Yay! Profile Time!!

Thanks SO much for all of your prayers. We passed both the health inspection and the fire safety inspection. Now our next big task is to create our profile- which is the scrapbook that we will give to the agency. It will be the main tool the birthmom will use to determine if she wants to get matched with us. So again, your prayers would be appreciated. We hope and pray to create a good representation of who we are as a family. The theme we've chosen is A Year In The Life Of Our Family. We will walk through all 4 seasons and show how we celebrate holidays and fun highlights of the different seasonal activities. Thanks again for your support as we look forward to bringing home the newest member of our family!

Inspection Time!

Our inspection done by the health department is scheduled for tomorrow at 1:30pm and the fire safety inspection is set for Friday at 2pm. We'd appreciate your continued prayers that we pass these inspections and get the approval to submit our profile. Thanks so much!

Tying Up Loose Ends

Upon returning Saturday night from a wonderful vacation with my family in the hill country and then at the beach, we got an email from our social worker encouraging us to wrap up all of the loose ends for our adoption certification. She said that several of their birth moms are due in August, so they would love for us to submit our profile as soon as possible. So we are going to try and schedule the fire safety and health inspection for the end of the week. In the meantime we need to clean out and organize our garage which is currently just a big mess. We also need to clear out any cleaning supplies that are underneath sinks and move them to a higher place. We would really appreciate your prayers that we would work diligently and efficiently this week so that we pass they inspection and get to submit our profile soon!

Poked and prodded!

I've never been quite so excited about being poked and prodded with needles, but today Jason and I both got our TB test done and I did my bloodwork for the HIV test! It is SO nice to have that part out of the way. (Well, mostly out of the way. I have to go back to the Dr.'s office in 48 hours so that they can verify that I didn't react to the TB test.)

So now we'll focus on wrapping up paperwork. Lillie's birth certificate arrived, so we just need to make a copy of it. We need to create a floor plan of our home. I looked and looked through all of our materials from when we bought our house and couldn't find one. Weird. But not a problem.

Yesterday's Groupon was for a digital photo book, so I bought it to use for our profile! The idea I am leaning toward for our profile (scrapbook of our family to submit for birth moms to look through so they can decide if they want to pick us) is to do A Year In The Life... and show our family through the different seasons. Thoughts??