Quick Update

I have been meaning to update the blog for awhile now, but with my girls in Ohio for the last 10 days, I made myself rather busy with creating the play room into the girl's room and the girl's room into the boy's room! I've also been working on giraffes like mad! :-) I'm not the only one though, I have friends and family out there sewing giraffes, others collecting fabric, and still others selling them off for us! It's definitely a village working to bring these boys home, and we are so thankful for all of them! :-)
A quick update before I head off to our next adventure...
- Our paperwork for the adoption is nearly complete, we need to get some forms notarized and then approval from our agency and then it will go in the mail to Uganda! This should all happen in the next week or so! Yes, that is incredibly fast - at least quicker than what we were expecting, so please continue to pray for us as we ride this unpredictable roller coaster, and expectantly wait upon the Lord's provision!
- We have over 600 of the puzzle pieces sponsored already! We are so incredibly humbled when we look at the names on the back of all the pieces. I can't wait to see it put together and placed on the boy's wall! It is the most tangible way for them to see who has been praying them home before we ever knew them... I love it! If you've been meaning to get your name on a puzzle piece, please still do. There are plenty left and we would love to be able to tell our boys about each person's name that we read on the back!
- As of today, we have 46 giraffes going to Uganda!! They are sewn and in the box ready to go! It has been such an incredible few weeks watching our friends and family come together in support of this idea. They are helping us move things along and get the giraffes made and ready for an orphan! It's an overwhelming task and my dining room is showing the effects.. but it is temporary. Thank you to everyone who has purchased a giraffe, the funds are certainly helping us in this process, but more importantly than that, you have provided something small that will show an orphan someone loves him/her and is praying for them - thank you for being that person in their lives!
- Some of you may know that we're planning to have a garage sale in September to raise funds for the trip to Africa... more on that to come... but if you feel so inclined and want to help with that, we would certainly appreciate any donations you would be willing to part with! We'll talk more about that when it gets closer.

Thank you all for your prayers and support! Nate and I are growing so much in this process. We are constantly learning to rely only on God and allowing Him to lead the way. He has proven himself faithful over and over again - we are blessed by a God that created this world and everything in it and yet cares about the small details of our lives! That's pretty humbling...

More soon....