More things to check off!!

     So Last week I did my physical and Jordan did his Live scan!We also finished our 10 hours of parenting training. Friday I picked up both of our test results for our physicals and Saturday was our second home visit with our social worker Joe! This coming week should be just as productive I hope!! We are supposed to get our first of two mailer packets for our Dossier. I have all the certificates needed for this so I am hoping that this will go fast just like our home study! We still have to have our Last visit for our home study and then have them approve us. I know God is in control and I know this is what the Lord has for our family. I also know many things can arise and is not always so easy so I keep praying for God to go before us and our family through this whole process. I cant wait to see what child God has created for our family!! So much to do still and so excited do do all the paper work as wired as that sounds ,but I know each paper I fill out and each thing I do it brings me closer to our baby!! If that's the part I play in bringing our child home then I am all for it!!!   Love Like Jesus!!!

So much to do!!

     So in the past week since we began I feel like I have accomplished allot but still have so far to go. Yesterday I did my Live Scan which was interesting cause even though I have never been in trouble with the law it was intimidating just being in there. Good thing I don't show stress very obviously cause then they might think I really had something to hide. The poor girl who helped me and did my Live Scan was all by herself and she was overwhelmed. Then the Live Scan Machine was going very slow and stressed her out even more. Well I am just glad I got it done and it gets me closer to the child God has for us!! I did  6 out of 10 parenting hours this morning and ordered 2 copies of my birth certificate!! Jordan got his Medical Exam done today so those are 3 more things I get to check off my never ending lists of things!! We haven't even started our Dossier paper work so I know I have a long road ahead of me! I know God will use every step to bring us closer to our baby ,but ultimately bring us closer to Him!! I love what God is doing in our family and in my own life and all the different things he is teaching me and healing me along the way! Looking forward and not Backward!!   Hope you all have a blessed Day!! :)

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We have talked about adoption for 8 years

 Ok well I guess I better tell you a little about our begining story with adoption. We have talked about adopting since we were dating (It was a pretty important thing to me that who ever I married had to want to adopt just like me. So I was very excited that Jordan was not oppossed to the idea just never thought of doing it himself. He always thought it was pretty cool of our friends who adopted from Ukraine and others that he knew of. So I prayed everyday that God would put it on Jordan's heart to want to as much as I did and that we would be on the same page if we were going to get married. At that time we were just dating. I didn't want to push him into anything cause I knew that would cause more harm than good. So I prayed everyday  quitely. Randomly one day he brought it up to me and told me that it was on his heart to adopt just as we were adopted by Christ. I was beyond thrilled I knew before I had such a wonderful man but then after hereing him talk about adoption that just did me in I was deffinately hooked!!

   So the years went on and as soon as we got married I started doing my homework on adoption , different agencies, and requirements. I knew it would take a while to finally get our child so I wanted to get a jump start! It wasn't till after we had been married a year and we wanted to start having children. We talked back and forth on whether to adopt first or have our own Biological children first. I really wanted to adopt and I wanted to adopt TWINS!! I always thought having twins was so cool I just never wanted to be pregnant with twins! Well I think God has a very funny sense of humor cause long behold we decided to have our Bio children first and there we had it I got pregnant with our TWINS! It was definately not your typical pregnancy by any means. After spending 2 months in the Hospital on my back not able to even sit up to eat for 8 weeks I had my sweet little babies at 34 weeks pregnant. they were perfect little things and did very well and where only in the hospital for 10 and 11 days. So by the time they were 6 months I started looking again into adoption and it got pushed further and further away to finally this year!!

   I cant believe that we are finally doing this after so much prayer and fasting and more prayer and seeking the Lord for His timing we pulled the trigger and are embarking on this crazy rollercoaster of a ride  ( paper Chase). I know most people would want a house first and everything perfect before they do something like adding another child to their family ,but God doesnt say you need a house and a room for each kid and a mortgage and a giant car and all these other things that are just materialistic. I know there are times where we do need those things and hopefully are working towards in the future but our main thing is we want to follow what God has for us. We want to make sure we do what we are called to do and not  to be held back in fear of the unknown.  God called all of us to take care of the Orphans and to our family that means adopting one!! I am going to do lots of reaserch on the DR CONGO and will be posting alot more as I get used to doing a blog. Please bear with me as I learn this blog stuff and adoption stuff. Thanks again for following our journey and praying for us!!

Time-Line to bringing our baby home!!!

So I want to show you our time-line as well as I can



February 3rd-Decided we will start the adoption process!!!

February 3rd-Decided on Angels Haven for our Home Study Agency! And

February6th -Sent Angels Haven Application and paper work  in and payment through PayPal

February 7th-Decided on CAN for our Adoption Agency

February 8th-Sent in Application/paperwork for CAN

February 9th-Got APPROVED BY CAN and Payed first payment

February 15th -I get my Live scan done

February 16th Jordan get Live scan done and his Physical

February 18th - Our 1st Home study visit with Joe!

February 21st- get my Physical

February 24th-Got Jordans and my physical reports back!!

February 25th-2nd Home study visit -My Interview with Joe

February 28th- Mailing our last paper work for our Home Study and for my new passport

February   - Recieving our first Mailer packet for our Dossier

February 3rd- 3rd and Final home study visit and Jordans interview and our joint interview

March 17th- Got our Homestudy rough draft!

March 28th- Got our Finalized Home study report!!

March 29th- Sent our USCIS form in!! ( My nephew Justus  14th Birthday)

April 1st- Getting all the Dossier Documents Notarized!!

April 4th- Sent our Dossier to CAN

April 5th- CAN recieved our Dossier

April 6th Sent our 3rd Payment to CAN

April 11th- CAN sent our Dossier to be authentisicated

April 23rd- USCIS Finger Prints

April 30th- Dossier came back to CAN

May 4th- Dossier sent to DR Congo!

May 4th- NUMBER 15 on the wait list for a referral!!

May 10th- Dossier arrived in DRC!

May 30th- Number 11!!!!!!!!

Our Family of 4 before we become a family of 5!!

                                               Jordan and I at his work Christmas lunch!

                                               Makai and Kalia at the park by our house!!

                                                           My sweet handsome Prince Makai

                                                       The Beautiful Princess Kalia!!

I will not leave you as Orphans; I will come to you!

John 14:18 I will not leave you as Ophans;I will come to you"! This verse means so much to all of us as Christians. Before in John 13 Jesus called his disciples "Little children". He was talking to them as a Father figure and explaining to them He would be departing. He used the term 'little children' as a term of endearment and love. He would be beaten, crucified and put into a tomb. He would also be rising again!!!!!!After the resurrection Jesus will ascend into Heavan and go back up to his Heavenly father. He would leave them the Holy Spirit as a helper for them until he comes back for us. In John 14:18 He is telling them he will not leave them fatherless he will be back for them. To me this verse shows me how God loved me so much he was not only willing to come to this earth in a human form but also willing to be persecuted ,beaten, and crucified. Not only that, He came down knowing in advance all that he would endure and knowing that he would be seperated from his Father. He did that for each one of us! He not only did that -- He wanted to make sure we werent abandoned until he comes back again for us, so he sent the Holy Spirit to be in us and with us. He is still here even when he is in heavan that is how BIG our God is! He then makes sure we know he will be back for us!!!

From the bottom of my heart, since I was 6,  I felt God calling me to be the mother to an orphan in Africa. I have prayed for the child God has for me and truely believe God created me with this purpose in mind. My mom always told me to pray for the man God had for me and for the children God had for me as well. I prayed years for my husband and never imagined God had such a wonderful perfect man for me as he has shown me through Jordan! My children... I am over abundantly blessed by them - I am so lucky to be able to stay at home with them every single day and play with them and teach them and just see in them how much God loves me and more. And now with adopting I have prayed for 6 years for God to prepare my heart, my husband;s heart my families heart, now my children's hearts for the Child he has for us. And I pray God prepares the child's heart he has for us!! So exciting and so scary and nerve racking all at the same time. I am a very impatient person when it comes to things like this so I know God is going to work on me in that area as well as many more I dont even know exist. I am excited to see the work God is doing in our families and in our church as well as our own lives and family. I pray and hope to become the mother God has created me to be and to really seek him and always keep him my first priority!! I know I am prone to get obsessed with these kinds of things, so I want to make sure He is my number one!!!

Our Families New Addition

Our Family is excited to announce, we are by faith, adopting a child from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
We will be sharing the exciting process with you on this blog and providing creative ways to help us bring our new child home.
Stay tuned here for frequent postings and updates.
With Faith and Love through Christ,
Jordan, Jamie, Makai, and Kalia