Russia

After much prayer Jason and I have decided to change countries. We are now adopting from Russia instead of Albania. I am very excited about this change. We had not felt settled about Albania but did not want to rush to make a decision but this is something we had been thinking about for a little while. The Albania program is taking about 3 years or so for a young healthy referral. Bethany does more older and special needs referrals out of Albania and are one of the last to get young healthy referral, which is something we didn't know when we started out. But would I do it over again? You bet, I experienced a wonderful trip to Albania and met some amazing people. I have friends that I met through this process that I hope to be in contact with for a long long time. And in the past year and a half God has not stopped growing me and opening my eyes, it's just time for us to go down a different road.

As far as Russia goes, the wait time is 6-8 months and they are needing families for the Russia program. We started our dossier today and it will be completed next Tuesday and mailed to Michigan. There is only one more family with a dossier submitted to the program we are going through, but there are 8 families in the process, so I'm hoping our dossier gets approved and translated quickly so we can be next in line. But we've waited this long, it's all in God's timing! With Russia, it seems like if you don't dot your I's correctly they will send your paperwork back, so please say a quick prayer that our paperwork will not have any hold up's or be sent back. Thank you all for your love and support!

Update

This kitten was asleep on the radio while the radio was blasting!!!

Sorry it's been so long since I've posted anything, I'll try to do better! I don't have much information in regards to the adoption. It's taking a lot longer than we expected, the last family to get a referral waited 3 years.

What's gone on since the last post?

Jason had a birthday on May 23rd.

Our 5th year wedding anniversary was June 6th, which we spent working and then I left for North Carolina with my sister for an AAU basketball tournament. Came home on Sunday and we spent the afternoon together picking up hay in the hay field, doesn't that sound romantic!! These past 5 years have flown by and I love him more every day!

I have been busy with horse camp and lessons. The last week of this month we will spend showing at the Ranch Horse World Show. Jason has been very busy with work, they are in full swing. We are just hoping we don't have a drought like we did last year.

We have a new addition to our family, he's furry with 4 legs!! His name is Andy (our favorite show is Andy Griffith). He's is so cute and funny, I'm having a blast with him, he loves the kittens at the barn and begs me to put him in the trough to play in the water.