It's Done!!!!!!!

So last night I was obsessively checking my e-mail to see if our homestudy had been approved.....and I do mean obsessively. :) Well, since All God's Children is 2 hours behind us I though just maybe there was a chance, and it was only some updates and paragraph type changes....so....you can imagine my EXCITEMENT when I saw an e-mail from Emily saying it was good to go! Yeah!!!!!!!

OK so I mentioned this on facebook, but I will review - I was completely bummed- ok honesty strikes- I was UPSET on Monday. Our homestudy social worker called and said that when she checked in with the person in IA who was supposed to do our background check for us....they told her they never recieved it. WHAT????? That was faxed 2 weeks ago!!!! What do you mean??? Now you get the picture my brain was about to explode. Other than some changes/issues that just needed to be reworded or added...this was the only piece missing from a complete homestudy which would complete our dossier!

So after - honesty stikes again- a lot of crying and praying....I calmed down. Jason was saying- you remember it is God's timing right? Yep, I know, but my goal was to get our homestudy and dossier in by Oct 2. So in my world - order was out of wack already! Yes, I am that way sometimes :) Now you have reason to pray for Jason :)

So you could imagine my VERY EXCITED SELF as I read that our homestudy was approved and our IA background check both came in YESTERDAY!!!!! Yep, a miracle that I was given :) Made me happy and I was so excited....that as the clock turned this morning I was bugging our home study social worker- right after she got in the office. Almost yelling in her ear- did you see the great news????? She got to work right away - upon my urging- to get it printed and notarized today. Of course after threatening her life- I mean asking so sweetly- please please please :) Her secretary was more than happy to do that- and put a rush on it!!!

That is why there is a crazy picture of our UPS store, and our dossier being sent off!!! Look at all that hard work - ahhhh.....loads of hours.....loads of online classes......loads of questions from our social worker....loads of ordering documents.....loads of money......loads of dreaming about our Naomi (after we found out about her)................and the list goes on. So there it is......really quite boring.

We also had to send a copy of our homestudy to the USCIS- H*meland Security so they have it to review as well. You know make sure we are ok to adopt a child :) YEAH!

***Side note you notice our baby has her face blotted out.....rules of our agency- and great ones to never post a pic of our sweet girl online until we bring her home :) On the other side of life her pictures are all over our home- and I do mean all over!!!! I just can't get enough of looking into her beautiful eyes :) She is completely amazing, but you will just have to take my word for it.