14 days and counting

I can't believe tomorrow is October! I thought October would never get here! This is a busy month for us-Morgan turns "18", our dossier will be submitted on the
14th, we have a wedding in Texas on the 23rd,a wedding in Lafayette on the 30th and Fun Fest on the 31st. Wow! This month will go by so fast which will be Great due to the fact that we will be waiting for a date to travel to Ukraine. So, excited and can't wait to see how God continues to bless our family!

Fundraiser Today!!!

I can't imagine how people survive daily without a personal relationship with Christ and without a church family. Today our Sunday School sponsored a hamburger luncheon fundraiser to benefit our adoption. My prayer was, Lord if we just raised $500.00 that would be Great! Well, once again our Lord prevailed and $3,250.00 was raised!!! God is so much bigger than money and has every thing under control even when we don't. Our God is amazing! Thank You to our Sunday School class for all the volunteer hours that they put into this fundraiser. We can't wait for our new family member to meet all of you. Thank You to Steve Teel for cooking all of those burgers-they were Great! Thank You to our church family that supported the luncheon and for your prayers during our journey. Thank You to everyone for the difference that you are making in our family and to the life of a child.
WE LOVE YOU ALL!

Not Now!

Thank You to everyone that prayed for parliament and the moratorium on international adoptions--it was put off until a later date. God is Good all the time! Thanks for all the prayers.

Awesome God!

Lord,

You never cease to Amaze us! Just about the time we allow things to cloud our Faith-You send someone into our lives just to say You have everything under control. We Love You Lord and Thank You for allowing us to be such a part of an Awesome Journey.

NEWS! NEWS FLASH!

Prayer Warriors,

We found out today that the Parliament will be voting next Tuesday on a moratorium to stop international adoptions. I need you all praying that this does not PASS! This will cause precious children to not be placed in families-they will be deprived of having a family and a home to call theirs. Just pray that parliaments hearts are softened. Our agency does not seem that it will pass but it doesn't hurt to pray no matter what. This same thing came up in June but it failed! Praise God! We know that God is in control and He has gone before us already. He holds tomorrow! I will keep you posted.

FINALLY!

It has taken me a while but I have found out how to put our thermometer and donate button on our blog. WOOHOO! If you would like to donate to our adoption check out the donate button. All donations are tax deductible and will go toward our adoption. Please make sure that our name is on your adoption donation.

Travel Packet

We received our travel packet today! Awesome! Exciting to know that the day is growing closer. Please pray as we continue to prepare for our child and please pray for Morgan and Mitchell as they begin to prepare for mom and dad to be leaving them for a long time.

Thermometer

Ok-I have added a thermometer that let's everyone know how much money we need to complete our funds for Ukraine but it is still under construction so bare with me.

It's Beginning.....

I received some news today about our dossier paperwork so it goes like this...Kirk's fingerprints are older than 6 months old, so today off to the court house to do them again and they are already in the mail to Louisiana State Police (WooHoo). The next thing was that the date on Kirk's medical form the number 2 looked like a 7 and our agency could not convince them that the date was correct so on Tuesday we will have medical records for Kirk redone. The last thing was something to do with our home study and that can be fixed on Tuesday also. Being a holiday weekend it will just put us a few days behind but everything should be just fine.
I am so glad that we mailed our paperwork off early so now we have time to fix these minor details.
Just pray that all 3 documents will come back to us correct and in a timely matter.
God has our paperwork in His hands! He holds our today, tomorrrow and the future!

Little Blessings

I must share what happened at church tonight. Kirk teaches RA's at our church which are young boys from grades Kindergarten to Second. We talk alot about our adoption at church and the children are always asking when are we bringing home our new child? One little boy (Langley) in Kirk's class recently celebrated his birthday. I must mention that this little boy and his family are going to Disney on vacation and each child has to save their own money to spend at disney.
Langley had his birthday party and it came time to open his gifts; he opened and envelope which contained money. His mother asked, Langley what are you going to do with that money?" His mother expecting him to say spend it at disney but that was not his response. He said, "I am giving this $6.00 to Mr. Kirk to buy his plane ticket to Ukraine." WOW! WOW! How Amazing!
What a powerful statement that a six year old made. What a heart he has for saving a child's life. What a witness!
This reminds me that God is in the small and big things. Big blessings come in small packages!