I am Still alive

Hey girls!

I just got onto this blog again after probably 1 month 1/2 absence so I just thought I'd write. It has been fun catching up on your lives, even though as I sit here, my kids are probably destroying my house!! :) Oh Well!!

Last night I was sitting in church, appreciating Uncle Denny's sermon - talking about faith and God's will, and I starting thinking about our adoption. Then it hit me! I've been always talking about getting our referral (the picture of our child) in the distant future. But the future is quickly becoming the present! We have all of our paperwork compiled and are just waiting for Immigration to approve our homestudy. At this point, we have to get our documents notarized, authenticated, and legalized and then we are ready for our referral. We could be looking at a picture of our son, in less than 1 month!!!! AHHH! Can you believe it?? I can't! :) It's a little scary, exciting, unknown, scary, exciting... you get the idea.

Please pray that God will show us clearly who our son is - we can accept or decline any referral. Pray that we will have continued confirmations as we go along in this process. God has called us to be faithful and we are excited to be in this position but we definately have some anxieties. I'm a little nervous about his medical background. We are supposed to get complete medical history but obviously things could go differently. Also, I'm a little nervous about having 3 children!! We will not be going to get him until on average 4-6 months after we get the referral. Again, anything could happen, it could be 3 months, it could be a year. Another concern is that the birthmother sees him 3-4 different times throughout the process to sign papers and can stop the process and take him back at anytime. Once we choose our referral, we will have our hearts set on him and that would be hard.

Adoption is so unknown and things can change at any time. We plan for the best but have to be realistic too! Please pray for us and we soon enter this new phase of adoption. I thought the paperwork was stressful but once we know who our son is....it creates a whole new dynamic! It is pretty awesome though. I already love him as my boy and pray for him everyday.

Paige talks about him a lot too. She insists that his name IS Guatemala. We are going to name him Hudson David but she told me yesterday that we can call him Hudson but she will call him Guatemala! Some friends asked her if she prays for her brother, she said - "No! I pray to the God of Heaven!!" I love my girl! :)

I love you all too! Sorry for such a long post. I'm making up for lost time! Have a great day!

love,
Jami