Adoption

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When God speaks to us in such a clear and persistent voice we have two options, we can ignore it or answer him YES! God has been telling Jeff and I that he has had plans for us since before we got married. I remember Jeff taking me home from a date and us swinging on my parent's porch swing and he said, "I wonder what kind of mission field we will be in?". God has never stopped leading us to the point that we are now which is adoption. Adoption specifically has been on our hearts for about 3 years. We almost started the foster classes and joining DCS and then we found out we were getting our little Piper. God had different plans. Right now we have our HUGE folder of documents that need to filled out and notarized, documents need to be collected, Jeff and I both have to write an autobiography, they even want our vet records! We also have a county, Ethiopia. We are so excited and so nervous at the same time. Having a biological child was alot easier (even with morning sickness!) adoption is complete foreign ground that I hope you will explore with us.

Please be in prayer for us. We need time to complete the paper work. We need prayer for our family, the evil one has already been sticking his nose where it does not belong. We need God's Army of Angles surrounding each of us especially Max, Cooper, and Piper.

I will definitely update the blog with each little bit of progress. This will be a long road. We have been told it should take at least 18 months to Two years to get a referral and then more time until we get to go get our little girl. God will be with us the whole way!

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