Songs and poems

"I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him"
1 Samuel 1:27

I cross my heart: George Strait

From God's Arms to My Arms to Yours: Michael McLean

Arms Wide Open: Creed

A New Day Has Come: Celine Dion

When Love Takes You In: Steven Curtis Chapman

Sweet Baby: Michelle Featherstone

They Chose Me: Faith :Refined

Handprints On The Wall: Kenny Rogers

Amazing: Janelle

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Poem:
We witness a miracle every time a child enters into life.
But those who make their journey home across time and miles, growing within the hearts of those who wait to love them, are carried on the wings of destiny and placed among us by God's very own hands.
-Kristi Larson

Our children are not ours because they share our genes...they are ours because we have had the audacity to envision them. That, at the end of the day...or long sleepless night, is how love really works.
-author unkown

Longing for a child to love, I'd wish upon the stars above. In my heart I always knew, a part of me belonged to you.

The day you took my outstretched hand, a journey ended, but our lives began. Still mesmerized by your sweet face, still warmed inside by our first embrace.

Great adoption blinkies

And my all time fave blinkie:

Pictures of the nursery

We are posted as a waiting family

On the facilitators web page. OMG! I just checked like I do everyday and there we are. It is so real now...WOW!

Please GOD continue to help us through this, continue to watch over us and help us achieve our ultimate dream :O)

We had our home visit this morning

And we got verbal approval from our sw :O)
She needs all our medical and 2 more reference letters before she can write up the written approval.
Josh and I are psyched! What an accomplishment. We have learned a lot from the home study process and feel relieved that it is behind us now.
The agency received our application on 7-15 and today is 9-15-08...so much done in just 2 mos.

We are "PAPER PREGNANT" WAHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Now begins the waiting!

New middle name option for a girl

Bella...I like the way Bella sounds with Aleigha, esp. with the nickname Ali . Ali Bella, Ali Bell! So cute!!
Bella means my God is a vow.
What do you think???

PE's are done

Josh and I both got our PE's last week. We still need to get our blood work done, just waiting on our insurance. Having big problems with it. It didn't go through yet...grrr! I called and spoke with the Ins. co last week a few times and they had no record of us and couldn't find the group (the group number on our paperwork was missing 1 number) not sure what is going on. Josh's work told us to pay out of pocket and get receipts and we'd submit them. We got our enrollment form back in the mail yest. the co he works for didn't fill out their part, group name...again...grrr! I have tried to get this info from his work, but feel like we are getting the run around for some reason and this scares me. I left her a message last night saying I needed the group name (cause the ins. co can't find them under the co name for some reason) and I still am waiting to hear back from her. I want to send this out asap. I am so scared we don't have coverage. His work says we do, but I don't put a whole lot of faith in that...We Better! I am completely out of one of my meds after today and need to go pick them up and pay out of pocket. I am so frustrated with this...it should be all set and no worry of ours at all.

Oh ya, The facilitator called yest. to let me know that they received my packet. It hadn't gotten to her to look through yet, but said she'd call me again this week to go over our profile, etc...

I just called again and spoke with Josh's work, she is saying it is Josh's fault for not bringing in the billing to submit. That comes later, Hello? The ins. co isn't going to reimburse us payment till we are actually active with them. And she says she's asked him 3 times to bring in the paperwork and he never does it...again...hello. He just went to the dr on Fri. She says she will call them now and try to figure it out...we'll see.