Papers

I'm am so excited to say that we are at the very end of our paperwork. We did receive our letter back from Homeland Security and all went well with our fingerprinting. I am in the final stage of gathering everything together, getting the appropriate pages notarized and then apostilled. But we are very close. Once this last step is done, I will submit everything to my agency for final review, make any corrections needed & then off it will go to Colombia! I can't even tell you how excited I am to be almost done with this part of the process. God has been SO good & we are believing that he will provide that is still needed.

I was able to get a grant application in to Shaohannah's Hope & am awaiting word on that. I should know in the next couple months. This would be a HUGE blessing. We know God will provide though even if we don't get this grant.

Check out our shirts & sweatshirts at www.mazeyrecords.bigcartel.com if you haven't already. All the proceeds for the shirts goes right into our Mazey fund. We are grateful to all of you who have helped support us in this area. It is a big blessing.

This weekend I went with my friend, Joanna, to Alexandria VA. She was speaking on a panel to college students at a Campus Crusade for Christ Conference. She did a great job! We had a lot of fun walking around old town Alexandria. We also got to have lunch with Jenny Furey & see Theresa Smith! It was fun! Hope your Valentine's Day was fun!

Waiting for Word

We are still waiting for word about our finger printing. I have also completed the paperwork on a grant. Just need to send a few things off to them and then we wait to see if we will get that or not. Not sure how long exactly all this will take but we have learned that waiting is just part of this process.

In the mean time, we are doing our best to enjoy the time we have together. Today we had the day off together and went to Salem, Jeremy took some pictures, we got some coffee, went walking at the mall & had dinner at Panera. Now we are about to sit down and enjoy a movie. The wait isn't so bad. : ) We are thankful for all the time we have together.

Finger Printing

We are now officially in the Homeland Security Database. We went to West Virginia this morning for our finger printing. We got up at 4:15am & drove there for our 8 & 9am appointments. We were the first ones there so it was pretty quick. They didn't make me wait until 9. It was a pretty dreary ride - rained the whole time but we are glad to mark one more thing off the list!

Appointment & Other News

We have our homeland security appointment on Tuesday in West Virginia. This is for our finger printing. Please pray for good weather & quick appointments! Thank you!

Today we said goodbye to our dear friends, Chris & Suzie Skinner. They have moved to North Carolina. We had a party for them last night & it was so fun to see all the people who love them so much all come together. We pray that their new life there will be blessed. Jeremy traveled down with them to help... he gets to say goodbye tomorrow. BUT it isn't really goodbye... just see you soon. We will miss the day to day relationship with them though. Love you guys! They have an amazing story... log on to www.chrisskinner.org to read about them.

Hope in a New Year

Happy New Year... almost!

A new year can represent a new beginning to some, resolutions to others & just another year to try again.

This year ... I have hope.
Hope for Mazey.
Hope for even more love for my husband, friends & family.
Hope for new ways of showing them.
Hope for the future & the family that that represents to me.
Hope in my God... he provides all our needs, he knows, understands & answers all our desires in his timing.
Hope to further understand who HE is and who he wants ME to be.
Hope to not take things for granted!
Hope for those who need answers... God has what you need.
Hope for all of you to hope for something too!

Many, many blessings this 2009.

Mazey Records

I'm so excited to finally get to post this! Jeremy has been inspired to create some designs to raise funds for the adoption. He has created "Mazey Records". The label is fictitious at this point, however, we do have one band that is about ready to "sign" with us.

Please check it out... http://mazeyrecords.bigcartel.com/.
We hope to have more items & designs later.



"Child of Light"

Mazey Records is a creative way for us to cover adoption expenses while also allowing our friends & family to play a part in bringing Mazey & her brother or sister home.

Also, if you are part of the Facebook world or would like to be... head over to http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55618312183#/group.php?gid=55618312183&ref=nf to join the Mazey Records group.

HUGE thanks to Aaron, Bret & Sam for helping us with the details & to all of you for loving and supporting us! We are so blessed!

Please pass it on... tell friends & family! Thanks so much!

Good News

Just thought I'd post this real quick... our agency did receive their Hague Accreditation! Thank you for praying!

Things are going well with everything. We are just waiting to hear when our final fingerprinting is and we are almost done with everything.

More news coming soon.