A Picture Is Worth A Bunch Of Texts

We have finally mailed in every piece of paper needed to complete our home study! Whew. It is so nice to know that we only have a couple of more things to finish before this leg of our journey is over.

As you can imagine we are knee-deep in our photo book, creating ideas, choosing what text is most important, searching for pictures, and making plans to take some new ones. I've spent the week harassing friends and family for pictures and we have a ton to sift through. But we can always use more, so let us know if you have any pics that would fit into the following:

-Could be of us together or individual
-Can't be more than 5 years old (no naked baby pictures, moms)
-We should be smiling and happy
-If there are kids in the picture than even better
- Happy family photos (yes, your face will be in our book)
-Pictures of us serving or working
-Pictures of us being us, something that shows our personalities

If you have any of these please email them to me as soon as you can! Thanks!

Home Study #2

Last night we met with our adoption specialist and did our individual interviews. It was pretty painless and our meeting was over before we knew it. We've got one more to go next week and it will just be a wrap up.

We're working hard on getting pictures together for our photo book, so if you've got any good ones of us that show our personality please send them our way.  I'm so excited to see what Derek can create and so nervous that this photo book give a true story of who we are and a life we would provide for a little one. I know it's going to be great in the end!

In the mean time, we're sending out the rest of our announcement letters, child proofing (I can't stand those wall outlet covers!), painting the nursery furniture, and reading parenting books.

Please join us in praying that the letters that are being mailed out would fall on open hearts, our photo book would portray us honestly and creatively, and for our little one and their birth family.

DONATIONS AHOY!

Well hello there. Derek Smith here, your local wisecrackin soon to be daddy.

I'm here to let you know we paid a team of kitties, to code a highly complicated gadget for us to use on the blog. If you turn your attention to the left side of the page... now back here please. Thank you. As you saw we now have a PayPal DONATE button. It's very shiny and yellow, and if you stare at it long enough it becomes very tempting to push. Please stare at it for as long as you like. Because we need you to push it. We need your donations. 

We now have to start a separate blog and donation fund just to pay the kitties, who coded our donation button. We will be accepting crateloads of catnip and milk if you can spare it.

Please feel free to donate any amount to us at your convenience. You may even just pay us a dollar if you're feeling like a wiseguy.

I have nothing else of importance to say other than - please think of the kitties.

 meow.