Baby Chores

If you are wondering, baby chores are the chores that Mollie and I are having to do to finish and finalize our international home study.  Mollie's gastroenterologist brought his letter to Catholic Charities up to Chick-Fil-A tonight and so that makes one thing completed.  Tomorrow, Mollie and I are going to the Brandon court house/Jail to get our finger prints done and sent in to the FBI.  That will be the starting point of our FBI criminal back ground checks.  So, the ball is rolling and we are checking items off of our home study, one by one.  Next on the list is to buy a 7 pound fire extinguisher to replace the little one and to get our extensive blood work done.  Praise be to God!!!  WE ARE SO EXCITED!  And to prove our excitement, a former employee came to Chick-Fil-A this evening and spoke to Mollie.  When Mollie was talking with her, she asked Mollie if she was prego because she was glowing.  Mollie told her no but that she and I were adopting.  Mollie said that she looked like she was about to fall when she told her that.  She then said that was what she was talking about.  Mollie looked very excited.  She told Mollie that what we are doing is a great thing and there are going to be peaks and valleys but for us not to give up.  I think this was a wonderful God moment.  I think God has given Mollie the expectant mother "glow!"  God cares so much for us and this is a way to confirm that.

What a difference a week makes

To God all glory, honor, and praise.  We have seen answered prayers this week and God has shown himself to Mollie and myself in such a way that we can only say it was him.  Oneway Printing has agreed to do our t-shirts, we are setting up a meeting with a close friend about the planning and all for our 5k run/walk, and we have already seen God work in the area of provisions as our Jehovah Jireh!  We just want to keep everyone following us through our blog, through facebook or twitter updated and to let you all know that God is who he says he is, just ask, just seek and he will prove himself to you as well. 

Busy Day

Well, we had a long day.  We were able to get some things done though.  We went today to get our finger prints done for the FBI criminal background check part of our international home study.  We just were not able to get them done.  The machine that they use just wasn't working.  They told us that this is how they do the finger prints now and if they did them with the ink, they could smear and it would not help us at all.  Thanks to Matt Gipson for helping us today and being willing to tell us that the ink would not be good for us.  We were also able to get some info about adoption financial information.  In all, I say we had a great day.

Brainstorming

Support can come in all types.  There is emotional support, prayer support, financial support...you get the picture.  Mollie and I are in the process of brainstorming ideas for fund raisers for financial help with our adoption.  We trust that God is our Great Provider, Jehovah Jireh, and in faith, we are believing that the finances will be there.  So, in believing, we are coming up with fund raisers.  We have bought large blue plastic baby bottles that are piggy banks, we are planning a 5-K run/walk, we are also trying to do some possible spirit nights at Chick-Fil-A, and we are wanting to do T-shirts that will go along with the 5-K run/walk.  We need some help.  We are needing to find a company that can help with our T-shirts for a low price or a discounted price.  We are already coming up with the design and a friend of our's is coming up with that.  We are just needing to find help with the printing of the T-shirts.  We want to thank you all in advance with all your support, whether that is financial, emotional, or prayer.  THANK YOU!!  We know that times are tough but we believe in God and know that he owns the cattle on 1000 hills, heck, he owns the hills those cattle are on.  May God bless and again, thank you.

Faith

Just wanted to include my life verse before going to sleep tonight.  It has been on my mind for 2 days now and there is a lot of faith, security, and assurance in it.  Habakkuk 1:5 says to, "watch and be utterly amazed.  For I (God) am going to do something in your day that you would not believe, even if you were told."  That verse just really speaks to me about our adoption, the finances for the adoption, our little boy Kolton, and maybe even the entire process.  To him all glory and honor!

Our first Post

A lot of you have been asking about any news on our adoption.  Well, we created this blog to keep everyone in the loop.  This is our first blog and first post, so we hope you like it.  We also want to thank you in advance for all your prayers, support, encouragement and your joining us in this new season of our lives.  We are adopting a baby boy from Korea, well, at least that is what we have applied for and are praying for.  We met with our social worker today, 7/13/2011, for our second meeting.  We paid a deposit for our international home study, received our "book"let of paper work that requires us to add more paper work to it to send in, and we also put in our application with Holt International for our Korean baby boy.  Mollie and I are very excited and words cannot express the joy and the other emotions we are feeling at this time.  We have even decided on a name for our child, I told you we were excited!  Any way, his name will be Kolton Garrett Reynolds.  We will continue to update this as new information comes and as often as needed.  Again, thank you.