A few pictures from Christmas in Georgia. I think the boys need to go on a diet.

Adoption Update: Praise- We'll be mailing our dossier in tomorrow, the amount we needed was actually less than we were anticipating. We are thankful for the Lord providing the needed funds. Our completed homestudy should be in next week, the holidays make things take a little longer. Once our homestudy is in we'll be able to apply for some grants. We need a certain amount before we'll be able to accept a referral. We are still interested in the little boys on the waiting list. There are only 3 boys instead of 4, one was accepted by another family. I sent the medical records of these 3 boys to the international adoption clinic today. We are not sure which of the 2 boys we're most interested in. We'll wait and see which of them are still available when the needed amount has been received.

 

 

It looks like this basement is going to have to be turned into a bedroom after all. The question now is-whose bedroom will it be?

Happy Birthday Keith!

 

 

Tomorrow is Keith's birthday, so I decided to bake him a cake. I thought I would experiment and try to bake him a multi-layer cake, but it didn't quite turn out like I expected. One layer was too thin on one side, so we ended up just eating it out of the pan. I didn't have enough icing either, that's why you are only seeing the view from the top. It's the thought that counts right?

 

 

 

A few Christmas pictures.

Adoption Update: We have all of the documents for the homestudy and should be receiving the last document for the dossier any day now. Next, we'll send the dossier to the adoption agency to look over to see if we need to make any corrections. Once our homestudy and dossier are approved and our fees are paid we'll be matched up with the children on the "waiting child" list that we're praying about or we'll request to wait for a referral of a specific sex/age of two children. It will be significantly faster to accept the two boys on the "waiting child" list. We have contacted an adoption clinic here that is going to look at their medical tests to give us their opinion on the health of these boys. One boy is 3 and the other is 4, I can't put their pictures on here, but they're cute boys.

 

 

Our Christmas tree looks better in person, it looks pretty skinny in this picture.

Adoption Update:
We have our one and only homestudy meeting tonight. The dossier is coming along nicely, I am waiting on only a couple of things. As soon as our homestudy is completed we are able to apply for adoption grants.

Pho

 

Keith made us a nice pot of Pho for supper. It's still hard for me to eat this after 3 years. It seemed like all 27 days that we were in Vietnam, we ate this at least once a day.

Adoption Update: We started on our dossier and everything is going well so far. We will have our homestudy visit on December 1st, we only have one visit this time since it's going to be just an update. We originally requested 2 girls, but this probably is not going to happen unless a sibling group of 2 girls comes open. It seems that people are more willing to adopt girls, so already having two boys, I just know how sweet boys can be, so we may end up with two more boys. Race would love to have some basketball competition, I'm sure.

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