Waiting...

We have officially finished everything in order to be foster parents! All of our paper work is being processed and we should start receiving phone calls in February.

We finished the nursery over the weekend and added some cute decals. We added jungle decals to match the bedding and also a wonderful quote from Christopher Robin. Tyler loves Winnie the Pooh, I love the saying, and it is perfect for fostering.

We are so thankful for all of the encouragement and prayers. There is already so much love for the sweet kids we will be blessed with and we haven't even seen their precious faces yet!  We have had toys, clothes, a high chair, a car seat, a bouncy seat, and so much more given to us. Tyler and I cannot express how thankful we are for the generosity of our friends. My sister gave us a very special ornament and keepsake box today. They are both so beautiful! 

So for now, we are waiting and praying.

Busy Weekend

We have had an extended weekend but a very busy weekend! We have our second home study tomorrow and we spent the weekend preparing. We rearranged furniture, assembled the changing table, assembled the crib, and put up the baby gate! Our house is officially baby proof! Woo hoo! We have finished all of the paperwork that we have and will complete the rest tomorrow with our social worker. Our letters to the biological parents and the child are finished as well as our scrapbook page!
We are so excited for our future and for all of the children we are going to be blessed with.

We Are New!

We are new at a lot of things right now. New at blogging, new at marriage, new at becoming parents, and new to the world of foster care. We just finished week 5 of foster care classes, only 4 more to go!
We have been married for a little over 10 months and had always thought we would have kids when we had been married for about 2 years. God laid fostering on my heart and made sure I knew it was something I was meant to do. I spent a lot of time in prayer and asked a lot of questions. While driving one day, I told Tyler that I wanted to foster. He was obviously caught off guard but he is used to me just saying things out of the blue. He said he wasn't opposed but didn't feel like it was the right time. I appreciated his honesty and respected his feelings. We began to see signs every where we drove saying"Foster Parents Needed." God was continuing to show me that he had a bigger plan for us and I knew he was working on Tyler's heart. We had always discussed adoption but we didn't know when the right time would be. We attend church weekly and we opened the bulletin the following Sunday and there was an adoption workshop coming to our church! We laughed because we knew what God was up to. Tyler told me he had spent a lot of time praying and felt that he was ready to start attending foster classes. We contacted a family that had fostered and adopted children and we met with them to discuss some things. We registered for classes which were so conveniently going to be held approximately 5 miles from our house. Again, we had to laugh. This is the first time classes had been held in our county in quite some time, most were held at least 30 minutes away from us. God made it so easy for us to see his plan and to follow it!
We are trying our best to be obedient to God's plan to become as educated as we can be. Blogging is new for us but we are excited to share our story.