I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year.
I am so happy to be in 2011, I know big things are happening ;)
So, we finally started the Home Study, I thought it would take forever to get all the paperwork completed and it seemed we would never get to this point!
Our social worker came on Sunday for the first of two visits.
She is a really sweet lady with 34 years of experience and I know God was working there. She had great information and she will also be our social worker after we bring Miss Catie home for our 6month and 1 year follow up reports. She will make visit two on Friday and then write the report to complete the Home Study. After that, we submit the report to CIS and wait 3-4 months for their approval. During that 3-4months I will be hopefully completing the dossier for China. I feel like the Home Study is the fist big mountain and I am so happy to finally be trekking up it.
And yes, I must admit that I already kinda started on the Dossier too ;)
Things are moving right along and rather easily which still amazes me. God is so good.
Lots of things have been going on at our house too:
We went on our yearly Disney trip with Alan's mom and dad in early December. This year was so much fun, I love that our kids have those memories with Grandma and Grandpa! The boys made several comments about how our next Disney trip might involve girl stuff...I think they are secretly really excited about meeting the Princesses.
The boys also went with Alan and my Dad to "The Deer Lease", Caden is WAY into hunting and my Dad set him up with some new gear for Christmas. He is already asking when he can go again. Caleb is right on his heels starting to talk about deer and tracking stuff in the woods, these conversations are hilarious!
We celebrated New Years low key at the Lake house with our friends The Warrenders. The boys played outside, got some golf in, we set off fireworks (which were interesting ;)) and did some fishing. Caden caught a nice 3lb bass right off the pier, that was one excited kid.
So it has been pretty busy for us and I was actually happy to be over the Holidays, back at work and school and on our regular routine!
Thank you all again for your continued support and prayers!
The support of our Family and Friends is so important to us, you guys keep us going!
Many Blessings
Jenn
