Biometrics, Dossier and other things!

Hey Everyone!! I have been so remiss and haven't posted in over a month...ugh! Sorry to not keep you updated but the only excuse I have is...life keeps happening! HA! I'm sure you know what I mean. This past two weeks have been ridiculously busy and have found our house stressful and crazy. Yesterday was the culmination of the craziness. We had senior sunday at church and Scott spoke, our band lead worship and then we had a luncheon to honor our seniors and their families. A couple hours later Lily had her first dance recital! Here is my sweet pea in her costume...not happy about me taking her picture but still cute!

As far as adoption stuff, well to be honest I haven't updated because it has been a couple weeks of discouragement. I've been more negative than I should and so I haven't posted anything. After waiting weeks we got our biometrics appointment and it was set for the beginning of june in Lubbock. We happen to be in Colorado for HS Youth camp so we had to reschedule. Which means waiting more weeks for another appointment hoping that we aren't out of town again, which we seem to be a lot with the youth group this summer. All of this to say our dossier cannot be turned in until this is completed and we receive our clearance. The Ethiopian government is still at a processing level of 5 per day and the longer we wait on our end the more it seems it will be at least a year for us to get our boy. I know it could work out totally differently, I'm just sharing with you what my discouragement is at this point. 

In other news, good friends of ours Daniel and Nathalie Whisnant are in the process of producing a documentary. Daniel is a phenomenal website and graphic designer and has recently started photography and filming. His good friend and his wife are adopting from Ethiopia as well and are actually ready to go pick their son up very soon. Daniel is filming and documenting the entire process and hopefully will one day use this to educate others about adoption. I encourage you to check it out and support this project. Anything that can educate and promote adoption is worth our time and support. Click HERE to access more information on this project. You can also check out the link on our blog on the left side below.