This past week has been full of excitement! We’ve had a lot going on – and not just in our own little world. Where to start…

~A New Arrival!~
Our beautiful little niece, Hannah Faith, made her grand entrance into the world on 9/12/2009 at 10:01 PM! The family is all doing well after her arrival – thankfully my mother-in-law (who had been recovering from surgery) was well enough to be in the room when she was delivered, along with Rebekah. Congratulations to Jeremy and Heather, and welcome little Hannah Faith!!

Hannah’s arrival is certainly bittersweet. I am ecstatic to be and proud to be an uncle, but at the same time, it’s tough considering the situation Rebekah and I are facing. I know we face a pretty long road ahead to become parents and no one said it’ll be easy, but the Lord has a plan for us and we just have to continue down the path that he’s laid for us. Until the day we have our own “Peanut” to spoil, we’ll just spoil our precious little niece rotten!

~Status Updates~
We’ve selected the agency who’ll be handling our home study, Nathanson Adpotion Services,  and have started the application process with them and hope to send that in this week. We’ve had some developments in the last week or so that could only be the Lord’s doing to help open doors and guide us in directions to go. I can’t really explain these in detail just yet as nothing is set in concrete with these yet, but they are starting to solidify.

Our next steps are to finish our application for Nathanson, write yet another check and put it in the mail. Then will start the process of doctor visits, background checks, reference letters, etc. to complete our home study. We just keep plugging along and the Lord will open the doors that need opened and shut the ones that need shut. We’ll just keep walking through the ones He opens as He opens them