Passports

So, the ball is beginning to role ;) My goal for this week is to get our passports (or at least the process of getting them) started. Prayer requests: Continue to pray for guidance over which country we are to adopt from and which agency to go through. We are hoping to hear back over the next couple of weeks from a source that will determine if we use them or the agency of our choice and we have it narrowed down to pretty much 2 countries. Until we decide with certainty we can't proceed any further.

Prayer requests

Our family continues to pray and would love to have others praying for our family that doors will be opened for us and that we could possibly start this while process sooner than we are planning to. We would love to submit paperwork today, but need to work out some of the fine details as well as some of the major wrinkles prior to doing so :) There are many people out there networking on our family's behalf and to each of you thank you! Even just seeking out contacts for us is such an amazing blessing! We know that God has a special child picked out just for us and we are doing our best to be patient while we wait for Him to lead us to where she is. Thanks again for keeping us in your prayers. It means more than anything to us.

Our announcement

After a few years of talking about it and another of praying about it, we are announcing that we are planning to adopt a little girl via international adoption. Our family is very excited and anxious to begin this process and recognize that there will be a long road ahead of us. Having no close friends or family that have been through this experience themselves, it is a very foreign (literally) concept to us. Just to let you know a little bit about our family, we have 2 little boys who are our biological children. They are the joy of our lives and keep us busy! We just have never truely felt that sense of "completeness" in our family of 4, which is what spurred all of our original discussions about adoption. I look forward to keeping you all up to date as our family begins this amazing journey and can't wait to see it all the way through!