USCIS SENT!!!

 Ok well a couple new things have happend!! We have been getting all the papers lined up for our Dossier to be finished and waiting for our Notary to get back from vacation since Jordan for got to tell me she was leaving I couldn't get to her before she left. But God knew the timing and I actually needed this extra week for a couple things I didnt expect to happen.  Last night we went to my parents for dinner and talking with our friend Yanha found out that she is a Notary and told me she would do it after church on Sunday!! So we get to send our Dossier out Monday morrning!!! Yesterday we got to send out our USCIS form so that willl be getting processed and when that is done (hopefully soon!!) we can have everything finalized and put together and get everything out to the DRC this month and get on the waiting list already!! I know realisticly its only been less than two months to have got everything done already but thats how I do things I dont like alot of down time I like to get focused and get it all finished and be done with it.
 God has also done some awesome things in our youth group as well and its so exciting to see the kids get to know eachother and all of us leaders and see them grow! We are taking them all to the Worship Concert tonight at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa to hear Phil Whickam play! Praying the holy Spirit moves in each of there hearts and that we are all blessed by it!
 Jordans been working really hard and the Lord has been blessing him for it so we are very thankful for that as well!!

 We are getting closer and closer to getting our baby and just so excited for it!!

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My passport Came last Thursday!! Saturday we recieved our rough draft Home study Report!! And we are just waiting for our Agency to review it and approve it so it can get finalized!! Then we can send our USCIS Form off in the mail and that just means we are a few steps closer to our baby!! I have never minded filling out papers or filing or organizing things, but knowing every paper I fill out or send or review just gets me more excited about this amazing thing God is doing in our Family and in each of our hearts! Jordan told me Sunday night that he can now invision our little baby with our family. We have talked about this countless times ouver the past 8 years but I see God really ignighting the fire in his heart!! I love watchuing God work in the hearts of people regarding everything but especiallty regarding adoption!! To me its first nature to me but its not like that with everyone and thats fine I know God calls us to all do different things but he DOES call us ALL to Protect and take care of WIDOWS AND ORPHANS!  KNowing God is knowing his heart and loving the way HE LOVES!! My favorite saying is to have "FAITH LIKE A CHILD AND TO LOVE LIKE JESUS!!" This has stuck with me for I dont even know how many years. But I always wanted to build a ministry for Orphans using this! My ministry is adopting a baby from DR CONGO! Its helping raise money for otheres like my husband and I who want to adopt but dont have all the funds to do it. I hope I can do something that will make a differance the way I want to make a differance.  Next on the to do list is Finalizing our Home study and getting our USCIS sent out!!!

Home Study check---
 Ok well I haven't had a chance to update at all and I wish it was more exciting news but, we had our last appointment with our social worker and should be getting our home study rough draft any day now. We got our first mailer out Yeah!! And I hope in the next week we will be getting our second mailer out!!  I know God is always teaching me patience amongst other things but it seems like it gets harder for me not easier. God keeps showing me He is in control and that He is faithful!! I know this cause I have seen it many times before in my life. I am a little frustrated cause I realized that my passport was in my maiden name( For our Honeymoon) and that I needed to get a new one ASAP before I could finish most of our paper work for our Dossier. We have everything pretty much finished and are waiting for my passport to come so I have the info I need to finish filling out the papers. I also found out the person we were planning on using for our Notary is not renewing there license in June and I think who ever we use needs to have a license that wont expire for at least a year. So we thought we would be saving money on having a close friend do it but looks like we wont be. But I know God knew that ahead of time and He has it all planned out even if I cant see it.Faith comes in every part of an adoption!

 We started the Dossier and I was hoping to be finished as soon as our home study was but it just never works out that way. I know its ridiculous to be so inpatient especially because its only been a month since we started but I have been waiting my whole life for this child God has for me! I have know since I was 5years I wanted to adopt and talked about it with my husband since we started dating 8 years ago. So it feels like its taking forever even when its officially only been 1 month. I cant imagine in 6 months how I am going to feel? And how I feel so incomplete with out this child already. I don't know if my child is born or if our baby is conceived yet but I love our baby no matter what. I keep thinking, is it a boy or a girl ? IS MY CHILD SAFE? I just want our baby to know there is a family waiting for him or her and cant wait to meet them and hold them. What I do know is I serve a God who loves me and who loves every Orphan! He knows my baby and how many hairs he/she has on its head. He knows I have longed for this for some time and that I have always felt I was created to be a mommy and to adopt from Africa. My GOD CARES and these children DO MATTER!! I serve a loving, gentle, fearless, strong, compassionate, God. He purposed in my heart long ago to take care of the Orphans and all my life my heart broken for these kids that are abandoned and parentless. I am so blessed I get to be apart of Gods calling to take care of an Orphan and show Christ love. I want to do more than just pray for them i want my life to count in all I do and put my actions where my mouth is.

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!!