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Hi, friends! Since we last shared on the blog, we had our fourth and final home study! It's so hard to believe that we have been through four home studies, in such a short amount of time! The adoption agency is now entering everything into their system, and we wait to hear that we are home study approved!  Saturday was the Chili Dinner and Benefit Sing, which was a great success! Donations given at the Chili Dinner totalled $302.00, and the love offering taken totalled $1095.00! A grand total of $1397.00 was donated that night, to help fund our adoption!  Thank you to each and everyone who came out that evening, and a special thank you to the guest singers, Jordan Ernst from Plum, PA, Homebound, and the Cole Family. We'd like to thank my sister, Amanda Inman, my mom, Teresa Carter and grandma, Paulette Cole for all their hard work organizing this event. We had a great service, and it was great to be surround by friends and family! We appreciate the love and support shown t...

Progress has been made since we last posted! We attended the required four hour adoption class, we thoroughly enjoyed getting to be a part of that, we were able to learn quite a bit! This past Tuesday, we had our third home study; which went great, and our final home study will take place next week! Very soon after, within a week or two, we should know if we are home study approved! Once home study approved, we will move forth with creating our family profile, and once that is ready, birth families who are looking to place their child in the home of a prospective adoptive family, will view family profiles, and the birth family will choose who they want to parent their child. Our Adoption Agency is a smaller adoption agency, who has been operating for about 2 years now; they like to keep the number of prospective adoptive families under ten - they currently have seven to eight families looking to adopt, and are working with five birth mothers. To us, those are great numbers! Looki...