Your Prayers Worked!!

God did it, He worked it out!  I don't have the official letter in my hand, but I have a sample letter verifying my employment and it's great!  Thank you to everyone who prayed. 

Employment Letter

Please pray for a change in heart from my employer.  They are refusing to write my employment letter how the Chinese want it and they are stating my job is temporary.  This could end our adoption journey for China, please pray.

Feeling better, but getting discouraged

We are all healthy!  Thank you for your prayers.

We have finished our safety enhancements to the house(smoke detectors on every level that are linked, safety strips on the stairs, lock for our medicine cabinet).  Now, we anxiously await our home study visit on the 21st.  Sometime in there we have to have ten hours of training. 

I'm starting to feel a bit discouraged with this process and we are only a month into it.  Pray for me, please.

For those of you on Facebook, check out the video I posted with R(2).

Feeling better, fingerprints and T-shirts

It seems we are all feeling a little better each day.  I hope the ones that were not sick don't catch anything now. 

We went today to be fingerprinted for our FBI check.  Conveniently two doors down, was a starbucks!  Hooray!  I love their salted caramel hot chocolate and since we are never near a starbucks, it was a special treat.

I added a new banner on the side of the blog that you can order some awesome t-shirts celebrating adoption.  We get a generous portion of the sale towards our adoption costs.  Please consider purchasing one.  Spring will be here before you know it. 

Here's a little picture to remind you of the good times of summer! R(2) at almost a year old!

Sickness

So far, this season we have been pretty healthy.  We cringed of the stomach bug horrors.  We seemed to miss that bug(which I am grateful for).  We are being hit right now with sickness. Brian and I were both sick last night and now the kids seem to have a bug.  Luckily, we can rest all weekend and hopefully feel better by Monday.

A company that I ordered a bow from for a friend is having a 20% off sale on every bow.  Should I dare by some for my soon to be little girl?  I have told several people that she will have bows in her hair everyday until I get tired of it.  So, I better get stocking up.  I only have 11-15 months to gather all I need.  Anyone with extra girly bows send them my way!  Oh, and I know there is a possibility she won't keep them in but I'm going to try!

We hope everyone is feeling ok in your household...come on spring!

Homestudy application is done!!!

Thank you to everyone who is praying!  I shipped the completed homestudy application(about 100 pages) out today!  All of the forms came on time and the water test came back clear!  I am very happy to have this done.  We can now focus on some fundraising, and the Dossier.  The homestudy is by far complete, but most of the work on our ends is out of the way.  We still have to have atleast two more meetings with our social worker(one at the house) and 10 hours of training.  The meeting at the house is the biggie-and that is scheduled to take place Feb 21st.  Please keep that meeting in your prayers. 

I need a few people whom are willing to sell some fundraiser items.  In the next weeks we will be selling:

• pretzel sandwiches (ham w/am cheese, turkey w/provolone), 3.50 each
• pretzels (soft pretzel sticks(24 sticks) 12 dollars, authentic soft pretzels(12 pretzels included) 12 dollars, butter pretzels(8 pretzels included) 9 dollars, hand twisted pretzel rolls(5 sandwich rolls), 9 dollars) 
• pies (apple caramel walnut, southern pecan, peach praline, apple, very berry), 12 dollars each
• rolls (red velvet, pumpkin, chocolate peanut butter), 12 dollars each
• cookie dough (Chunky Chocolate Chip, M&M, Peanut Butter, Oatmeal Raisin, Sugar, Peanut Butter with Chocolate Chunks, White Chocolate Macadamia, Snicker-Doodle), 15 dollars each

Anyone hungry yet?

So, if you are interested in any of the items, they will be picked up and delivered between Feb 16-19(the sandwiches, obviously will be sooner).  If you are in the area(within an hour of Lancaster, PA) and will not being seeing Steff or Brian please feel free to email us(foofie357@hotmail.com) or write a comment to place your order. Money and orders are due Feb 1.   We will deliver the items.

If you are interested in helping us to sell the items at your place of employment, or just amongst family and friends, Brian and I would be grateful.  We can do the pickup, but you would have to distribute.  We would be willing to share some of the proceeds with you in exchange for your help. 

If you see Brian or Steff be expecting us to haggle you into buying something! 

As a reminder, you can still purchase a painting at walkonwatercolors.com code word:China and the proceeds will benefit the adoption.

Thanks again for all your support!

Oh and just in case you were wondering, he still has all of his hair!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from our family to yours!