Hello family and friends! We have not updated in a while. Life has been crazy around here, but a good crazy! We spent two weeks in CO! We were blessed by my sil's parents and were able to stay in their home on top of a beautiful mountain for FREE! We have started Peter's "Operation Mouth" process which requires a visit to Dallas every two weeks. Abi and Andrew have both been actively involved in our local children's theater in different ways. (Love Artsview!!) Peter has started flag football and it's so cute..I mean..awesome. ;-) Hunting season is upon us and the kids and dad have been preparing a lot so they can provide meat for our family. And during all this, we have been working on adoption paperwork. Here is where we stand with adoption as of now:
To reuse our dossier, we must have our homestudy and I800A complete. The homestudy was a quick update, medicals and Texas has a new law requiring fingerprinting for those 14 and over in the household for background checks. (sigh) We have done our update, our medicals will be completed Monday and we will be fingerprinted on Tuesday. Jenna, our amazing caseworker for our homestudy, will then furiously work to get that completed and send it to Lifeline. Lifeline will then hurriedly schedule fingerprinting (on a national level) for our I800A. In the meantime, we will be calling our officer for the fingerprinting begging for a quick appointment. Why the rush? Our dossier expiration date is January 14th! We have heard the wait time for all the fingerprinting is 70 days. We do not have that so we are going to be begging. ;-) China needs to receive all this information by that date. When that happens, Lifeline will then asked for Sweet T to be moved to the Special Focus list because the new law in China is that you cannot reuse your dossier for a Special Needs child. So...we need prayers!! We covet your prayers!!! Now on to fundraising....
We will be hosting our big fundraiser on Saturday Nov. 2nd! We are SO excited! We will have multiple vendors set up for Christmas shopping, a bounce house and train for the kids, a soup competition, a bake off, cake walk, movie, popcorn, live music and more! This event is FREE except for $1 entree for the cake walk. We are not hosting this event to just raise money. Yes, that is a plus to this event but we also want to thank everyone for their support and to involve you all in Sweet T's life. If God leads you to give, that would be great! If not, please continue to pray for us! This event will take place at my dad and stepmom's house 900 Stonelake Rd. (please enter from Hamby Rd. not 1845) from 4:30-??? My sister says it's a true party when there is not an end time!
We have also started our puzzle fundraiser for Sweet T! Just as we did for Peter, every $5 you donate to bringing her home, we will write your name on the back of a puzzle piece. It will hang in her room as a forever reminder of how loved she is and how much we prayed for her before she arrived. You may hand us donations, mail them or enter them at our GoFundMe page. Here is the link: http://www.gofundme.com/4z4q40
We cannot thank you enough for all your prayers, support and love! You will never know how much it means to us! We love you all!
Follow our journey as we navigate these trails with Peter who was adopted in January of 2013 and as we begin the process to bring Elise home.
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