And So It Begins...

Well, this is our first blog but we thought we better start one to keep everyone updated on what is going on in our lives...especially since we are going to have a lot of updates coming on our adoption! Yes, for those of you who may not have known, we have started the international adoption process!! We are adopting from the Philippines and couldn't be any more excited about it. I'll try to give a quick background to get everyone caught up on where we are today...

Back in April we really started to feel like it was time to start looking into the process..."looking into" ended up being the start of the process! We really felt like God was leading us down this path and that the timing was right. Almost immediately we ran into a roadblock that had us questioning our timing...the Philippines was not open for adoption of children under the age of 9 unless they have special needs.That definitely seemed too big for us...it's a good thing that nothing is too big for God! God lead us here for a reason and we knew we should proceed. Little did we know, proceeding meant sitting around for 6 months without making any progress...at least that is what we thought!

It ended up that God was doing things behind the scenes and we were informed on December 3rd that the Philippines had opened for adoptions of all ages! They would only be allowing applications from 5 families per adoption agency so we weren't "in" just yet. But by the 7th we had word that we would be one of 5 families from our agency! So, here we are a few days before Christmas and officially starting the adoption process!