Please Pray

Hey,

We have a few things to request prayer for:

I heard from the woman we have been in contact with at the babies home today. She has malaria. I am not sure of the availibility of a hopital or medication. So please pray for her. Her name is Remmie.

We also e-mailed the requested information about us today. Please pray that they will want to work with us. Pray that this is the path God has planned for us!

We are trying to gear up the fundraising efforts again. So please pray that we will have a good response to and great ideas come up!


On a last note we have opened the blog up to comments again. They will just need to be approved by us. We love to hear what you think about what is going on. We were just afraid after what happened with the last blog. So this will fix both problems.

-Kristin

update

Hey!
We have a small amount of progress to report. I got an answer to the e-mail I sent to the lawyer. He sent us a list of required documents. We are really getting into the paperwork phase of international adoption. There are about 7 different documents required (marriage certif, passport, home study...) Here is the paperwork part! We need six notarized copies of each, and in the case of the passports and other documents that are for each of us we need 12 notarized copies of each! We also have to include a $2000.00 deposit.

So please pray for God to provide us with the money to proceed with this next step.
We would also appreciate any fundraiser ideas. We need to get things moving again.

We also heard from the babies home. They want to hear more about us.. .our marriage, our walk as Christians, why we want to adopt, our plan for our adopted child...
It is kind of hard to write all these things about yourself. Just to articulate all those things. So pray for the wisdom to answer these questions in a way that conveys our hearts.

Also I was unable to continue working at Texas Roadhouse. The way it is required to carry the trays due to the high volumes of customers is primarily with one hand. The first time I tried this I sprained my wrist. They were kind enough to offer to work with me and find another way. I tried it and by the end of the night my wrist was really hurting again. That night I was only carrying drinks and salads. I am not someone who can stand by and let others do my work for me. So that was not an option for me.
Unfortunately, I am now in need of a job ASAP. Of course this is not an easy task due to the unemployment rate. So please pray for an opportunity.
All that said we hope and pray this is a turn for the good in this process. And God willing we will be proceeding very, very soon.

-Kristin

Hey everyone,

I hope everyone had a great Valentines Day!

We have located a babies home in Uganda that we are really hoping to work with! It is a small babies home. They have a photo gallery on their website. Other than the obvious pictures of the beautiful babies! There was so much amazing things to my critical (child care providers eyes). The babies were dressed in well kept clothing. The home looked very clean and well furnished. Now here comes my two favorite parts. The children had toys! This is so great to me because they were developmental toys. That is so essential in growth and development. Anyone who knows me well knows I am a huge supporter of educational toys. I am the one most kids don't get excited about recieving gifts from:-) However the best part is the love you can see pouring out of the workers in the home. The best and completely essential part to growth, devlopment, and long term health!!

We would be so blessed to be able to work with a home such as this one.

I sent an email to then expressing our interest. I also sent an email to the lawyer we are hoping to use. Just waiting to hear from them. Hmmm waiting seems like that word comes up a lot in adoption!

We are asking for prayer that this home will choose to work with us. And the lawyer as well. Once we are decided on lawyer we can start immigration proceedings.

Hopefully updates will be soon!

-Kristin

Thanks!

We just wanted to let everyone know how THANKFUL we are for all of the support and love we have recieved throughout this entire process. Not that is by any means finished...

First and foremost THANK YOU to God. Without him presenting this opportunity to us we would not be even close to staring the paperwork. THANK YOU to God for showing his love and guidance in many many step by step answers to prayer! THANK YOU to God that we always know that he is there with us. If not for that I am pretty sure I would be hiding under the bed by now trying to escape everything! Some people say they would hide under a rock, however I am NOT a nature girl so I prefer the bed with a good book and some chocolate;-). Can you just imagine me in Uganda? I CAN!! Also for allowing to get through the loss of the girls to another family by providing us with the comfort that they will no longer be hungry when they finally come home. Also for allowing us to see one of his purposes for the loss of the girls. The opportunity to share with non-believers the fact that we can be ok with what happened because we know that God has a different plan for us and the girls! So our greatest THANKS to God for everything!!

The most important support is prayers. I guarantee that God has been getting bombarded with prayers. I am filled with joy at how happy he must be by that! For all of you who take the time to include us in your prayers THANK YOU!!

We could never forget to say THANK YOU to all the people who have provided financial support. We are so grateful for every single penny that people have donated to help us bring our child/children home. I know some people (at one point I was one of them) feel that if all they have to give is $10.00 that it would be better not to bother. That is so untrue. We are appreciative and touched by any financial donation. The amount is not what counts. It is the love that comes with sharing some of your resources to help not only us but some special child/children. So to all of you who have helped us this far and will help us in the future. THANK YOU FOR EVERY PENNY!!

To the people who have provided so much of thier time in helping us get started. In holding our hands and helping us take baby steps not to mention any names(you know who you are Jena and Keith:-). I can't imagine where we would be at this point without you! THANK YOU!!

To all the people who have provided emotional support through the good times in this crazy roller coaster if international adoption! And also through the hard times. People who have jumped for joy at the good times, and cried along with us at the hard ones. THANK YOU!!

There are many more thanks to come. We are by no means even close to finished, just waiting for the next chapter.

THANK YOU!

Hey,

Not much new going on here. I am usually doing my posting on my phone and I have access to a computer right now so I thougt I would take advantage of the opportunity.

Here is one thing that would be helpful if your are telling your friends and family about our blog and they are interested in following it... A very close friend of mine purchased a domain for us so the address is much easier to remember and type. You will automatically directly to our blog page!

The link is:

www.ouradoptionstory.net

Cool right? A special thanks to Kevin for setting this up for us!

Bet you thought we forgot about the blog!

Hey Everyone,

I am so sorry it has taken me so long to post anything. I hope you will be patient with us and keep following our blog.

I just started a new job this week. I am a server at Texas Roadhouse. To those of you who are familiar with the resteraunt yep I do have to line dance! Anyway traing has been kind of crazy. I start really working next week.

Not a whole lot new on the adoption front. We are looking into a few new avenues to go with (still in Uganda of course). We are hoping to have enough info very soon to be able to decide on whether we can go with the lawyer we really want to.

We are asking for prayer that God will pave the way and show us the path he has planned for us! It is getting very hard waiting. We were spoiled initially already having a referral so the waiting was not that bad.