Pictures and Prayer Requests

First of all, I'm sorry for the look of this blog.  I don't like it one bit.  I was trying to change it up for Haiti and the giraffe background wasn't cutting it.  I have no idea how I managed to mess it up and I'm trying to figure out how to fix it without screwing it up even more.  Ugh.  Now on to more important stuff.

We have access to pictures from the orphanage we will be adopting from and I can't stop looking at them.  There is one particular picture where the children (who look to be about 2-4 years of age) are sitting on top of boxes that were recently donated to their orphanage.  They received boxes and boxes of dry milk.  The kids that are 3 or younger will get 2 cups of reconstituted dry milk twice a day to help ward off malnutrition.  They have their little hands up in the air cheering for their dry milk donation in this picture.  They have so little and are thankful.  I'm excited to be on this journey and humbled God is using us.

I'm excited because after this adoption is final, it's really only the beginning of our journey to help the orphans.  Think of all we could do for this orphanage with our money and resources!  It's so exciting!

We have to have psychological evaluations for the Haitian dossier, we need eight passport photos for each of us and pictures of our home and family and we are done with the dossier!!!  Eeeek!  

Here are some ways you can pray for us:

1. For our psych evaluation to go smoothly and that it won't take forever to get the report to put in the dossier.

2. That all our dossier docs are approved and that we won't have to re-do anything and we can get it sent off to Haiti.

3. We have the money to send the dossier and to take care of the smaller fees such as USCIS (immigration) application fee of $720 and the $85 per person fingerprint fee and passports, which is a huge praise.  Just keep praying for that international fee to build up.  

4. We have four grant applications filled out but just not sent because we are waiting for the final copy of our home study, because they all require a copy along with several other documents.  Pray they have funds to help us out!

Thanks everyone!