Easter Fun

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The Long and Winding Road...of Adoption

We have been Gladney approved! All of our paperwork for Glsdney is done. Our homestudy should be in the hands of the state. All of our dossier paperwork is in the mail and should be to KBS Dossier early next week. Now we have to wait on state, CIS, approval and finger printing for CIS. Then we are on to the wait list!!!! Troy and I are so excited to be mostly done with the paperwork. There were several documents that were such a pain to get completed. Oh well, we are just happy to be where we are in the process. We will keep you updated as to when we get CIS approval.

March Fun

Here is a video of some of the things the kids have done in March. Collette has started playing soccer with Tyler. Their team name is the Tigers. They are pretty good at the sport and they like to play. Collette is still doing very well with homeschool. She loves to write her letters. She is starting to learn how to write her lower case letters. She is also doing good with counting higher and recognizing numbers. Dakota is getting so big. He can walk really well now and he prefers that to crawling. He is getting close to running...watch out. He loves to play catch and to throw the ball. He throws it and then just giggles. It is so cute.

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Adoption stuff: We are going to be sending all of our dossier paperwork to KBS Dossier as of tomorrow! There were 2 pieces of paper holding us up. We finally got those taken care of today. We got an email today stating that the final copy of our homestudy has been sent to Gladney. Hopefully by the end of this week it will be on its way to CIS. Then we have to wait for CIS approval. It takes roughly 60 days once they get our homestudy. We are getting closer to being on the waiting list. Please pray that all of this goes fast and smooth. We are really tired of doing paperwork...no really, it sucks.

Down Memory Lane

I was at church tonight and I got a little sidetracked. I didn't make it to class on time so I spent most of my night talking to others in the hall...I know, don't judge. Anyway, I was in the library looking for some books on baptism, for our children's ministry. I ran across some old pics from VBS 1970 and lots of other events. Among the pictures there was a Church of Christ directory from 1970. I cracked it open and there on the first page was an advertisement for a friend of my grandfathers. I thought, oh my, how cool is this. I continued to thumb through the directory and found several names that stood out including my Dad's family, when he was in high school. I turned the page and that's where I saw this add:


I was so excited to see this. This is my Great Grandmother, Mary Smith. She was an Interior Designer for Sears. It was so cool to see this pic and so many memories resurfaced as I looked at it. It was great to walk down memory lane and to see some familiar faces. I remember all the dolls that my she made for us. The countless number of sleepovers that we had at her house. All of her beautiful clothes that she kept in her cedar closet, I can still smell it. Her hot pink round bed with matching curtains. Playing the organ for hours at her house. Mostly, I remember her love for us. I love and miss you, Grandmother Smith. It was great to relive old memories. I hope that my family enjoys this as much as I did.



New post about the kiddos and our family soon! Sorry for the wait.