Homestudy, check!

This past Sunday we finished our homestudy!! Yay! I feel like things are taking FOREVER, but we really only turned in our application in the middle of March. We are now waiting on our homestudy worker to type everything from our interviews up & present us to the licensing committee. The licensing committee only meets every Tuesday, so it may be a couple of weeks! I'll keep you updated.

Fun in the Sun...

Summer is here!! Yay!! We are so excited to swim & enjoy the outdoors! Our local waterpark opened up this past weekend! We took the kids & of course they loved every minute of it. We can't wait to take them all the time. I'm coming up on the slow season for my business so we are gearing up to take time as a family. As far as the adoption goes we are still waiting for homestudy. Apparently things are moving slow in the homestudy department.

Easter and....

What a beautiful time of year! We spent this weekend at my parent house to celebrate Easter. The kids played until they fell asleep! They had lots of fun on the trampoline, the boat & the water slide we got. We really took advantage of this amazing Spring weather. We also completed our adoption file & were moved to home study! Yay!! We are now waiting on the homestudy worker to contact us to schedule her visit. At that point she will come out & do an update (everything that has happened since the girl's placement). She will then write up the report & then present us to the homestudy committee! I will keep you guys updated!

Bring on Summer...

Can I just say the Summer can NOT come fast enough! It's been a long, cold, did I say long, winter in South Texas. We had more freezes & snow then I can remember, EVER. We all (mainly me & the girls) spent most of it bundle up & hunkered down in the house with chili & hot chocolate & movies & a fire! The days are getting warm enough to open the windows & let the Spring in. The kids are loving every minute of it but counting down the days until our waterpark opens (less than 4 weeks). As far as our new round of licensing goes, we are waiting for our frequent visitor's background checks to come back as well as a couple of our last reference checks. Once those things are completed we will move to home study!

EEG & Spring!

A few weeks age Delilah had a seizure. It was very short but unexplained. Her pediatrician wanted her to have an EEG done to check for epilepsy etc. Thank God everything came back normal & they still have no real explanation for the seizure. We are also completely done with training!! Yay! We have turned in everything for our new application. Our recruiter is currently working through our application & documents to see what all she needs before we can move on to home study! She should have everything wrapped up hopefully in the next couple of weeks! After that we need to go back to have our home study updated, a fire inspection, TB tests then we will go to the commitee to get approved. I will keep you guys updated!

What's the fuss all about?

              (My new car sticker)

As you probably guessed, were going back to adopt one more time. We have our fingers crossed for another boy. After everything that happened with the kids regarding their bio siblings we realized we really did want one more child. At first we thought we would just wait & see what happened, but ultimately decided to just move on. We can't live our lives waiting for siblings or to see if their bio moms get their life together. We have to live OUR life & live for right now. So at this point I'll tell you where we are in the process. We did have to get re licensed since we were inactive for a year. We turned in our application last week & have been doing our training this week. We go tomorrow for CPR & 1st aid & we will be DONE with training. At that point we just have a bunch of little stuff to gather to complete our file before moving on to home study. I will keep you updated on our progress!

Here we go....

Stay tuned!!