Thursday
Aug262010

Adoption Profile (book) is sent

We went off our adoption scrapbook proof to the adoption agency Sunday (which just so happened to be our 12yr. Wedding Anniversary!!!).

Our case worker called us today to tell us that there were only a few corrections to be made, and asked if it would be OK for us to make the corrections overnight and send it the corrections via PDF for a couple to look at tomorrow! (yes, this is very fast).

So, basically this couple will be looking over several fancy books of other couples and then peruse over to our ghetto stapled group of pages! Ha ha.

Anyway, thank you all for your thoughts and prayers!!! Love yall!!!

Wednesday
Jul142010

Big next steps

We sent off the VERY big check to The Gladney center for adoption yesterday ($13,500)! And now just owe the final 6,625 due upon placement.

Today dg and I are putting the final touches on the profile (Aka scrapbook) to send a proof to our caseworker. Once she approves it, we will order copies and send to the agency for potential birth moms and dads to choose us from. So keep up the prayers

Wednesday
May192010

CPR training is done!!!

Just finished out CPR training! Such a sweet trainer! One more small step in our journey for a little one to love!!! Thank you all for your thoughts & prayers!

Saturday
May012010

Baby shower day

Our sweet friends threw us a 'pre' baby shower today. We had a wonderful time!! We are just blown away with the love that is being showered upon us and we love each of you!

We completed our adoption profile last night and sent it to our caseworker to look over and give us suggestions. Then we make copies , write a letter to birth parents and wait for God to connect the dots!!!

Monday
Apr192010

Moving Right Along + Baby Shower!

Just wanted to let everyone know we are still trucking along. We have officially looked through every photo in all of our hard drives to then pick through the 150 photos and decide which ones are best for our portfolio (the "All about D.G. and Tiffany photo book"). once we figure out the photos and where to place them using Apple's iPhoto we then will work on the wording for the book, and then send a proof to our Adoption Agency for their approval then print 5-7 books up and they send the books to the Birth Mom's!!! Then of course the Mom's choose us and we just go from there.

Since Tiffany and I will not be officially on staff at Florence United Methodist Church in June the sweet people of the church want to throw us a baby shower before we leave!!! We are so blown away by their love and generosity! So, Tiffany and I went and did something we never thought we would ever get to do, we went and did 4 baby registries! It was extremely overwhelming with all the "stuff" in all of the stores. But we have registered @ Babies R Us, Target, Amazon.com, and Park + Vine!

OK, so if you notice Tiffany and I have decided we are going to attempt cloth diapers! Yes, yes we know it has the potential to be gross, and perhaps the money we save on disposable diapers we might spend on non-latex gloves, ha ha ha... but we are trying to save money and be green! So, we shall see, but the challenge is that the cloth diapers are going to be a high cost up front and save money in the long run...so, if your looking for things to buy us please consider that and/or gift cards!

If your interested in attending the Baby Shower you can find the 411 (Information) At the following Link:

Hollums Baby Shower on Evite.com

We got our first gift from Amazon.com and it is a baby monitor!! It was the top recommend that Consumer Reports suggested! We are so blessed!Most of the products we chose were due tothe help of Consumer Reports, and of course my Aunt Harryette for letting us use your Comsumer Reports account online! love you Aunt Harryette!

Also, all of the links work if you want to help us out with the stuff, but if your local I want to encourage you to at least go check out Park+Vine in Downtown Cincinnati. It is a completely "Green" store in Cincy, and they have some very cool "green stuff". Even if you don't buy anything you can still check out what they have to offer, and all you have to do is go into the store and tell them our names and they can give you the list we created and the grab bag we filled with stuff.

We love you all and cannot tell yall enough all how much we love and appreciate you! We hope in some small way we can continue the blessing you give us to this special little one and others! Bless yall!