AMAZING GOD!!!!!!!

We found out today that one of the benefactors for Reece's Rainbow, the group that we found the kids through, has donated $5000.00 to our adoption fund. I have been so blessed in the many ways that God has chosen to show himself faithful through this journey. Also to see how he is touching hearts and drawing us nearer to him is amazing. Should I be surprised, NO but I am always amazed and I will give him all the glory! We are so close to being financially ready now, just need to sell the rest of those pizza card and we are pretty darn close. We are also lucky that my husband is getting a ton of overtime but that means he has not had any time to get that closed done and I am trying not to get to anxious about getting the kids rooms done. But all you ladies know that it is driving me crazy. Anybody out there we wants to build a closet is welcome to help.

GARAGE SALE

Today we had a garage sale to clear out the extra stuff to be able to rearrange the kids rooms. It was so windy that we could hardly keep anything on the tables. We had a great turn out but people just couldn't look through things while they were flying away. My husband sold all the extra furniture on craigs list and the rest we boxed up for charity. DONE!!!!!!!!! Now we can get started on the closets down stairs. We also found out about a web site that is called freecyle where is areas all over the country people put their stuff that they want to get rid of on and we ended up being able to give away things that were left so they wouldn't get just thrown out. Pretty Cool! Check it out. Just waiting for the USICIS approval then we are on our way to submiting, very exciting.

Finally made contact!!!

We finally got a call today from USCIS and they requested that the homestudy agency reword three areas. Not bad considering some of the horror stories I have heard. We talked to the agency and thay said they have been getting the same requests from all the ones that are coming out of the Missouri Base which is everyone after April 5th.
They had it changed and sent directly to the officer the afternoon, they have been absolutley amazint to work with and a real blessing. She said everything else was great and the approvalwould be ready as soon as she received the documentation. YeaHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! So we may be sending our Dossier next week. Did you hear me God that means we still need more money, yes Lord that is a challenge.

MALACHI 3:10 Bring the Whole Tithe to the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. TEST ME in this and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. You have proven yourself faithful and we look forward to seeing what the Lord will do with his 10% this month, looking forward to pay day.

Busy Week

Well we got our digital fingerprints done on Tuesday and they send them to the FBI digitally while we were there, really cool! We are building closets in the basement and converting our living room into a master bedroom. We went to home depot and got all the closet doors and entry door for $60.00 clearenced out, that is a awesome deal! That way we will be able to get it done and start on the kids rooms, exciting it makes it all feel real. We also started picking up some clothes for the kids and trying to guess which sizes they are, it is fun just imagining them being home. We were also blessed this week by a donor that gave $2500.00 God is truly amazing and we are so thankful that this person allowed God to use them to bring his kids home to their forever family!!!!!!!!! We have also been doing the pizza card fundraiser and discount card fundraiser, it has been working out pretty well and we have made up our investment and everything from here on out is profit. Some of our friends are helping sell some cards and that is helping out alot. No we wait for our USCIS approval and we are ready to submit our dossier and get ready to travel. EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALYSSA!

Forgot to tell everyone that last Friday was Alyssa 7th Birthday! It was a hard day since we are not with her to celebrate our daughter's special day. You got to wonder if she even knows what a birthday is. Good new we found out that they are going to pass Noah on to First Grade, since he is the baby of the class. That means we won't end up having three Kindergarteners. Good job Noah!

HAD TO RESCHEDULE

With much disappointment we had to reschedule or fingerprint appointment. We received the new appointment May 11, two week later. Now things are getting pretty exciting. I no longer can focus only on paperwork and it is a little overwhelming to think of how much life will change in the next few months. I am very excited and I know we will do just fine. Now all the things that need to be in order are all my focus at home. My husband said now that the paper pregnancy is done I must be NESTING! He is right!

Finger Print Appointment

Yeah we got the letter from USCIS for our fingerprint appointment! April 27th, not bad for sending it on the First of April, them getting it April 5th. Don't ever believe the overnight thing if you live in Wyoming it always takes at least 3-5 days no matter what. Sometimes I wonder if it is still Pony Express. So happy to be home from our trip to Michigan for the National girls Hockey Tournament. They lost all their games but it was the first time Wyoming has been to a National Tournament. We stopped in Chicago and took the kids to Medievil Times and that was a blast. Also we went to the Museum of Science and Industry and everyone was surprised at how large it was. We did not even come closed to seeing everything in 5+ hours, but it was alot of fun. Missing my husband, he flew back to Minnesota to help out his parents for another week. I sure do count on him to help out with the kids, he is a great DAD! Plus it seems like everything comes up when they are gone. Very excited to get to send the dossier, you can actually see that it could happen. WOW! PLus we were so lucky to stay with my broher-in-law Keith and Danielle and they are really supportive of the choice to adopt. It makes such a difference if your family doesn't think your crazy, but then again we are always doing things out of the box. Maybe they are finally getting used to it. LOL