One Year.

It was exactly one year ago today that we submitted our application to our agency. I try so hard to remember what I felt that day, but this past year has been such a blur. I remember feelings of excitement, fear, and lots of nervousness. I remember thinking, "but what if they say no?" We had already had an amazing call with our Haiti coordinator, Meredith, which solidified everything we believed...this was our agency. This was the one that we wanted advocating for us. For our children. We had zero doubts that they would be the best fit for us. For all that God had laid on our hearts in orphan care.

Speaking of orphan care, I wanted to share a little bit about what has been laid on our hearts. We knew when we started our adoption that we didn't want to take away someone's child. That's hard to understand here in the U.S., but in international adoption, especially in third world countries, there are so many children that aren't true orphans. Meaning, they have living family that WANT them, but they are just unable to care for them so they do what they feel is best and bring them to an orphanage where they know they will be fed and sheltered. I love that orphanages can provide a safe place for families, but I don't love that many people feel that this means the children need homes. Because they don't. They have a home. We have become so passionate about finding programs and organizations that work to reunify families. They teach the parents skills so that they can find jobs and then are able to care for their own families. Anyway, all this to say, we are just so thankful for our agency and how they have walked with us each step of the way this past year. Through lots of excitement, but an awful lot of tears.

So, here we are. One year later. Do you want to hear our exciting update???

June 30, 2015

Our Home Study was finally in our hands!!!
And then we turned around and shipped it off to immigration!

Home Study!!! 

Paperwork sent to immigration with these two 

We have had all of our paperwork ready to go, we just couldn't move forward AT ALL until we had our Home Study. You can imagine the celebrating that followed when it arrived. With it, we were able to apply for immigration and can now go get our paperwork authenticated and sent with our dossier. And we can also begin to apply for grants!

"Ice cream" to celebrate

Haitian inspired red beans and rice for our celebration dinner

July 1, 2015

All of our documents for our dossier are IN. We had dreams of being able to send everything today, but had a pretty big setback with one of the required documents. But, PRAISE THE LORD, everything was done TODAY. So, we will be getting all of our documents authenticated tomorrow and then shipped off to our agency! They will begin to do all of their part of the work with translating and legalizing and all of that and then our dossier should be in Haiti so very soon.

I wish there was an expression to show just how over the moon excited we are right now. We have gone through so much heartache and setbacks and things are finally moving at rapid pace and we are so thankful for that. My heart is soaring!


As far as fundraising, another PRAISE THE LORD, we raised enough to send our dossier right on time! We started off needing SO much and then the Lord provided all of it.

I will update again soon!

WE ARE COMING FOR YOU LITTLE ONE!!!