Prayer is What We Need

Thanks to the loads of you who have been so supportive this past week and a half! Many of you have asked if there's anything you can do to help, and the truth is, there totally is:

 

We need a ton of prayer! We need a team of prayers!

This whole thing is FAR from said and done, as much as I wish otherwise. Below I'm listing several things we've been praying for, and if you'd like to support our family/adoption by praying regularly with us, we'd welcome it!!

• Please pray for our boys. Pray that they would be fed and changed, healthy and safe, held and loved, and warm and dry every day, and that God would touch their hearts and implant in them an ability to love and be loved by Him as well as by us.

• Please pray that we would get court dates soon (the next step), that everything would be perfectly in order, that we'd get a favorable ruling, and that after that we would sail seamlessly through the visa processes with the US Embassy.

• Please pray that God would provide and that we would be able to raise all the money we need to complete the travel portion of the process.

• Please pray that God would give us wisdom in planning and endurance in waiting. I have to admit, I didn't think waiting would be harder after referrals, but it totally is, we feel like our hearts are broken every day, we miss them so much. 

• Please pray for Him to bless and protect us throughout the rest of the process (waiting, planning, going, staying, and coming home).

There's much more to pray over, like starting a new family and all that that entails, but these are the main things on our hearts right now. Thanks so much for being a part of God's work in our lives! Please let us know how we can pray for you too!!

REFERRAL DAY IS HERE AT LAST

We have finally received our referraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal!!!!!!!!!!

Today is a magical, beautiful, momentous, heart-breaking, and craaaazy day! We now have pictures, faces, names, and stories to go with the love that just keeps growing in our hearts. Today we were officially give the opportunity to say YES! We want them! We can't WAIT to adopt them and have them in our arms, in our family and in our lives forever!!! We can't WAIT to be the parents of two little...

BOYS!!!!

We're naming them Desmond and Quincy (we love their current names too and will keep them as their middle names) and let me tell ya, they are, hands-down, the two cutest little boys in this UNIVERSE!!! We can't post pictures until we pass court and have custody, but just picture some seriously, heart-meltingly cute little dudes!! And they're both about the same age; just over a year old. That's right, two baby boys!!! As I said, we can't WAIT!!!

What now, right? Well, we've officially requested court dates for custody. Usually it takes about 3 months from referral to court date, but it can sometimes be faster or slower. We will be traveling for court, so obviously we're PRAYING that day comes soooooo soon!!!

Referral day also had some unexpected sadness to it. On a day like this you can't pretend your kids are doing great on the other side of the world. There's a sobering realization that there are tough reasons for why they need to be adopted, and that life without a loving family is so hard, I don't think most grown folks I know could take it. All we can do now is pray that we can hold them in our arms soooo soon, and then bring them home shortly after.

Thanks so much for your love and support. Please continue to pray with us for our boys, and that they would come home soon. Praise God! He knows what He's doing!!!!
 
2 years, 11 months, 1 week and 6 days since we started the process of adoption.