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Just Keep Swimming...

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!

Looking back at how far we've come in such a short amount of time, we are overwhelmed with such joy and happiness at how the Lord has already orchestrated this beautiful story! Since beginning this process, Kevin and I both believe with all our hearts that the Lord knows who the birth mother is that will choose us, and he knows who the child is that we will adopt. We have fervently been praying for both birth mom, and baby. God has a plan far greater than what we could ever imagine, and it's such a blessing to watch this story unfold.

In other news...

We do have adoption t-shirts for sale, we have sizes S-XL, they are $21.00 each. If you are interested in purchasing a shirt to help fund our adoption, please let us know. If we sell out of the stock we currently have, we can reopen the campaign online!

In just a little over a week, the benefit sing and Chili Dinner evening will be here! It's scheduled for Saturday, November 12th; Chili Dinner from 5-6:15pm, singing from 6:30-8:15pm. Pastor Randy Nichols & family, Jordan Ernst and Homebound will be the guest singers! We hope to see you there!

Please continue to keep us in your prayers. While we have made progress, we are sure that we've got quite a ways to go! No one knows long this entire process might take before we are matched with a family, it could be very quick, or it could take some time. Either way, we are so ready and so excited for everything to come together!

We appreciate each one of you who has followed our story, encouraged us, prayed for us, and just been there. We are so thankful for you, and we love you!

Love,

Kevin & Amber


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