The Twilight Bark

It took over a year to get all of the paperwork and trainings done for our adoption home study.  That's mostly because our background clearance from New Mexico took over 8 months for some reason.  We were told several times that it was unusual to take so long and they weren't sure why.  For the state of California they do background checks in any other states you've lived in in the past 5 years.  Well now that it's almost been 5 years since we lived in NM, of course it came back : )  Sometimes it felt like it'd never come... : /  but we've gotten used to waiting...

Anyway, now that it came back last week, we're completely 100% done and approved for adoption!  We have an official, legal home study!!  We were thrilled to find out last Friday!  Our case worker was out last Friday afternoon, though, so it wasn't "in the computer" yet... of course... that's how it would go for us... : )  It took until Tuesday afternoon, but then our profile was finally up!!  You can view it here:

Will and Ashley's adoption profile!

We've looked forward to and talked about when we could finally share our profile, but like I said, it just seemed like one of those distant things... like when you're in high school and you just can't imagine yourself in college or getting married or anything like that... just too hard to wrap your head around!  (or was that just me? ha : )

Anyway, we've spent the last few days trying to share with all our family and friends in many different ways.  We have been absolutely overwhelmed with all the support!  We feel so loved and supported!!  I know I said supported twice, but adoption is still a new thing for us and it feels really good to have so many people willing to back you up and help you out, even if they don't know you!  So far our profile has been shared 60 some times on facebook, we have tons of "likes", and our profile on itsaboutlove.org itself has 900 views already!!

So... I already know that I'm some special kind of Disney nerd, but it's made me think of the Twilight Bark from 101 Dalmatians... ha : )  Do you remember this?

Nobody has stolen our kids, and we're not looking for puppies, but we might take 15 kids if we could find them.... : )  ok, we might not be ready for that quite yet...

BUT, like so many were willing to jump right in and help them find their kids and spread the word, I feel like every time someone shares it on facebook, or wherever now we're branching out across the country and into all sorts of social and familial circles.  How exciting!!!  THANK YOU!!!!!!!! : )

Again, it's still uncharted territory for us, but WE ARE SO EXCITED to finally be to the "real waiting"!!  We are excited to have our kids come to our family at the right time.  We know that Heavenly Father is over all and all promised blessings will be fulfilled!  Neither of us grew up expecting this path, but we are happy for all the blessings of adoption that will come to us, our kids, our birth families, and everyone else involved!

Thank you, again, so much for your help and support!

woof woof : ) ha