Our profile book

Today, I got our profile book in the mail to review before I print final copies. Love, love, love it! We have literally been working on the book since February so it is such a relief to have it finished. I think we did a great job of portraying who we really are and hope that the birth mothers who view it feel the same way!

Here are a few of my favorite pages of the book.

The Back Cover:

A page on parenting:

A page on the kids:

How we met:

Cover page inside of book:

Cover of book:

Sharing our news!!!

Welcome family and friends! We are so excited to finally share our news with you, as is Nolan:) Thank you for walking this journey with us and keeping us in your thoughts and prayers! You can read the beginning of our adoption journey here.

First few purchases for the little one!

Because I sold or gave away a majority of our baby things, I will have to re-buy or borrow pretty much everything!! It can be a little scary buying items for a baby that you don't have yet and don't know when you will be getting but I believe God put adoption in our hearts for a reason and will stay faithful to us during this journey. Here are a few of our first purchases! I forgot how fun it is to buy baby stuff!

Adoption classes

Yesterday, Ross & I attended a full day of adoption training classes. They went over everything from prenatal drug & alcohol exposure, to trans-racial parenting, to openness. My favorite part was having the panels of people come in and talk about their stories. It was very uplifting to listen to real adoption stories and hear how positive they turned out. It was also nice spending the day with other couples who are going through the same things we are. Tomorrow is our home visit. Looking forward to having that done and getting the homestudy complete!

Pictures for our profile book

A few weeks ago Ross and I went and got our pictures taken for our profile book. We wanted a few recent pictures of us. Now that we have kids, we never take any pictures of us in them! Our photographer did an amazing job, especially since it was super cold and windy that day! We had so much fun!