May 6 update:

I realize it has been about a month since our last update. During this last month we have mailed off our corrected documents and are continuing to wait for the official word that we are on the waiting list. The deparment of education is the one who puts us on that all important list and apparently this upcoming week/end is a national holiday so many officials took vacation to extend their holiday. Yea for holidays :) So...we will wait patiently until they return and can give us our confirmation we long for.
Over the last 2 months we have been the recipients for a fundraiser as well as a matching grant. We can not even begin to explain in words what a blessing these have been and how amazing it is to watch God literally weave a path for us, helping to make this adoption even more tangible. As a result, our family has been blessed with $18,500 towards our outstanding balance. How can we praise Him enough? How can we thank those who gave enough? We can only thank each and everyone of you for the part you have played in this adoption journey thus far: thank you for your prayers, thank you for your support of our family, thank you for your words of encouragement and advice, thank you for your giving. Brent and I hope to be able to return such blessings to other families who share the same desire to take in the fatherless child and shower him/her with the love of Christ.
Please continue to lift up our family in prayer. These are some things you can specifically pray for: Pray that we are patient as we begin this waiting period, pray for Kinley that she will be safe, nurtured, and healthy (mentally, physically, emotionally), during our time of seperation. Also pray for protection over her from abuse, neglect, diseases, etc. Pray that God will continue to prepare our hearts and her's to transition comfortably and quickly into being a family of 5 and that He would continue to provide the last of the finances to pay off our adoption in full as well as for our travel expenses. Lastly, you can pray that God will work out all of the details regarding when it is our time to travel that the boys will be looked after and that it won't be impossible to leave them! (the longest we have ever been away from them was 5 days and that was incredibly hard!)
Thank you again and we want to wish everyone a happy Mother's Day!