Homestudy complete!

Yesterday was the long awaited homestudy.  This was the last thing we had to do in our long checklist from the agency.  A social worker came to our house for about two hours.  She interviewed both of us together, then each individually and then we went on a tour of the house.  Linus (our dog) was a bit too excited to see someone new and jumped all over her while she was sitting on the couch.  Lucky for us, she's a dog person.

She still has to write up the homestudy which will take a few weeks.  After that we are officially "on the list".  Right now it looks like our wait time is going to be around two years.  It's a long time yes, but we need that time to be able to save enough money.

We have some exciting ideas for some fundraisers, the first one being our yard sale in May.  We have been collecting donations.  If you have anything from spring cleaning we will gladly take it and add to our yard sale collection!  We were able to take advantage of a great sale on Amazon and we have a brand new Kindle Fire that we will be raffling at some point.  Also in the works are plans for a spaghetti dinner and a silent auction so if you know of anyone who is creative or has a skill they would like to donate, please send them our way!

We appreciate all of the support everyone has shown us so far and are thankful for every one of you!

Fingerprints

We had to take a trip to the police station this morning.  No, we're not criminals, we just had to get our fingerprints done as part of this long process.

$20 and 15 minutes later we can check one small thing off of our list!  Of course I took pictures.