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Mini Spring Break weekend in Jacksonville, FL

Good afternoon friends, family and followers! I was ashamed to realize I hadn't written a blog post yet this year! The problem is, I write them frequently in my head and they rarely make it to the computer. We don't have a whole lot to update you with but we are hopeful that 2016 will be the year we become "party of four."

Jacksonville Beach

We've been enjoying spring in our house! It's fun to see what springs up. We had tons of daffodils in front of the house and around the mailbox and now we've got irises, azaleas, and roses in bloom! This past weekend Shawn and Avery planted some pots to add color to the front of the house and we discovered baby figs and baby pears have started growing in the backyard. Now, if we can keep them all alive it will be a miracle. We do not have green thumbs but love looking at flowers.

Jacksonville Zoo

Our agency keeps us updated with how many times they have sent our profile out to prospective birth mothers and how many views our profile is getting online. These numbers have been fairly steady but we still haven't made the connection with that special lady that we are hoping for. We are still hopeful though and we know that when the time does come we'll be able to look back and understand why we were meant to wait.

Hiking in the Georgia Mountains

We've been working the last few weeks to update our homestudy. It hasn't quite been another year but we need to have everything done so that our social worker can get it updated before the one from last year expires. Even though nothing has changed this required physicals for all of us, financial statements, verification of employment, fingerprinting for the FBI and GBI, and a few other forms. The fingerprinting is the silliest - we had to go to 2 different UPS stores - one for the FBI and one for the GBI. Our social worker came for a visit as well. She's a very sweet lady and Avery just loves her. We hope the next time we see her is for a post-placement visit.

We appreciate you sharing our story and helping us spread the word. We know our agency is promoting us but we are also hopeful that we can make a connection with a birthmother through mutual friends. Thanks to one of our friends giving me a contact that may have known of a possible birthmother, I called up a stranger ended up talking to her for quite a while. She and her husband adopted 7 months ago and she had heard of another woman considering adoption. She looked into it for me after talking and it turns out that her friend hasn't seen the woman again so she didn't have any more information. But, she has my contact info now and has shared our story with several of her friends so it's just that many more people helping us network.

Vogel State Park

We definitely have our days that are difficult but we have a pretty positive outlook most of the time. When we first began the process, I saw a diaper bag that I loved. Shawn told me just to buy it and we could add things that we bought for the baby in so it was ready to go when we got the call. Over the course of almost 2 years, that diaper bag is full of sleepers, sleep gowns, and burp cloths. Now, I was able to laugh about it, but the day I saw our diaper bag for sale in TJMaxx, I definitely had the thought of "we've been waiting so long our diaper bag is in TJMaxx!?" :-)

Running through the sprinkler! Looking forward to lots of backyard fun this summer!

Thanks for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers! Please feel free to share our blog and get in touch with us if you would like extra info or a profile to share with someone.