Adoption Update

OK, So we got a message from our social worker today. Thanks goodness!!! She doesn't need the foster finger prints to send our info in the the adoption agency. So we should still be on track. We should get a call from them in the next couple of weeks to schedule our home study. Yay!

Pictures of the new digs! It's still a mess though!

Family Room

Living Room

Dingin Room

Kitchen and Eating Area

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

I have discovered I have NO patience left... My social worker called yesterday, and the last time they did our live scan, they did the wrong one AGAIN!!!! We went in for the first time at the end of June, then they didn't do the foster set. So we called to schedule a new appt and they wanted to schedule it out two weeks! Well, Cam talked them into a date a week sooner. So, like I said, they called again to say that they did the wrong set again. This time they wouldn't budge on the date two weeks out!!! Argh!!! I was so hoping we'd have children by Thanksgiving but now I don't know if that will happen. Our worker called because she was just getting everything ready to send to the agency for our home-study. We finished our other live scan at least two weeks ago. So if she waits two weeks from this one, that another 4 weeks! Then the agency takes like two weeks to call and schedule the home study. Then, our worker comes out here and licences our home. So we are probably looking at another 8 weeks until we are approved. I just....I'm so bummed.

Well, now for some good news. I went to a baptism last Sunday. A New Light sang His Hands. It was a young single mother from S. Africa. Her uncle and his family have been trying to get her to attend our church, but she was adamantly against it. Then she got lost trying to find another church and drove right into the parking lot of an LDS church. The spirit was ao amazingly strong. I was so touched to be a part of the program. You could just feel the angels dancing when she came up from the water. She is obviously a very special spirit. She talked about how much she wanted a church where there was love and the members served each other, and I was so touched by that. It made me resolve to do more service for others.

It's beginning to look like a home!

We spent the day working on our house. We trimmed a bunch of trees and bushes so the yard doesn't look so over grown. We discovered that we have an orange tree, plum tree, lemon tree, pomegranate tree, and a fig tree! We also met our next door neighbor. They have the most incredible yard! You could easily fit two more houses on their lot. That is unheard of in CA. We thought we had a huge yard, now after seeing both our nextdoor neighbors' yards, we think we may have been cheated! lol!

We also put together the nursery. We hung curtains, and put the crib together, and hung shelves. I haven't decided what else to do with it yet, it looks pretty bare right now. It's hard to decide how to decorate though when we don't know if we'll adopt two girls, two boys, or one of each...

We put up a bumch of pictures and emptied out several more boxes. Its almost there! I'll post pics soon, I have to find the sd card converter for my computer...its somewhere in the house.

We are getting our physicals done, and still waiting on the home study...still waiting...

I just can't wait until there is baby mess everywhere!!

Cam's job is pretty solid and despite the furloughs, we are so grateful that he has a job. Especially one that he loves. I however, am having a terrible time finding a job. Argh. It is quite difficult when you don't have any skills or a degree... I do have three voice students now though. Hopefully I'll get more soon.

Could I be more lazy?

OK, so I skipped out on my homework this week, and I have a paper due today...ugh I just can't get myself to do it. It's only 500 words!!! So instead, I'm farming on facebook. 

I went to Utah last weekend to perform with A New Light at a missionary reunion. It went really well, and I got to spend some time with my mom. Cameron was a total stud and cleaned up a lot of the boxes and mess at home. 

We are having fun having a yard. Cameron has his first furlough day tomorrow and we are going to use it to plant our first garden. We have tomato vines in pots, and today we found a little tomato on one! We are going to plant beans, peas, squash, potatoes, corn, and some other stuff. Lets just hope we can turn our thumbs from bluish black to green!

We are almost done with our approval adoption process. We are currently waiting to be contacted by the independent adoption agency the county works through. They will set up a home study with us. Hopefully they'll call soon before I go crazy! lol!

Not much else going on. :)