Homestudy Approved!

Last week our homestudy report was completed and went through the final review stages. Our adoption agency e-mailed on Thursday to let us know our homestudy is now being finalized and we should have a copy in the next week. This is great news, now we can begin our immigration phase. I have completed our application to immigration and will be mailing it this week. The next step will be to be fingerprinted in Dallas. Due to China being a Hague country, our immigration steps will be completely different with this adoption. We now will receive a pre-approval from immigration to bring a child into the U.S. whereas with Shayle, we received our final approval to bring her home. Once we receive our RA, referral acceptance, from China we will then have a large amount of paperwork to fill out to obtain final approval to bring home a specific child. This is a major change since our first adoption. Please be in prayer for us as we begin waiting for all of these approvals to fall into place.

We are expecting to see a shared list come out this week! We are excited, since we are open to adopting a boy, the wait time for referral is very short. We may be getting called with a referral off of this list. We are asking for prayer as we will have to make a quick decision. Ultimately, we want God's will to be carried out.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!

These sweet girls wrapped up a gift for me! So sweet.

First Day of 2nd Grade

08/24/09

First Day of 5th Grade
08/24/09

We have been very busy in the Pierce house this summer. Now that the kids are back to school, I hope to get back to bloggy world! The kids have had a great first week back to school and all seem to like their teachers and classes. Shayle will start kindergarten the day after Labor Day. She will be going until noon to allow time for rest & speech in the afternoon and some time with mommy. She is doing very well and progressing every week with her speech. We are very proud of her. She is excited to start to school. Everyday she asks if she's going today since all her siblings are away at school. When I tell her not today, she replies, "Awe Man". Wonder who taught her that.

I have a good excuse for not blogging much the past two months. We have some good news to share with you. WE ARE PREGNANT!!!!

Paper Pregnant that is......................Yes, God has been speaking loudly to us as we spent several months in prayer over adopting again. We have officially finished our homestudy and are anxiously awaiting a referral from China's shared list, which should come out in the next 7-14 days. The earliest we think we would travel would be late spring or summer 2010 if we receive a referral in the next 2-3 months.

Just a few of the documents we have been filling out over the last six weeks

WE ARE EXPECTING, another child is on the way from China!!!! We will no longer be a Party of Seven, now we will be a Party of Eight. We are very excited to see who God brings into our family, most are voting for a baby brother except for Shayle. She wants a mei mei, a little sister. I will keep this blog updated as we move along with this adoption journey. We hope you will join us as we pray for God's perfect will, God's timing and God's all sufficient Grace as we know there will be times of frustration along with times of joy as we seek His will.