funny pictures & how you can pray

So . . . we did some family pictures for our dossier, and I was wondering which set of these I should use?!  What do you think?

After I struggled to get those last two, I realized that we don’t even have to include pictures of the two of them together.  Oh well.  Riley’s really not quite as evil as he looks in those top ones.  He was just giving me a hard time!

I spoke with our case worker at AGCI today, and she’ll be checking in every two weeks to see how things are going.  There are a couple of things you can pray about with us:

1) We got fingerprinted downtown last week before Brad headed to Haiti and got them mailed off that same day.  The instructions I read said that they would be ready in approximately 2.5 weeks.  Today, however, I found out that it’s taking approximately 12 weeks to get those back for some reason.  Please pray that ours will get processed much more quickly than that because our home study (which is practically ready) can’t be approved until we have them back.  It’s important to get our home study approved because we can’t apply for grants until it is AND we can’t submit our dossier until we have an approved home study.

2) As I talked with Julie today, we discussed our parameters (which are one or two children, ages 0-5, one boy, two boys, or a boy and a girl).  From what I had previously heard from others, our chances of adopting siblings seemed pretty good.  It had even been suggested that it was likely that we’d get a referral pretty quickly.  Julie, however, said that it is probably more likely that we’d get a referral for one boy more quickly than siblings.  That would be fine, but we’ve kind of gotten our hearts set on adding two more kids to our family.  That being said, we’ve totally put that in God’s hands.  He knows what is ahead of us, and He knows what we can handle.  Please pray that we’ll know whether to hold out for siblings, if need be, or have peace about adopting one little boy.  Either way we’ll be extremely blessed.  We just want to make sure that we pray about that decision and go in the direction we feel God leading us in.

Thank you!