USCIS Finger prints Check!! DMV Check!

So last Monday Jordan and I went to the USCIS office in downtown Santa Ana and did our finger prints! So when we get there we have to show ID and the DMV messed up on my last name so they almost didnt let me do the finger printing. Luckily I keep my old License with me incase of this problem. The lady finaly excepted my ID and off I went to get my finger prints and another step closer to my baby!! So after that ordeal I realized I needed to get my License fixed ASAP so it doesnt set us back at all with our timeline. So I got an appointment for that Thursday and went to the DMV with both my kids!! Yes fun times!! They actually did very good until the very end!! I had Kalia on my IPhone and Makai had the IPAD !! It was awesome they listend and followed me and sat and played the whole time! Well until Kalia handed me my phone right before they made me take my photo again and right when I took my photo I see at the cornor of my eye Kalia ontop of Makai trying to take the IPAD away. They were in a Tug of War and the IPAD was the rope LOL!!! I quickly pulled them appart and confinscated the IPAD and thats when the real Water works and tantrum came from the both of them. Makai stomping his feet Kalia crying for her "MY PAD" and me putting the IPAD in my purse and taking the both by the hand in humiliation and focused on the door out of there!! We were quite the intertanement for the people in line!! Well I made sure all the people in the DMV herd me say " This is why you never get to play with the IPAD" "You act like this and you wont get it back ever" > You know you want everyone to know you have contrl over your kids and that you dicipline bad behavore. Even though it was pretty obvious I  was in over my head LOL. But we got to the car and things settled down!!

 Last week and for a few weeks now we have been so busy! Mainly me taking the kids out during the week to do fun things!! This week will be no different!! Today is cleaning day wich I like and more of a relaxing day!! I know your thinking how is cleaning relaxing?? Well thats the wierd thing it relaxes me!! Well once I am finished I am relaxed!! I love a clean house and order to things!! It makes me feel so much better and ready to do things. Tuesday is our swim lessons and donuts day!!! Wenesday is SEA WORLD!!! So excited for this one!!! We try to take them every year but this is the age they really start to remember things! We are going with my family and all there cousins so they will have lots of fun! Thursday we are going swimming at my in -laws to swim with tthere cousins !! Thursday night we and Friday night we have our ADOPTION SUMMIT we are soooo excited about !!! Francis Chan and Steven Curtis Chapman will be Speeking!!  This weekend we got Birthday Parties!!! I am tierd just thinking about it but I know it will all be lots of fun and good memories for us with the kids!! But I hope we hear soon that our Dossier will be ready to be sent to the Congo!!! And Praying for our USCIS letter of Approval to come this week in the mail!!

Dossier sent!!

• OK it feels like it has been months and months but really it hasn't been even 2 months since we started the adoption process and we got our Dossier out Finally!!Tuesday night Jordan mailed our Dossier to our agency and it arrived Thursday!! We payed our Dossier fee Friday morning an hopefully by Monday it will go out to be certified by the State and government. This can take 3-4 weeks before it is ready to be sent to the DR Congo. I have prayed for years about adopting and always prayed for Gods timing on starting the process and for a quick process! I have done my part with paper work and now it is out of my hands and in the hands of our agency ,government and DRC government. But I rest in knowing it is ultimately in GODS hands and that's the best place to leave it!! I knew God wanted to teach me things during this time and this whole process. I guess I don't do well at patients cause I feel I need to ask for it all the time and God tends to teach me about it often. I wish I would just get it already cause I am in patient learning it LOL!  But I know God loves me, and always has the best for me and my family in mind! I am just glad to be done with the Dossier and knowing I am just a little closer to our baby!!!