Prayers needed ASAP!

Ok,
So we are officially going to loose our minds!!!!!!!!!! Everything has been approved with the house and we should be able to close by like Thursday EXCEPT one little thing, which we just found out……………………………………….
The underwriter is saying that the Roof Has 2 be REPLACED before closing. Ugggggggggg
R U kidding me????????? We already had the roof looked at and have arranged to get it repaired. The roofing contractor ((ya know, the one who is an expert on roofs!!!!)) said that it just needed repairing and not replacing. But, because the first appraiser ((who isn’t a roofing expert)) said it needed to be replaced. The underwriter is sticking with his opinion.
I understand that they want to be very careful and all but, come on!!!!!!!!!! I am soooooo over the whole house thing and it will be a very long while before we ever buy another one.
In one way, I still hold ((the crazy lady)) responsible for ALLLLLLL of this!!!!!!! We were supposed to be in her house wayyyyy back in March. That is why we started our adoption process back then. Now, we are down to the wire and stand a chance on loosing our whole Home Study process.
I guess the flip side is we will have a new roof and added security. Prayers needed thanks!!!!

Just talking

Ok, well, we should be having our home visit (which is the last stage in our home study) around the 28th. Other than that, we are just enjoying the summer with our chickey-doos. ((that means our kids for those of you who don’t speak Sabrina language)) In MAPP class, they tell ya to stay away from the photo listings till you have your home study ready to send out and I now know why. It is pure torture to look at all those sweet little punkins and know that you don’t have room for all of them. I make a wonderful boy mom and would love another one of those but……. When I see the round little Asian girls or this one I saw earlier that was too cute with round cheeks, red hair and tons of freckles. Oh my goodness! I really, really wish I could just run down here to Target and pick one off the shelf. Welllllll, maybe not just one :)~
I will go for now and wish whoever reads this a good night!

Best pic of the week!!

Class info

So, still waiting on the keys to the house and still packing. I had a great birthday. Larry and the boys threw me a surprise party. It was GREAT. I have spoken to some of the other couples in our adoption class and some of them have already started getting matches and some have already started the adoption process on a child. Others are still waiting and 1 other is like us and hasn’t had the home visit yet. I think it is so Awesome to see how each family is different. There were 3 couples in our class that have never had children before and I pray that they get matched first. How wonderful it will be, especially for them. PS. Looking at photo listings is not only addicting but it will drive you mad! I just want to hug and squeeze all of them.

Update and 40th & 30th Birthdays

Ok, so we are still waiting to get the house keys and start painting so that we can move in. We are really hoping for next weekend but, it might be mid next week.

A wonderfully nice lady with our home study service just called to see when we would be ready for the visit and seemed ok with maybe having to wait till Aug. 1st. I explained the situation to her and she said that was all just fine.
I would really like to get all the bed rooms painted and fix up the front of the house a little ((as in, clear the little bit of brush and paint the trim)) before she comes. I realize that I might be trying to fit a watermelon into an apple by trying to do too much, but I really want it to be nice. The house isn’t in bad shape its just a little out dated. The down stairs has been remodeled over time, but when you hit the top of the stairs, you walk into the Seventies ((literally)). LET ME JUST TELL YA, if we could be rejected as adoptive parents because of really funky colored, old SHAG carpet, it would be all over for us!!
I LOVE the history in the house and I even love the bright colors but I am so happy that the Green and Blue tubs and showers will be going when we remodel. J
So, today is my ((Sabrina’s)) 30th birthday and I am not happy about it one little bit. I don’t feel 30 and I guess that is what counts. Either way, my family is making sure I have a GREAT day and I know that is what really counts!!
Larry's 40th & Sabrina's 30th Birthday>>>>>

 

Packing for the Move!!!

First time on a bike without training wheels!!

So, we are packing for the Big Move to the new house and the boys are sooooo excited. The new house is a big 2 story 4br 3ba that sits on 2.5 acres that is fully fenced. Jobe is doing his room in Sports and Cody is doing his in (Space, Robots & Rocket ships). They have had so much fun picking out all the new stuff for their rooms and deciding how we are going to paint them. The nursery is still in the discussion stage. We have a white armoire and crib but haven’t decided on any kind of bedding set to determine the colors. I am not for sure that we are going to do it in anything particular yet being that we don’t know if we are going to get 1 or 2 children, a girl and boy or just 1girl so on and so forth. We have said approximately under the age of 2 and they might want to pick out their own stuff. We have gotten all the safety stuff for the doors, cabinets and outlets in preparation for the home visit and I think we are pretty much ready.

Cody rode a bike without training wheels for the first time this weekend!

We hope you had a GREAT 4th of July weekend!!
I am attaching some pics from ours.

Past Due Update on us

Ok, so we haven’t put anything on here since we started MAPP classes but, I think we were in limbo about weather it was really going to happen or not seeing as we didn’t have a house yet.

Well, we are now for sure moving and are all too excited!! We completed our MAPP class back in June and not only was it eye opening but we met the nicest people there. The Home Study service has agreed to wait and do our home visit just before Aug. 1st so that we can get moved in and paint. I think we are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel and it is gorgeous. We are deff. leaning more toward domestic adoption being that it is cheaper but, Sabrina's longing for an Asian little girl is till there.

During the MAPP classes, we decided to open ourselves up to a possible sibling group. The funny thing is that I would have a million more if I could but always thought the idea of adding more than 1 more to our family scared Larry. But, it was him who when they asked us in class, said “oh yes, we would diffidently be open to adopting a sibling group”.
Well ok then.

The good Lord knows that with the new big house, we will have plenty of room.