Home Study

Well, Amy from Gladney called us on Monday to schedule our homestudy for this Friday. It starts at 8am and lasts about 4 hours. It was a little quicker than we expected but it will be nice to have it out of the way before school starts up. I'm going by the fire department to get some professional advice on fire escape ladders. Then I'll need to go purchase one as well as one more fire extinguisher for the upstairs. Other than that I think we're pretty much covered. We had a great time in Port A. I'll post the pictures soon.

Gladney App. 2&3

Today I sent off parts 2&3 of our Gladney application minus our health forms. Our doctor's appointment isn't until August 5th. But it does feel good to have most of it completed.

This weekend we're going to Port Aransas in the midst of "Dolly." It should be interesting. Hopefully, it will clear up by Friday. So far no rain here in Austin which is good because Miley has obedience class tonight. Above she is obediently posing for a picture....

I'm off to make Munchy Crunchy cookies. If you like chocolate chip cookies you should google this recipe.

More Progress

Today I got the bank letter for our dossier and Miley's vaccination records for Gladney. Tomorrow I go to pick up my employer letter (again, my fault), I got brent's today. Brent is going to arrange our FBI fingerprints for next week. I'm hoping that my insurance company has faxed the letter that verifies my coverage to Gladney.
The paperwork is beginning to seem somewhat manageable and we're so HAPPY to be using Kate at KBS Dossiers. I might be speaking too soon but so far everyone at the various places I've had to get notarized letters from have been EXTREMELY helpful which makes the paperchasing process quite bearable and exctiting!
That's all for now!

Longing for the Word

So, brent has been preparing a lesson on longing for the "pure milk" of the Word for a teaching class he is in at church. I guess Miley thought she'd help him out with an illustration by shredding the very page he was teaching on. Oops!

As far as the adoption goes, we've now begun collecting documents for our dossier such as an employer letter, bank letter, references etc. We're also waiting on a call to schedule our homestudy in the next 30 days.

I forgot to mention this last time in case anyone is wondering what age/gender the child will be. We didn't pick a gender (we'll let God decide) and the age range we chose is 4months-18months. We're so excited!

Lots to be Done

Well, today I started working on our official Gladney Application. They have it broken down into three chunks. I'm a little overwhelmed b/c I was reading through the Dossier Manual as well and it's all a little confusing and complicated right now. So far we have our doctor's appointment on August 5th. Not too much progress...yet :)