Blessed Our Hearts & Hopefully Soon - Our Arms!

At our meeting in Columbia two weeks ago, Derek and I were asked to start completing lots of tasks. One task was completing our physicals so we can begin our home study. I am happy to say that we have completed these and we are waiting on the adoption agency to get the paperwork. Hopefully, we will know soon when the home study and interviews will start! After the interviews and home study, we will be on the waiting list!

I am always truly amazed at how God is just opening doors and blessing us through this entire journey! I am so humbled by your prayers, sweet notes and help with fundraising. 

A sweet group of friends blessed our hearts this Christmas by being very sneaky and changing a $20 gift exchange into one of the sweetest ways to help our adoption. I was seriously in shock and I'm not sure that I said, "THANK YOU!" enough times. I sat there like I was in a dream and played it over and over again in my head to process the love and friendship that was in that room! Thank you to my sweet "Girls of 29369"! Y'all have blessed our hearts and hopefully soon - our arms with a sweet baby! XOXO

Also, my sweet faculty at school did a charity donation during our Christmas party and our adoption was put in the basket as a charity and was drawn! We are continually blessed and just beyond grateful for your love! 

To say the least, our Christmas has been blessed beyond measure and we know that we don't what the future holds for us but we do know who holds our future! 

Love y'all!

Karilyn

Thankful for Wonderful Family & Friends!

Things have been really busy with adoption progress and fundraisers! This blog post is LONG overdue!

First, I have to give a HUGE SHOUT-OUT to everyone who helped us at Pizza Inn on November 21st! That was no easy task and our family and friends just jumped in and helped us tremendously!!! THANK YOU so much for giving your time to come and take orders and serve drinks at Pizza Inn! I don't think that I will ever be able to repay each of you for what you did to help us that night! Derek and I just keep saying that we can't believe how many people showed up to help us! We are so grateful for everything that you did to help us reach our dream of becoming parents. Y'all made the night run so smoothly and you have blessed Derek and I beyond comprehension!!!!

To everyone who came & feasted on pizza and generously tipped the ever so lovely wait staff, THANK YOU! It was so wonderful to see each of you and be able to talk & fellowship with each of you! We are so thankful for your friendship and love!

Without both of those groups of people, our Pizza Inn fundraiser would not have been so successful! That night we raised over $2000 for our adoption! WOW!!! This is beyond what we expected to raise that night! The Pizza Inn staff couldn't believe what we made that night either. They were already begging us to come back and do another fundraiser for our adoption! It is amazing the way that God is just pouring His love on us during this whole process! We just know that the child that God has for us is out there and we are looking forward to meeting him or her!


Update on the Adoption Process...
We have turned in our paperwork to start our home study with our agency. Unfortunately, this agency does not accept our previous home study, which is a bummer because we loved the lady that we did our first home study with last year. We are waiting to hear if we made the training session in Columbia next Friday! I will update the blog when we find out!

Please keep praying for this whole process, but more importantly please pray for the woman who will be allowing us to parent her baby! She is making a huge sacrifice for us. She is a woman that I will always cherish, because she is the woman that will make me a mom! What a hard decision to make!

We have been told numerous times that adoptions can happen just from word of mouth. If you know someone who is considering adoption, please share with them our adoption book. It is just a little inside look into our lives!

Click here to see our adoption book!


Love y'all!
Karilyn