First Homestudy!

We had our first homestudy meeting today! It was pretty painless, it was our first meeting with both Kevin and I. Our next meeting will be in a couple of weeks, it will be half with both of us and then I will do my individual meeting and she will do our home saftey inspection. Our social worker was very sweet and not intimidating at all. We did get a little discouraging news, it seems that here in good ole' Colorado things seem to move rather slow. Our social worker thinks that between waiting for background checks and our I-171 that we probably won't be able to send our dossier to Ethiopia until Octoberish. That seems like forever. I am hoping that this is an over estimation but I am going to tell myself October and if it gets there earlier then I will just be happy. So for now I will just prepare for our home inspection. I have bought two fire extinguishers, I have a fire escape ladder on order, I think my cleaning supplies are already in safe places (thanks to Oliver), and I think that may be it, please let me know if you know of other things that I need to do to make sure our home is a safe place for children. I am guessing that since both of my children are safe that hopefully that means it is in fact a safe place. Oh and yes we purchased a First-Aid kit that I am sure will come in handy with my accident prone boys. So it really feels like things are moving along although I know I am in for a very long wait soon so it feels good to get the things done that I have some control over.

Thank you so much to sweet Heidi and Jack for watching the boys today. Kaden woke up from his nap and cried when his "friend Jack" wasn't there to play. Thanks again I REALLY appreciate it.

I also wanted to say Happy 30th Birthday to Peesharoni!!!! I have known Licia since the second grade and I cannot believe that we are alreay 30. That means that we have been friends for something like 23 years. That is crazy! I hope that you have a wonderful birthday and a very blessed 30th year. Love you!!!

Happy (late) Valentines Day

Our Formal Application was approved!!!! Yeah!!! Homestudy here we come! I am so excited, it is hard for me to believe this is actually happening. I just keep waiting for something to happen that is going to prevent us from adopting, from meeting our precious babe that I think and dream about often, so every accomplishment is really exciting for me. I know it is just the application, but that seems like a huge step forward.

Anyways, we had a nice Valentines Day. It was pretty low key, we have decided that going out and waiting hours for a table at a restaraunt is not our idea of a nice night out so we stayed in. I think that until we can think ahead enough to make reservations some where this will be our tradition. Here are some pictures from our day.Kaden is playing with the Play-Doh that he bought with his Valentines Day money that he got from grandma. Thank you grandma!Here are my sweet boys snuggling up and watching some Veggie Tales. They are so cute, I love it!

Here is Oliver enjoying our Valentines cake. He loves to feed himself and he is obviously not that good at it yet, but you gotta give him credit for trying.

These are the beautiful flowers that my sweet hubbie gave me last night. They are so pretty and they smell amazing.

Beautiful

I found this video today on my new blog buddy Kelli's blog. It is really beautiful.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OSdP6PqsbJY

We officially turned in our Formal Application on Monday morning!!!!!! I will keep you updated as we hear more about that. Hopefully we will be able to start our homestudy soon.

Lets Limbo!

Yeah, our physicals are finally done. The doctors office called yesterday to say that our drug screens were back and that I was busted! Apparently I tested positive for caffeine, so my little addiction has been brought into the light. It's true I admit it I love coffee, it feels really good to say that. Anyways, that means we should be able to turn our Formal Application in on Monday morning! Yeah!

On another note, today we went to a birthday party at Skate City and Kaden got to skate for the first time. He was so cute, he was a little nervous at first but once he got used to the idea of it he had fun. He wasn't able to let go of his Papa's hand but it was very exciting all the same. I will leave you with some pictures of our little skatin' man.

Tag ...I'm It

I have been tagged and I can't say that I love doing these but because it is Amy and I love her I will do it.

8 Things I am Passionate About
1. Jesus
2. My husband
3. My kiddos
4. Adoption/Ethiopia
5. My family
6. My friends
7. Trying to be the person God wants me to be
8. Our world and taking care of it and the people that live on it

8 Things I Want To Do Before I Die
1. Adopt
2. Watch my children fall in love with Jesus
3. Travel to Ireland and lots of other amazing places
4. Meet Bono!
5. Go to NYC around Christmas time
6. Live in another country

8 Things I Say Often
1. Kevin!
2. I love my boys!
3. Oh Brother
4. For the love of Pete (whoever that is)
5. no-no don't touch
6. Eat your food
7. Honestly
8. Aww crap

8 T.V. Show I Recently Watched
1. Oprah
2. Today Show
3. The Office (reruns..urgh!)
4. Go Diego
5. Desperate Housewives (don't judge)
6. Mythbusters
7. CSI (more reruns)
8. Arrested Development

8 Artists I Never Tire Of Listening To
1. My very talented husband
2. U2
3. Matt Kearney
4. Waterdeep
5. Billy Joel
6. Coldplay
7. Dave Matthews
8. Lifehouse

8 Things That Attract Me To Friends
1. Loving
2. Real/Honest
3. Inspiring
4. Fun/Funny
5. Loyal
6. Down-to-earth

8 Things I Learned in 2007
1. That our next child will be Ethiopian
2. That my parents really won't be around forever
3. That I love adoption
4. That there is a whole blogging world out there that I was oblivious to
5. That my husband is really good at what he does
6. More about the person God wants me to be
7. That having two boys is such a blessing and an insane amount of work

Since I am very new to the blogging world I don't know many people to tag I will tag Brittlee and Heidi (if you are still blogging, and if you are still blogging I need your address because it has been forever). I also tag anyone who happens to read this and is just dying to be tagged.