The Ball is Rolling...FINALLY!

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Hallelujah!!!!! Our Home Study has been approved by our adoption agency!  

So glad to have this part of our adoption process complete and we are SO READY to start the next step!  

We have several steps left in our adoption process and now that our Home Study has been formally approved by our adoption agency (or placing agency) now we can get the ball rolling! 

So you may be wondering...

After we get original, notarized, signed copies of our Home Study we will submit an application to the USCIS.  This application is called the i800a and the USCIS, aka homeland security, will review it along with our home study and schedule Jeff and I to be fingerprinted at their office.  We PRAY that we are blessed with a USCIS officer that has a true heart for adoption so we can get our process with them done quickly.  After we get our i800a approval then we will send all of our documents to be certified by the Secretary of State and authenticated by the Ch*n*se consulate.  When that is all complete then we will send ALL of those documents to Ch*n* also known as DTC.

  We are really excited to get DTC!!!! Once we have that then we can relax 

a little!

One other great blessing with having our home study approved by our adoption agency is that when it is in our hands we can start applying for grants!  Praise the Lord for those awesome organizations that offer grants to adoptive families!  It will be a while before we hear anything on them, I've heard it can take several months to hear if you've been approved for them.

For now we are plugging away at our FUNDRAISING!  We are still selling these COOL t- shirts:  Proceeds for EACH shirt sold will go towards our adoption fund!  Click on the box below to go to our store and see all of the other amazing styles we offer!

We currently need to raise $4,020 to get our next step accomplished!  We are doing EVERYTHING we can do to raise this money for Meiya.  We are having a garage sale on June 8 and 9th to raise funds. If you live in our area and have stuff you'd like to donate to our sale we would really appreciate it.  Please email me if you live in the Martinsburg area for directions.  We appreciate any prayers and help that we can get.  It means a lot to us!  We are grateful to all of you who have prayed for our adoption and for Meiya.  We are also grateful to all of you who have supported us through giving and through our fundraisers.  Our dream and prayer is to get Meiya home THIS year!!!  Nothing is impossible for God!  He is in FULL control of everything in this world because this is HIS world not ours!  He can change the hearts of kings, He can move mountains! We are fully trusting in Him to see us through!

BEAUTIFUL!

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I am in LOVE with THIS print!  I want it!  

I am doing a lot of research and asking a lot of my adoption friends if they know what the name of this beautiful print is and where can I get it.  I've never seen a print like this of Jesus with Asian children before.  I LOVE it! If anyone knows the name of it or where I can buy it PLEASE let me know!

Sweet Frog Spirit Night!

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On Monday, we had our second Spirit Night Fundraiser. 

This time at Sweet Frog!

If you are not familiar with Sweet Frog it is a frozen yogurt cafe.  So YUMMY!

Hannah and Hailee wore their new T-shirts that say "I Love my sister in Ch*na" with their Mieya red thread bracelets.

All in all we had a pretty good turn out!  I think we did pretty well!  We met a lot of sweet people who loved the fact that we are adopting and they commented on how adorable Meiya is, who can blame them?  Have you seen this precious face?  She gives me goosies every time I look at her pictures! 

As far as our process, we are hoping to get our home study turned in to our agency NOW THIS week!  Yes, we are still waiting on it (84 days to be exact) but we know it will happen.  It MUST happen this week.  I am running out of patience!  We should have our DTC right now but sadly, we do not!  Nobody's fault!   Just the devil throwing wrenches and God is always right there throwing them back at him.  God is in control, this I know!  
He will make a way!

I LOVE this!  I need to tattoo it on my forehead hang it up all over my house because I am so guilty of feeling alone and defeated.  I get angry!  I won't lie!  I get really angry because of how things are moving at a snails pace!  I see other's who started the adoption process when we did and already have DTC!  We do not even have our stinkin home study turned into our agency yet!  It is frustrating!  But God keeps reminding me that this is HIS world and HE is in control of everything!  Nothing is impossible for Him!  He will see to it that we get our sweet Meiya home soon!  He knows what she needs.  She is His child created in His image. I need to trust Him and let Him take the wheel.  It is going to happen in His timing.

T-Shirts Fundraiser!

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Today we are so excited because our AdoptionBug T-shirt store is open and ready for business!  This is our first official fundraiser that we have started for our adoption. Please click on the box below and it will take you directly to our store.  This is an awesome opportunity for you to help us bring Meiya home! Oh and the shirts are cool!  We have 6 different styles to choose from!  Did I mention how cool they are?