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Today is a BIG day......we are almost exactly 4 weeks from the date we started the homestudy paperwork process and we have it all completed!  That is the quickest amount of time they tell you it could take - yay us! ;) This past week we completed our 12hrs of adoption class work, our auto-biographies and our fire inspection was this morning (we passed!!).  I am mailing the finshed packet first thing tomorrow morning and then we will wait for our homestudy interviews to start....whew! We have started collecting things for our little girl.  We don't know how old she will be exactly, but figure that she can grow into things as long as we stick with the 18month and up clothing.  Typically, the little girls from China are still in 18month to 2t clothing even at 3 years old.  She is going to be a peanut! :) The boys love going to yardsales on the weekends after morning soccer games and they are always pointing out things that they think their "little sister" will...

What an incredible weekend with giant steps in the right direction this has been! Saturday we took our Pediatric/Adult CPR and First Aid class as required and got our certification. It was a 3 hour class and went by really fast. I had to joke with Derek that he was the "star student" ...always asking the good questions and volunteering to demonstrate things for the instructor. Helped the class go by faster since I really like watching him - LOL :) Thanks so much to Carmen Hortenberry who watched the boys for us so we could go do this. What a treasure the Hortenberry family is to us! After church on Sunday we decided to tackle moving the rooms around at the house so we can get "our little sister's room" (as the boys say) ready before the home study. This is somewhat tricky for us now since we have a truly 3 bedroom ranch home and will have 4 children! Max and Parker don't want their own bedrooms and insist on sharing one so that is a huge help, but still leav...