe from abuse, neglect, sickness, and that God would begin to prepare her heart to join our family and bond quickly. Also pray that God's timing would prevail when it comes time to travel and that arrangements would be easily made for us to get to Russia and for the boys as they will be staying here in the states while we are abroad.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
bedding done and more
So, my big goal for spring break was to finish Kinley's bedding and it is done!!! Her room is coming right along and looking more and more like a bedroom each week. Our paperwork is coming along too. We are still waiting to hear back from our assigned region (the area we will be traveling to pick her up from) to see if our paperwork is officially complete or if we need to re-do any forms. If all goes well and they deem our paperwork complete then we are officially on the waiting list! Yea!! We'll keep you all updated :) Have a blessed and safe spring break!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Waiting to hear...
We finally were able to make contact with our case worker today and were told that we are waiting to hear back from our assigned region to see if our paperwork was correct and complete. Yes...that is right I said complete! It turns out that we have already done all of our paperwork as long as the region will accept it. So, we are waiting to hear if they will accept our paperwork as is or if they have any other forms they will require. If everything gets accepted then we are officially on the waiting list!!!
So, while we wait we are going to begin our 10 hours of required education this weekend. Also, we have been busy, busy, busy preparing her room (thanks to my sister). Kinley now has a crib, complete with a crib skirt and bumper pad. The blanket is still a work in progress :)
Prayer requests: Pray that God's hand will be in the decisions made reguarding our paperwork and that hopefully it will be deemed "complete". Also pray for our family and that we will have patience as we wait for our referral. You can always pray for God to begin even now to prepare our hearts as well as our daughter's heart for the major transition as we become a family of 5 and that she will quickly bond with all of us and us with her. Lastly, be in prayer for our finances as things are starting to move quickly and we are going to be presented with some very large expenses in the very near future. Pray for fundraiser that is currently in the works and that God will bless it according to His will. Thank you all for your continued love and support! This has been amazing to be able to share our journey with you!
So, while we wait we are going to begin our 10 hours of required education this weekend. Also, we have been busy, busy, busy preparing her room (thanks to my sister). Kinley now has a crib, complete with a crib skirt and bumper pad. The blanket is still a work in progress :)
Prayer requests: Pray that God's hand will be in the decisions made reguarding our paperwork and that hopefully it will be deemed "complete". Also pray for our family and that we will have patience as we wait for our referral. You can always pray for God to begin even now to prepare our hearts as well as our daughter's heart for the major transition as we become a family of 5 and that she will quickly bond with all of us and us with her. Lastly, be in prayer for our finances as things are starting to move quickly and we are going to be presented with some very large expenses in the very near future. Pray for fundraiser that is currently in the works and that God will bless it according to His will. Thank you all for your continued love and support! This has been amazing to be able to share our journey with you!
Friday, March 4, 2011
Region assignment
Yea and praise God! We have our region assignment as of today!!! Can you feel the excitement? So, this means we can proceed with the final paperwork and be officially put on the waiting list. To top it off, as we are looking at the required paperwork, we have already done a lot of it and may not have to re-do it which means less paperwork for us! Double yea!!!
Jen has been busy working on baby girl's room...or at least her bedding. Pictures will come once it is completed, but it is going much better than she originally expected :) Also, we have decided on what her name will be. Kinley Grace Gibson.
As most of you following our blog know we have mailed out our adoption fundraiser letter over the last week. We ask that you prayerfully consider giving if God would have you donate to our adoption fund. We have been so blessed thus far in this adoption process and continue to put our trust in God to finalize the remaining finances. Thanks to each and every one of you for your support of our family through prayer, donations, and just caring for our family in general. We can not thank you enough or reitterate how much each and every one of you mean to us. We are continuing to plan for our service project and will post something ASAP.
Jen has been busy working on baby girl's room...or at least her bedding. Pictures will come once it is completed, but it is going much better than she originally expected :) Also, we have decided on what her name will be. Kinley Grace Gibson.
As most of you following our blog know we have mailed out our adoption fundraiser letter over the last week. We ask that you prayerfully consider giving if God would have you donate to our adoption fund. We have been so blessed thus far in this adoption process and continue to put our trust in God to finalize the remaining finances. Thanks to each and every one of you for your support of our family through prayer, donations, and just caring for our family in general. We can not thank you enough or reitterate how much each and every one of you mean to us. We are continuing to plan for our service project and will post something ASAP.
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