Albania Bound

Guess what! I'm going to go to Albania for a mission trip on Dec. 13 and come home on Dec. 23. I will be staying and working with Cydil Waggoner's parents, you can go to www.planters.org and check out where I will be. I am so excited. I will not be visiting any orphanage while I am there, but I will be able to learn so much about our child's heritage and help to spread God's word! I will use this blog to let all of you know what's going on while I'm there. Pray about this with me, God is good!

Adoption news: We have heard that they are probably not giving out any other referrals for the rest of this year. But the committee should be meeting this Thursday since it's the last Thurs. of the month-Oct. has flown by! Hopefully we will hear some news soon as to if they are for sure not giving out any other referrals, but we hope that's not the case. I'll post something when I know.

Still Waiting

This morning I found out that the meeting the AAC had on Oct. 4, they did not assign any referrals. So they will meet again next Thursday! Keep praying!

Update

I received an e-mail from our social worker today telling us that the AAC will not meet until next week on Thursday, October 4th. That will be around 2-3 am our time early on Thursday morning. Please pray for the committee, that they will find favor with us and match us with our child. I talked with the lady who is at the head of the Albanian adoptions for our agency and she said we are one of the top families on the list, but we are young. I know my God is bigger than this bump in the road with our age! We really appreciate all of your prayers and we give God all of the glory with our adoption and our lives, He is great, isn't He?!?!

Okay, I think I am finally figuring the blog thing out (thanks Cydil!), I deleted the old pics of Hudson's room. Here are some updated ones. The only thing left is to hang the letters of his name and the stars above his bed.

Remember to pray that the committee matches us with our child in their meeting at the end of this month. Pray that we will hear about our son the first week of October. God is good! Thanks so much!

Prayer Request

Please pray that the committee matches us with our child at the end of this month. They should be meeting in a few weeks, the last week of September. THANKS FOR YOUR PRAYERS!

We have been working on Hudson's room, it should be close to being finished in a few weeks. Jason has to put together a dresser and then we have to hang pics and decorate! We got his crib a few weeks ago, it's a 3 in 1 so if he is in a toddler bed this will work, too. The backpack my mom got him, I love it! You know I love to read, so I have already started buying books, I cannot wait to read to him. And of course he has to have some carhart and john deere to match his Daddy! I will put some more pics up as we get things closer to being finished.

Hopefully we will receive our referral in October, pray about it!!

Hello, I haven't posted on the blog in a long time. I was thinking about making a new blog through yahoo b/c my mom and Jason's mom cannot view this blog through their work (they work in the school system and for some reason it blocks it). I'm not sure if I will change it or not since they can pull the blog up at home. Anyways, we were approved by the AAC in March and they told us we could get our referral as soon as August or September but it could be later. I need to take pics of his room. I have painted, we have his bedding, and pics to hang, I am definitely in nesting mode! We are pretty sure on the name Hudson Luke Carney. Jason says that we will for sure decide when we see him!!

Mailed off to Albania

We just got a phone call saying all paperwork looked good in Michigan and tomorrow they will be mailing it off to Albania!! Hopefully it will be translated soon!!

Paperwork Complete!!

Our paperwork is turned in and has been sent off to be reviewed to make sure all is correct. Our caseworker said everything looks good, so we will wait to hear when it is translated!! WOOOHOOO!!