4 Months In.. Posted about about 9 years ago

Hey, Y'all! Hope you all are having a relaxing Memorial Day Weekend, and are able to take some time to stop and remember all those heroic military members who paid the ultimate sacrifice so that we could live the life we do. Like I've said in earlier post, it's getting harder to write updates since, well.. we really don't have much to update you on as often as we did during all our...

Quick facts about our Adoption Journey... Posted about about 9 years ago

Hey, Y'all! Hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend, and a very Happy Mother's Day to all the moms, grandmas, step-moms, birth moms and moms-to-be out there. This day always hurts a little for me (Brandy), and this year was no different. It's hard being in church and watching all the moms stand up and be presented with flowers, it's hard seeing families out at restaurants dressed up with litt...

We're Offically Approved!! Posted about about 9 years ago

Hey, Y'all! Sorry it's been so long since our last update. But I promise this update is worth it : We're OFFICIALLY APPROVED! At the end of March we received a drafted email copy of our 15 page (Yes, 15 page) Home Study .... proofed it, sent back a signed copy, and waited to get that "Approved" Letter in our mailbox. It came April 8th. I don't think either of us have smiled so big. It was such ...

...and now we wait. Posted about over 9 years ago

Hey, Y'all! We hope you had a wonderful Easter! Sorry it's been so long since our last update. We've been VERY busy! But we've got some pretty exciting things to report now :)We've spent the past 2 weeks since our last update finalizing all the items on our checklist to be able to make our folder complete at our agency. Since we last updated you, we've gotten both cats into the vet for updated ...

A VERY Successful Weekend!! Posted about over 9 years ago

Hey, Y'all! Happy Wednesday. We're already in the middle of March? This year is already flying by... As you may recall, this past weekend was going to be a busy one. We had our individual interviews on Friday, each lasting 2 hours in our home. Then that evening we had our Wine & Design fundraiser. All of that fun was then followed by a 2 day vendor event at Don't Buy New, a Vintage Flea Mar...

A BIG week! Posted about over 9 years ago

Happy Monday, Friends & Family! This week is startin' bright and early .. and it's gonna be busy. We've got many exciting things happening this week. Our social worker is coming to visit our home on Friday, March 11th to do our interviews with us. We each will do a 2 hour, separate interview at our home. After that, we just have a couple little checks to do paperwork wise and then will be j...

You may have noticed a slight change.. Posted about over 9 years ago

Happy Friday, Everyone! Can you believe next week is March? This year is already flying by..You may have noticed, we changed the "Goal" total amount. Originally the total was $28k, which encompassed the $26,000 fee from our agency and then an average estimate of fees that aren't covered by our agency equaling the remaining $2,000. We took the $2k off and decided that we'd cross that bridge when...

One Month In... Posted about over 9 years ago

Hey, Y'all! Happy Friday :) This weekend, Feb 21st, celebrates one month since we signed our contract with our agency and began this wonderful journey!  It seems like just yesterday we went through those 15 pages of signatures, but at the same time, it seems like with all the training and paper work we've done in the past month that it's been way longer! It's all blurring together. We only have...

Checkin' things off the list.. Posted about over 9 years ago

Hey, friends and family! Sorry it's been 10 days since our last update.. we've been extremely busy filling out paperwork, reading our books, and checkin' requirements off our list! We had a check list that contained over 50 things, ranging from simple actions like providing a birth certificate, to more cumbersome task like medical physicals, book reports, fire marshal home inspections and healt...

11% ?? THANK YOU!! Posted about over 9 years ago

Happy February, Y'all! We're beyond blessed to have you all in our life, and are SO grateful for the outpouring of donations, every sweet congratulatory message, inspiring stories, prayers and best wishes everyone has poured out to us in the last 10 days. We NEVER in our wildest dreams could have imaged all the support we've been given. We're blown away by the messages asking to help start addi...