Dakota's 1st Birthday Party!

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Two weeks and counting!!!

So far this week has been a good one. I was offered a job at Mercy in L&D!!!(I accepted it) I officially start on January 7th. I had my last clinical for nursing school...thank goodness. Don't get me wrong, I think that clinicals are useful and we learn. They are just very time consuming and its just another thing to do in my week. Then yesterday we had a NCLEX comp predictor test. I passed and it said that I had a 97% chance of passing the NCLEX!!! So, my week has been going well as you can tell. Now all I have is 2 weeks of school left, not counting Thanksgiving. For the next couple of weeks I will be studying and praying that God will get me through the rest of this semester. God is so good and does such wonderful things!

Dakota's party is this Saturday. I can't believe that he is almost a year old. I feel like time has just flown by. My friends had a precious baby boy a week ago and it just brought back so many memories of my tiny baby. Here is a look at Dakota over the year.

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Collette is excelling in homeschool. They have learned so much this year and it has reaffirmed to me that this is the right thing for our kids. I think we are going to look for a soccer league that she can join in January. She seems to be interested so we are going to give it a shot. I will have to get some video of her showing off what all she has been up to.

Halloween 2008

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Back on track

Ok, so everything is back on track with the adoption stuff. We ended up submitting our app via internet. We recieved an email and a phone call the very next day. So we set up our phone orientation for the following Monday. On Monday we talked for about 30 minutes about applications, when to send things, where to send things, and of course the cost. It doesn't seem so overwhelming until you get off the phone and look at each other perplexed and think "What did she say?". Anyway, we made notes and I think that we have most of it straight. So, Tuesday we sent off the application to adopt internationally. Then last night we got our I-600A form filled out and gatherd all of the appropriate docs. Then FedEx picked that up today. Which I have to plug FedEx online service. It is so easy and they pick things up right at your front door! Too cool! Next is homestudy and more and more paperwork!
More to come! I will post Halloween pics of the kiddos this weekend.

Oh and I got a B on my test tonight!!! Things are looking up.

Fall pics!

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No news is bad news...

...at least that is the case when you are applying for adoption. Troy and I sent in our apllication on the 11th of this month. We certified it and everything so that we would know when it arrived. So, we watched it for awhile, knowing that tracking on USPS is sometimes a day or two behind. Several days went by and no action on the site. So, Troy calls the post office and they say that they are going to look into it and get back to us within one day. Well, the next day there is no return call. Troy calls yet again and they still don't know what happened. Tonight I got home and just decided that we needed to start over. I pulled up the online application and proceeded to fill it out, again. It has been submitted and our family picture has been sent. Hopefully we will hear something in the not too distant future. Please continue to pray for this adoption and that God will bless us with another healthy baby!
In other news, I have some pumkin patch pics that I will post soon.