2 steps forward 1 step back

The last 6 days have been interesting.... first we get a call from the State Licensing saying the licenser doing the foster home study and safety check had the flu and had to cancel and would reschedule when she returned.... UGgghhh so frustrating after waiting for 3 months. Well she called yesterday and rescheduled for March 8th. After that we should be officially licensed to foster or adopt! There is finally light at the end of the tunnel. We have also signed up for matching assistance, which is a worker that helps us to find a sibling group around the ages we are looking for that are either in foster care currently or legally free for adoption. Now we just inquire on the kids we are wanting to adopt and if their case worker sees fit to select us, we will receive additional information on the kids we want to adopt. Lets just hope the case worker likes what our home study tells about our family. We probably wont be sharing much info on kids we inquire on since it is very devastating to be in the running for kids and telling people about it and then poof, they go somewhere else. So do not be offended if your not reading much about that on the blog for a few weeks. We will let everyone know after we are selected details about kids and when they will be home.......................///////////////////////////////////////.................................. This week is our Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser and cannot thank everyone enough for the support we have received so far. We have had about 130 people signed up to attend, almost 70 items donated for the silent auction. If you come and don't see anything that interests you, we will have donation boxes placed around for you to donate. It will be great to see everyone that is supporting us in this process and thank you in person for everything you have done. Its not to late if you decide to donate something to auction or if you want to come to the dinner. It will be held at our church at 752 North 3700 West in Layton. Come and enjoy some good food, buy some items at the auction and enjoy the company of others. We hope to see you all there!

Thank you

Can I just say how grateful I am to have such amazing friends and family. There has been an overwhelming amount of support and we could never thank you enough. As the Spaghetti Dinner gets closer it feels amazing to know that so many people have stepped up to help out. That is one less thing that I need to worry about. When we started this whole process of adoption they told us that having a big support system will make all the difference. They are 100% right. We would not be where we are at this point without all the love. Just knowing that we can ask for help and have tons of people offer is amazing. I have this vision in my head of how the dinner will go and I know for a fact that with all the help it will turn out to be just what I had imagined. So make sure you join us and bring your wallets to bid on some amazing/fantastic items. Todd told me I can't bid on anything because that would defeat the purpose. So many things I just don't know if I will be able to control myself! Much Love, Heather xoxo

What's Happening?!?

Just a quick update on the auction. Bear River Lodge flaked out on us and backed out!!!! >( But that is not going to stop us! We just received a nights stay at the Courtyard Marriot, YIPPEE!! We have also received certificates for Sills Cafe, C&B Maddox, Burger Stop, Sego Lily gift package and Marilyn Clark donated two hand finished Easter decorations that are super cute!! Still working on other items and hoping to have it all completed by next week. Just a quick reminder if you know of anyone with a small business that would donate or even something you want to donate just let us know. This next coming week we are going to be having our Foster Licensing Home Study (which will be $700 cheaper) that will complete all the home stuff we need to do. Which will bring us one step closer to adopting! If anyone would like to help us serve food at the fundraiser please let us know, we could us a lot of help. :) ***Reminder that if you want to purchase tickets at the cheaper price to let us know you are attending by February 22nd. *** Thanks again for all your support! ♥♥♥

The Search Continues....

Well this week has been an eye opening process. We signed up for a matching service to help us find kids across the country. This allows us to see children that are currently in foster care that are in homes that will not adopt them once they become legally free. It is so sad when you realize so many of these kids will never be adopted and will age out of the foster program and be out on their own. If we could, we would take so many of these poor kids that want a family more than anything, but we have made a choice of age range and a lot of these kids don't fall in that range. We are looking for kids in the range of 2-11 years old. We have put an inquiry in on some kids from Oregon. Now we just wait to see if their case worker will select our family to make a pre-placement visit to Oregon to see the kids and see if they fit. As we found out though, we have to continue looking since the case workers will make the decision solely based on what is in your home study without even talking to us. No matter what we will continue on and find the kids that belong in our family. We know that all things happen for a reason and when the right ones that are meant for us are available , they will come. Just remember the spaghetti dinner coming up on March 1st.... We have many great items that have been donated for the silent auction so bring your check book or cash.. We have Boondocks passes, Photo Session, Outer Beauty Salon Certificate, Outback Gift Certificates, Avon packages, Wood Creation items, Pizza Factory, Custom Wedding Cake, Quilts, Blankets, Kids hair clips/bows, Signed Children's books. Working on more items this week so stay tuned.... Hope to see you all there!!!

What's going on........

Well, we have made a little progress. We have our profile done with an agency that will send it out to other agencies to better our chances of finding the right children. This company also provided us with a ton of other websites where we can see waiting children. These sites were not available to us before. So, our next step is to search the sites and see what happens. Maybe just maybe the right kids will be on there. We are also making more progress on the Silent Auction, we have gotten some pretty amazing things donated but we can always use more. If you feel like you have then means to help us out either by donating money or auction items we will be forever grateful. If you haven't RSVP'd for the dinner the deadline for lower ticket prices is getting closer. So let us know today!

New Opportunities

We have just signed up with a new adoption group, which allows us to search additional states for our new family members. Once our application is approved we will be able to inquire on kids in several more states and allows additional case workers across the country to read our home study and possibly place the children they are currently trying to find a home for. As we found out earlier in the week this process can be difficult, but we will not give up! We will continue to press forward until we find the ones that belong in our family! We just want to thank you all for your continued support and remember if you haven't RSVP'd for the Spaghetti Dinner please do so. We would love to see all of you there on March 1st. Also don't forget that we will be having a silent auction at the dinner and so far we have restaurant certificates, photo sessions, gift sets, Boondocks tickets, Gift Certificate from Outer Beauty Salon, signed children's books, quilts, blankets and still working on more!!!!!