VBS

I finally have my computer back in action so hopefully not many more pictureless posts!  This week we are having VBS and it is my first one ever to work.  Since I was 19 I have worked afternoons so I've never been able to consistantly be a part of one.  Until this week!  It's been hustle and bustle but it's been worth it!  I have loved it.  And tonight because we met and hugely exceeded our goal in the offering I got to smear whipped cream and pour chocolate syrup on Jason's head!  I might have enjoyed it a little ;) 

Adoption update...I have our hotel booked and our visas should be back to us either tomorrow or beginning of next week.  I am waiting to see if ticket prices drop a little before I purchase them.  Today was the first I've seen them drop. 

I'm excited to go tomorrow morning and hang out with a friend as she helps me get started on homeschooling.  I can't believe my boy is going to be in kindergarten!  I've been looking at so much stuff online, so many options!  It excites me though!

There will be another work day at the parsonage on Saturday and their goal is to get the entire house painted which totally thrills me!  We are buying a bed and dresser from some friends and then were given another dresser and so I hope to get those painted this weekend.  Heath will have the furniture that she uses now, which of course was Hudson's.  I'm in total nesting mode so I can't wait to get all of this organized! 

Court Date

We have a court date FINALLY!  We will fly out on July 22nd and go to court on Wed. the 25th.  I am so glad to finally have something.  So then we will have our 30 day period, which puts us on a Saturday.  She told me that we couldn't pick him up on a Sat. and I told her we picked Hudson up on a Sat. so she said she would check and see about that.  So that will put us either bringing him home on August 31st or Sep. 1st.  Not sure which one just yet.  I cannot wait to come down that escalator at the airport and be home!!  For now I am going to busy myself with getting our visas, hotel room, tickets, and getting ready to move!

A little news...

Sorry I have no pictures to post.  My computer is headed to get some work done on it and I am on Jason's.  We should know our court date on Friday.  They are presenting our documents on Thursday to the judge.  Our friends that we traveled with the first trip received their court dates this last Friday.  While I am so excited for them, it just stunk because their court date is not until the middle of July.  Which of course means ours will be after theirs.  I was so pumped about a June court date that it took me a couple of days to work through this.  I was hoping he would be home by the time we were going to court.  I know it might not seem like a big deal or seem like a little thing to get upset over.  I told myself all of the things that anyone would have said to me and have tried to find the positive things in this (I can't find any by the way).  I just want him home.  Like, yesterday!  I am looking forward to Friday so then I will have a date to look forward to and get prepared for.  I am extremely busy with work and other things, but it is not distracting like I need it to be! 

We have decided to move out of our home the first part of July and move into the parsonage.  We are truly hoping our house sells quickly, we have had several lookers but no offers so far.  We feel like we need to go ahead to the parsonage because Heath will have to make so many adjustments anyways we don't want him to have to come home and get used to a place and then up and move him. 

This last week was my first week to clean the church, I will be doing that every week now!  Hudson and Jason will be doing VBS at Bethel this week and next week it is VBS at our church!  I am hoping to get to take Hudson to a few of the cheap summer movies they do in Clarksville, (if you are local it's the movie theater off of exit 1 and they are $1.50, Tues. @ 9:30).  I am signing him up for homeschooling today!  Also, this last Wed. was our 9 year wedding anniversary, we are getting old!

Okay, enough randomness for now, I will update Friday after we get our court date!  Thanks for your continued prayers.  

Yard Sale Success!

The yard sale was definitely a success!  We ended up with around $830, combine that with the yard sale we had at our home and it is around $2,000!  WOOHOO!  Thank you so much to those of you who donated your items to sell and for those of you who came out.  I have tried to be transparent on here about all of this, and I read other blogs that even have $ counters on the side of them so people can see how much is raised and how much is needed.  I hope if you are considering adoption but scared of the financial part of it, you won't be.  My prayer when we returned home a little over a month ago was for the Lord to of course get us a quick court date and to provide the $10,500 we needed before our 2nd trip.  There is only a little under $1,000 left to have that!  And we can't take credit for a single penny of it, it's all Him!  After this goal is complete we'll start on the remaining bit of $15,000 (this includes hotel, plane tickets, etc.).  It seems huge in my eyes but not to Him.  I don't know how He's going to do it, I just trust that He will!

Every time the phone rings, I jump just hoping it is our agency.  I'm really expecting our call any day now b/c I'm reallly hoping to make our 3rd trip by the time he turns 1.  Of course I'll post as soon as I get the call :)