It's kind of official .. we're adopting!

We are so excited to announce our plans to adopt. Presently we're preparing to adopt a baby from Taiwan. We have applied with an agency and we're moving forward with the process to have our lives evaluated to make sure that we are fit to be adoptive parents. On Saturday, Case and I have our first meeting with the agency that will be doing our homestudy. The homestudy process will take a couple of months, and then, assuming we have a positive homestudy, we will get on a waiting list for a referral of a baby. The wait for a referral will be about 12 months and then another 4 months before we travel to to take our baby back to the US.

We believe that God has lead us to start this process. Even before we had children, we had a heart to adopt. We're taking a break from trying to have more biological children to pursue it now. While we wait for the referral of our child, we will start meeting with an infertility specialist to see if he can determine why we've been miscarrying.

We will keep you updated with our status and we'll include prayer requests regarding the process.

DISNEY WORLD

We took a trip to Orlando in April with Case's family. Ella was so excited to meet Cinderella. Our little girl talks a lot, and most of the conversations leading up to our trip were about Cinderella. Well, after spending $400 on tickets for our family to get into the park for two days, we never did meet her. For $400 there should have been a Cinderella on every corner! Ella did get to go into the castle and decided that we didn't get to meet her because she was taking a nap. Thankfully we were able to wave to her during the Disney parade.

We had a lot of fun on the trip and lots of great memories.

The cousins are having a snack before riding the Dumbo ride

Although the quality of the photo isn't great, this is one of my favorite pictures from the trip. Case and Ella were ahead of us on a kiddy roller coaster. Look at Ella's little hands up in the air.



Adlai enjoying the action (It's great that you don't have to pay for a 1-year-old to enter the park.)

Ella and Madalyn with Granddaddy & Grandmother

In April, my sister Jill and her family visited us for the week. Of course, the weather was awful (as it always is when my family visits) but we hope that they'll come back again. Here's a picture of my kids with their cousin Mattea. Mattea is going to be 1 already on May 11th.