Home Study Update

We are excited to say the home study is almost done! Our paperwork and background check were approved and we had our first meeting with the social worker on March 27th. We answered a bunch of questions about our personalities, our relationship as a couple and how we plan to parent. We have our second meeting on April 10th which will be at our house. No, we don't need to deep clean or anything, they just want to make sure we don't live in a box. After that meeting, the social worker will write up our home study and we will be good to go!

What does this mean? 
Well, first of all you have to have a current home study complete before adopting a child. So it's one more thing checked off our list. Also, having the home study allows us to apply for grants.

What's next?

1. Obviously, as I stated above, we will be starting to apply for grants. 
2. We are pushing our fundraisers that I'm sure everyone knows about by now. If you're interested in signing up for the photo fundraiser click here. We are also currently collecting (any) donations for our Mammoth Garage Sale which is May 1-3. 
3. The other thing we need to start working on is our profile. This is essentially a shutterfly book with pictures and information about us. These profiles get shown to birth mothers once we get in the pool of adoptive parents. (We'll get in the pool once our funds are in which will be mid June).

BIG Prayer Requests:

1. $30,000 is a lot of money to raise! We are really praying that we will be awarded grant money to help with the cost.
2. To piggy back off our first prayer request, we'd love prayer for our fundraisers. It would be amazing to see the photo shoot slots get filled, so if you know anyone that could benefit from professional family, kids, couples photography, please send them our way. And prayers for our garage sale, that it really does become "mammoth" and weather, details and everything else we aren't thinking of all comes together.

 We just want to thank everyone for all the prayer and support! It has been a crazy journey already and we have so far to go.

We are blessed.
Ryan & Allie