Photos of New Home

Here are the pictures of our new home. My favorite room is the laundry room. It is nice that it does not take me two cycles to dry my clothes now. I really wish you could see the view from our couch. It is wonderful to see the hills of Tennessee. We had a wonderful weekend. We had my mother's 60th surprise birthday party on Sunday. She had fun. The grand kids had fun playing in the creek at the park. Hannah at first did not want to get into the water but eventually got to where she did not want to get out. Hannah enjoyed her time with all of her family. I did not have batteries for my camera so I did not get pictures of the party.

We heard from Bethany Christian Services today. We had applied for a grant that they give to families adopting children with special needs. We were given a $5000.00 grant. God has really blessed us with this adoption. I am still praying and believing I will be going to get Ethan in July or early August.

WE ARE IN

We have finally moved into our new home. Once we get everything unpacked I will take some pictures and post them. We can sit on our patio and watch the sun rise. We can sit on the front porch and watch the sun sit. We no longer hear the bouncing of a basketball outside of our window at night while trying to sleep. I had my first ride into work. It took about 45 minutes. I got to enjoy all the nice open spaces. If any of you are ever in the area you can come stay. We have an extra room above the garage.

Praise to God Almighty

I know this is the third post for me tonight. I had to post this but wanted to post it separately. Today Greg and I went house hunting again (while Hannah was at daycare). We looked at about 10 houses. We saw some that were definite NOs. We started out with a 7 went to a 0 then our second to the last was the 10. Greg almost started crying as we were pulling into the drive. I talk about this one more in a minute.

While we were looking at our third house Greg got a call from our social worker. We had applied for a grant from Shaohannah's Hope for Ethan' adoption. We have been waiting to hear from them to see if we qualified for anything. Well, our social worker got the letter in the mail and had to call us while we were out to let us know. We were given a grant. Praise God!!!! We still have about $5,000 more that we have to get. We are praying for another grant from our adoption agency's fund for special needs adoptions.

Ok, back to the house hunting. We looked in three different counties today for our house. We got to the second to the last house and knew that was our house. It has everything that we want. It is in a country setting. It has 1.62 acres of land. The house sits just about in the middle of the lot. It has about 1975 sq feet one level. This house is so well kept. We made an offer and we have a verbal agreement with the owners. We are just waiting for them to get back into town to sign the papers. We will be moving sometime in May. Gwen, the house is in Sumner county. Unfortunately we will not be closer to you all but farther away. We can still get together though. Oh, I almost forgot. There is a house two doors down that has horses. Hannah will be so happy. Their property actually runs behind this property.

I have to give God the praise for this. When we pulled up and went in even our agent thought it was a great house. He even talked about what a great price it was. Greg was kind of worried that they would not accept our offer or that they would have gotten another offer before we got ours in. They both were talking as we left that it had not been on the market long so it would probably go fast. I was looking at the stats sheet and saw that it had been on the market for 81 days. Greg said that he could not understand why it had not sold yet. I told him that God knew that this was the house that He had for us and He was saving it for us. I am so thankful for all of the things that God has been doing for us lately. He matched us with our son very quickly. He has given me a promotion at work. He has given us a grant for our adoption, and He has lead us to our future home. He is such an awesome God. I am overwelmed when I think about how much He loves me. Everyday I am learning more and more just how much that is. I know that He really wants only the best for His children. I love you God!

Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD. "Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future."