Majority of Phase 2 Finished

We've had a whirl of a past two weeks. Brian's surgery was scheduled for the 26th, so we moved PRIDE training up two weeks. We wanted to be sure the large majority of our training and all was finished before that.

In order to sign up for an earlier PRIDE training, we had to agree to driving up to Bremerton, which was close to an hour and a half each way. The drive was nice, though. We played some tunes and enjoyed our time together. Sarah Richardson, Nita Barnard and Grandma McCall volunteered to watch the girls over the six evenings we were in class. Praise the Lord! It worked out!

While the training was held by the state and we had some different beliefs about the hopefulness of the situation, PRIDE was relatively painless, and free! We met a couple couples who are very excited to bring children in their homes and we were able to plug A New Forever, the group we belong to that is absolutely amazing. (You should really check out their website. It's listed on my links section.)

My favorite thing about PRIDE was all the resources we learned about. My favorite resource was TREEHOUSE, which you'll find the link to in my links section. There's also a place I found that will give you a fire ladder and a fire extinguisher free if you're in the foster process. Bonus!

Last week, we received our letter from Youth For Christ that we could go get our fingerprints done, so I made our appointments for last Wednesday up in Federal Way. They're done digitally now, so I hear getting the results of the background check doesn't take as long as it used to. I've heard we're looking at about a month turn-around time. Fingerprinting was free. Bonus!

I also made our appointments to get our TB Tests done. Our insurance doesn't pay for TB Tests, so I checked around. Around here the cheapest place I found that would do them was at Enumclaw Medical Center. They were $18 each for Brian and me.

Since I have to have Max's (our dog's) pet vaccine records, (and we didn't have him as a puppy) I had to call Kent's Veterinary Hospital. Their records showed that Max needs his shots updated. Man! So now we'll be taking him to the vet to get his shots updated.

After that, we'll just be waiting on the fingerprint results to come back and the homestudy to be completed. While we're waiting, we'll be locating bunkbeds and dressers, and getting the house completely ready for our new kids. Yeah!

Thank you for your continued prayer. We are still asking that the processing of paperwork be smooth, that we have favor with all the people involved in the process, and that the items we need (bunkbeds and dressers) we'll come across very inexpensively or FREE! Please continue praying for our family and our marriage as we spend extra time during this time taking care of necessary details, that it would build our family up and not cause it to weaken.

We love you!