Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
FINGERPRINTING IS COMPLETE!
We are SO thrilled that this is OVER. We headed to Jacksonville, Fl Monday night and arrived at our hotel at 1am. We were up early and went to the USCIS and got fingerprinted about 9am. Overall it was a lot of miles and totally exhausting, but we made it! We are SO SO glad that this huge step is over with and we anxiously await our 171. Soon, Lord, soon!! Please continue to pray with us that it will go smooth and nothing gets lost or misplaced, and that we get our 171 very quickly. Thank You!
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Prayer Warriors Needed!!
We have two HUGE prayer requests!!
1.) We need our 171 here by April 25th. It's a long story why, but just pray for that date specifically. April 25th, Lord, April 25th!!!
2.) We sent off our grant application to Shaohannah's Hope today! This is the largest grant we'll be applying for and we're asking the Lord to grant us favor with the committee or individuals that decide. We should know something in about 6 weeks I think. Please pray that we would be awarded a grant!!!!!
Thanks so much everyone! If you're praying, please let us know! It's such an encouragement to us!!!!
1.) We need our 171 here by April 25th. It's a long story why, but just pray for that date specifically. April 25th, Lord, April 25th!!!
2.) We sent off our grant application to Shaohannah's Hope today! This is the largest grant we'll be applying for and we're asking the Lord to grant us favor with the committee or individuals that decide. We should know something in about 6 weeks I think. Please pray that we would be awarded a grant!!!!!
Thanks so much everyone! If you're praying, please let us know! It's such an encouragement to us!!!!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Ava from South Carolina with her Valentine Bows!!!
Read her message...is she precious or what? Thanks Allison!!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Adoption Paperchasing to the Max!
Whew! What a looooonnggg day of paperchasing! Productive, but llllloooonnnnngggg!
It started out with a trip to get some docs notarized. Then 45 minutes at the City Clerks office getting things certified. (Today we did Dougherty Co. and then tomorrow we'll drive to Lee Co and do those.) Next stop was a quick bite to eat with Daddy. On to the bank to pick up cashiers checks and then to daddy's office to get something printed off his computer and make copies. Off again to the UPS store to have things mailed off!!!
We mailed the HS to Atlanta and a few documents to the Sec. of State's office for certification.
All total, it was a VERY productive day. Annalyse is cutting her 1st set of molars so she made for one difficult 15mo old, but we made it home and all is well.
I did learn one very valuable lesson: PRAY PRAY PRAY. The first part of our morning was terrible. We had a glitch with one document, I locked myself out of the house in the pouring down rain, and Jay and I were snapping at each other left and right. After realizing that the enemy was attacking, I spend the next 10 minutes praying over the remainder of our day in detail. Everything from the baby's behavior, to the accuracy of the documents, and the ability to see the bigger picture was covered. Satan would love nothing more than to make this process frustrating and tiring. he wants us to question why we are putting all this effort out and why we are even doing all this in the first place. We will not allow him to have an inch more! We just pray the name of Jesus over every detail and let the Lord remind us of the end result. Sometimes it;s hard to keep our hearts on the fruit of our efforts, but we know one day that this will all be a faded memory, replaced by the giggle of a brown-eyed baby girl.
Please join us as we pray that the things we sent to ATL arrive there safely, are accurate, and return to us safely. Please pray that our fingerprint appointment in ATL is a time that works for Jay's schedule. Thank you guys so much!!!
It started out with a trip to get some docs notarized. Then 45 minutes at the City Clerks office getting things certified. (Today we did Dougherty Co. and then tomorrow we'll drive to Lee Co and do those.) Next stop was a quick bite to eat with Daddy. On to the bank to pick up cashiers checks and then to daddy's office to get something printed off his computer and make copies. Off again to the UPS store to have things mailed off!!!
We mailed the HS to Atlanta and a few documents to the Sec. of State's office for certification.
All total, it was a VERY productive day. Annalyse is cutting her 1st set of molars so she made for one difficult 15mo old, but we made it home and all is well.
I did learn one very valuable lesson: PRAY PRAY PRAY. The first part of our morning was terrible. We had a glitch with one document, I locked myself out of the house in the pouring down rain, and Jay and I were snapping at each other left and right. After realizing that the enemy was attacking, I spend the next 10 minutes praying over the remainder of our day in detail. Everything from the baby's behavior, to the accuracy of the documents, and the ability to see the bigger picture was covered. Satan would love nothing more than to make this process frustrating and tiring. he wants us to question why we are putting all this effort out and why we are even doing all this in the first place. We will not allow him to have an inch more! We just pray the name of Jesus over every detail and let the Lord remind us of the end result. Sometimes it;s hard to keep our hearts on the fruit of our efforts, but we know one day that this will all be a faded memory, replaced by the giggle of a brown-eyed baby girl.
Please join us as we pray that the things we sent to ATL arrive there safely, are accurate, and return to us safely. Please pray that our fingerprint appointment in ATL is a time that works for Jay's schedule. Thank you guys so much!!!
Monday, February 25, 2008
Guess what I got today!???
OUR HOMESTUDY!!! YEAH!!!!!
So tommorow I'm going to send it off to Atlanta USCIS with our big check and application. Also, I'm headed to the county courthouse to have documents certified and sending them overnight to Atlanta for State Certification (one of the notaries expires soon so it needs to be certified ASAP). Hopefully within the week we'll get a confirmation and a fingerprint appointment.
Hang on for the ride everyone, it's going to move fast from here on out so we can be DTC!!!
Also, please being praying now for a QUICK 1-600A Approval...this comes after our fingerprints are taken and the word "quick" is not associated with USCIS very often....we are praying for less than a 6 week turnaround. Depends on how busy they are.
So tommorow I'm going to send it off to Atlanta USCIS with our big check and application. Also, I'm headed to the county courthouse to have documents certified and sending them overnight to Atlanta for State Certification (one of the notaries expires soon so it needs to be certified ASAP). Hopefully within the week we'll get a confirmation and a fingerprint appointment.
Hang on for the ride everyone, it's going to move fast from here on out so we can be DTC!!!
Also, please being praying now for a QUICK 1-600A Approval...this comes after our fingerprints are taken and the word "quick" is not associated with USCIS very often....we are praying for less than a 6 week turnaround. Depends on how busy they are.
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