Halloween Fun, yes I know it is almost Thanksgiving!

Camden had a blast during the Halloween season, here are a few pictures of our adventures!

At the pumpkin patch on the moon bounce

Riding the train ride.

A little train that he could crawl through. He is obsessed with trains!

We are taking the Amtrak to my sister's for Thanksgiving.

I think he is going to love it!

Just stinking cute!

I am the cutest elephant ever!

Russian Recipes

Our church has an adoption network where all the people who are doing international adoptions get together once a month and network. Our next meeting (12/2/10) we are having a Christmas potluck dinner. We are suppose to bring a traditional dish from our child's country. As a severely picky eater, I do not venture out of American Cultural foods much. I don't believe I have ever had a true Russian Dish. Can you help??

First I need suggestions for Russian dishes!
Second, if you have a good recipe for it, will you please send it! My email is ddenson@kc.rr.com if it is a detailed recipe.
Third, pray that it turns out well!!

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling....

Well this was a good week for our agency, three accepted referrals/first trip invitations. There are only 3 more families that are currently registered in regions that are awaiting first trip invitations. They are in regions that only give blind referrals. Hopefully when they get them they are good referrals and they are accepted. We found out this week that we are #9 of families that are waiting on girls that are not registered in a region. Praying that it moves right along like it has been.

More Positive News

We got an email today stating that we could have our region assignment and/or referral in a "few months"! In my mind a few is 2, but lets give it 4 just in case. Please, oh please, oh please!
Denise

Short and Sweet

Wahoo, two more referrals were given this week. Now we are two closer to getting our region assignment and referral. YEAH!

Shuffling our feet along

I am thankful that we get emails every week so that we know the process of our adoption in reference to others, for example there have been 3 court dates in the last 3 weeks! Yeah!!! But then there is discouraging news, families having a referral for 4 weeks but not accepting or rejecting yet, that is a long time. Or taking 5 months to complete your Dossier 2, again that just seems like a really long time to me. If it was me I would be busting my butt to get our Dossier 2 done. I plan on having 90% of it done before we go on trip 1 and then take care of the medicals and such when we get back, etc. But, we are slowly but surely getting there. I pray our day comes soon!

Funded!!!

Our referral funds anyway. Back in July or August I stated that we needed around $5000 more for our referral fee, well we have hit that mark! Mostly through the hard work of my husband. He has been working his tail off, and losing weight in the process. :-) Now our next goal, trip 1 costs. We are estimating around $5,000 for that cost also. This might take us a little longer to reach because the new cadets have graduated from the fire academy and overtime is over for Randy, so now it is just slowly grinding away dollar by dollar. We still have a grant application out there that hopefully we might be rewarded, but we won't find out until December. We have 3 months before we have to start updating documents, no fun there and 4 months till we have to update our home study. Hard to believe we are almost 9 months into this process.

Please pray that we get this grant, it would be an answered prayer for so many reasons!!!
Also, Camden's new room is almost done so pictures will be up very soon!

For now,
Randy, Denise, and Camden