If at first you don't succeed......

Although are house is filled with much disappointment at this time we are pressing forward. When we started all of this we told ourselves that if it is meant to happen it will. Everything happens for a reason. We might not always like the way things turn out but we have to accept them. Do we give up? Absolutely NOT! We truly believe that there are kids out there just waiting for us. When the time is right it will happen. This is a learning and growing experience and we are truly grateful for all those that have been by our side. Because if at first you don't succeed, try try again. :)

Home Study Done :) but kids placed elsewhere:(

Well we passed the home study without issue. We have the fence finished around the pool, the beds ready, now we are ready for the kids. Unfortunately we learned today the children we have been trying to adopt were placed last week =( . So angry that the state couldn't have done their home study sooner (they still wont do theirs until Feb 22nd) so they could have been placed with us. So a bit of a emotional & frustrating week. We will be holding the spaghetti dinner and silent auction on March 1st to raise funds for fees for the children we do get to adopt. Any extra funds received will go to the Utah Foster Care Foundation to help the children looking for homes. Please let us know if you haven't already if you are coming to the dinner, so we can put together a head count. We have been receiving many items to auction off from a photo session to dinners to Boondocks tickets. If you have any contacts at please let us know and we will contact them. Thanks again to everyone for all your support I want to say a big THANKS to all those who have donated and offered your help & services to complete the adoption, we appreciate it more than we can express. ;

It's Official!!

We have officially scheduled our home study for next Monday the 28th. I thought this day would never come. :) So happy!! We have also scheduled our Spaghetti dinner/Silent Auction for March 1st. Things just seem to be falling into place today. Also this morning Todd spoke with someone about S&S and they are going to speak with their caseworker. She told us she would let them know we are extremely interested. So now what we need is a lot of help. If you can't donate $$ then please donate stuff to our auction or our Spaghetti dinner. We will need a lot of help with that. So keep us in your thoughts and prayers and keep those fingers crossed!

StReSs

I can officially say that I pretty much suck at waiting! I have no patience! It feels like it has been forever since anything has happened. Waiting for all this legal stuff is no fun. I try not to think about it 24/7 but it's hard. The days that I check the website for more info on these two kids, my heart aches. If they were to be adopted before we had the chance I would be crushed. :( I mean a part of me would be happy that they no longer have to be without a family but a huge part of me would be devastated because it wasn't our family. I know that everything happens for a reason and if it wasn't meant to be with these kids then it won't happen. I try to stay positive but some days it's hard. I almost don't want to look for fear of them being gone. We are hoping that the next week or so we can make some pretty good progress. Once again a big thanks to all those that have donated funds it has truly helped. We will be forever grateful. Remember the donate button is just to the right of this post! :) Look for our Spaghetti dinner to be coming in February! We are going to need a lot of HELP. Both with the food and with donations for the silent action. If you have a business or know of anyone that does and would be willing to donate items please contact us. If you would like to help with food please let us know. We are so lucky to have such great friends and family. We love all of you!

Still Waiting

Well we finally have been notified by the State of Utah that they have completed the background checks so we have tentatively scheduled our foster homestudy for late February.... We have finished putting in the posts for the fence around the pool and by the end of next week will have the fence completed (couldnt finish this week because of the snow storm). We should be scheduling the adoption homestudy within the next 3 weeks. We are hoping the kids we want to adopt will still be available by the time this part gets done!!!! Once the homestudy is done it could be anytime that we would be able to get the kids. We are so looking forward to that day. The only down side are all the fees associated with adoption. Depending on the kids and where they are located it could be as much as 10k per child (yikes)!!!! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

The reason why?

Most of you are probably wondering why we want to adopt???? Well, let me tell you a little bit of the reason. I had Caitlin who I adore 100% and then I had tanner who I also adore 100%. Then Todd and I figured we had one of each so there really wasn't a reason to have anymore kids. In fact the doctor told me "Now that you have one of each you will have to shoot for colors next". hahahaha!! We never really saw a reason to have more. The day my brother passed away I spent most of it at the hospital from severe cramping where they discovered I had cysts on my ovaries. Time went by and I continued to have severe cramping and bleeding. After time I finally went back to the doctors and they did an ultrasound and discovered that I had Endometriosis and bloody cysts on my ovaries that were the size of grapefruits. That lead to my complete hysterectomy which did take care of all the problems. At the time our little family was great. We didn't feel the need to have anymore kids and we were happy. But as time went on it felt like something was missing. That something was more kids to love. Skip to today and that is the reason WHY we are adopting. We want to add to our little family and share all this love we have with some kids that have never had that chance to feel the love of a family. I hope that you all can support us in this adventure.

Getting Closer

We spoke with the agency about our home study and she said that we hopefully can get it completed after the ML holiday. That would be fantastic!! Of course I'm not going to hold my breath on anything, but that is as close as we have ever gotten. :) Today in the below 20 degrees temperature we are putting in fence posts. Can we just say not fun and COLD!! But it has to be done. Hope that the cement will at least dry. :) Also we are looking for a place to hold our Spaghetti Dinner. Does anyone know of a good place that would be cheap or even better FREE. :) Thanks again for all your support and don't forget the donate button just to the right.

2013

You could say that we make resolutions just to break them. So I don't usually make them. Why not have goals all year instead of waiting until a new year starts. But this year our family actually made a goal. I'm sure that most of you can guess what it is! :) But in case you are not sure let me fill you in. Our family goal for 2013 is to bring this 2 wonderful kids into our home. We are still on schedule and getting things taken care of. Each day brings us closer to the end. We would still LOVE all the support we can get. Don't forget there is a DONATE button on this blog for you to help out. Every little bit helps. We are also looking into doing a Spaghetti Dinner and some other fundraisers. So watch for those. Happy 2013 to all of you!!