One Thing Remains - Bethel Live

Just wanted to share :)

~home study, bunk beds and fall decorations~

  

We had our home study yesterday, well, the first part anyways. I was a little disappointed when she said she would have to come back another day to do the home environment part of the home study, but she said it wouldn't take as long as yesterday did. I thought I would have a lot to share about it but I really don't. We each had a personal interview and then we had a couples interview. She asked us a ton of questions about our family, our parents, our childhood, how we discipline, what sort of things we expect will change after children are placed with us, stuff like that. We also talked about the range of age we would be interested in. We would like for the children to be under Bryson's age but we would be willing to go up to age five if we need to, but we will see what God has in store for us! She did say that she thought it would be possible that we could be certified in three weeks! She also told us about a family that got certified on Monday and got a placement on Tuesday! How crazy would that be! I'm hoping to be able to spend Thanksgiving with a new little one :) 

 

I have been preparing our home for the home study for months now! I wasn't really sure what they would be checking for, but if they opened a drawer or a cabinet I wanted it to look perfect and clean! So I have cleaned every inch of this house and organized all or my drawers and cabinets. The best part about getting the house ready was preparing a room for the new kiddos! I wasn't really sure what to do for the room since we don't know the age or gender, so I did the best I could! The room isn't anything special right now but hopefully I can find some little things to add every now and then. Here's a picture!

 

It still needs some curtains and some stuff to hang on the wall and maybe a night light. It's sad that Bryson is too big to sleep in the crib now. In fact, he is so big that he has bunk beds now!


 

  

I was so excited to get them, probably more excited them! I just loved the thought of getting a brother for Bryson and all the fun they would have playing on these beds! Makes my heart happy! Thanks Aunt Beth for the bunk beds and all of the bedding! Such a blessing! Bryson loves them! He loves that the bottom bunk is like a tent, and I have to admit, it is nice and cozy under there! I may have taken a short little two hour nap in there yesterday!

  

 

I also did a little fall decorating to get our home ready! Here are a few pics!

 

 

 

 

 



I love this time of year, everything about it! Can't wait for Thanksgiving! 

 But that's all I have for now! I need to get a little stinky boy to bed! Please continue to be in prayer for us! We are oh so close to finishing!

-this little blog of mine-

I have been hitting the keys on this stinking keyboard for an hour a week now trying to write exactly what I want to say. I type a sentence or even a paragraph but it's quickly followed by the backspace key. I've had this problem since I started this blog in May and I think its because I just have so much that I want to share that I am having a hard time finding a place to start! So I'm just going to start typing and hopefully it will all make sense in the end. :)  I started this blog in May because I wanted to share with everyone about our decision to adopt through foster care. Adoption has always been apart of the plans for our future but we always figured it would be after we were done having kids of our own, but we are learning that God's plans are greater than ours!

After much prayer we decided that pregnancy was not a good option for me or our family so we started looking into adoption. I started researching different agencies and I even requested informational packets from several. They all sounded like good options, but the only one that had a local office was Buckner Family Services. On the back of their brochure was some information about fostering to adopt. This was an option that we had never considered and we thought that we should look into it. We had a ton of questions! So in March we met with the people at Buckner to discuss what fostering to adopt means and left feeling confident that God was leading us in that direction. There are hundreds of children in our state and even our county that need to be loved and cared for. Opening our home and our hearts to these children just made sense to us.
We want to show love like we are shown love.  

We started all of the paperwork and classes in May. Everything moved along smoothly until summer came. It was the busiest summer that we have ever had! Chris went to Africa for two weeks on a mission trip, then we went to youth camp for a week, we all went on a mission trip in Houston for a week and we went to visit family in Amarillo for a week. On top of that, my most favorite sister stayed with us for a whole month! :)  I knew that once summer was over that we would be able to finish up the last of it quickly, but there was a change of plans....

~SuPrIsE!!!~

Yep, it was a surprise! Big time! I showed Chris the test and we laughed... and then I cried! It wasn't going to be easy especially since our family lives 10 hours away. The next few weeks included blood work, doctors appointments, and lots and lots of prayer but about three weeks later I had a miscarriage. From day one we chose to praise God and trust in His perfect timing and in the end we continued to trust in Him! Through our loss He confirmed the desire in our hearts to open our home and our hearts to the children in need of love.

Thank you Jesus for your perfect timing!

  

We are excited to continue on our journey to meeting the special little ones that will soon steal a piece of our hearts! Your prayers are very much appreciated along with any questions or advice that you might have! I am excited to share this journey with you through my blog! Don't worry, next time there will be real pictures and I promise that I will update often! I might even blog about my Pinterest projects gone bad! (cause they all go bad)

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

**I got the picture of the pregnancy test from google. That's not actually the test I used. Just thought I should clarify.

 

***If you were wondering about my past pregnancy problems you can check out the old blog here.