Last Class and Final Walkthrough

I can't believe we are finally here! We did it, we have made it to the final class! Tonite we attend our final training class, which will have guest speakers and a potluck. Its so very exciting to think that we have made it to the end. Although it has only been 10 weeks, it feels like we have been waiting for this forever. I guess in a way we have.

Friday we meet with our HomeStudy lady and do our final walkthrough and we sign all of our paperwork. After that we just have to wait for our foster liscensing. Matt and I leave for vacation soon, so when we get back we should be ready to go and hopefully be inviting some kiddos into our home.

We cant not thank you all enough for your prayers and support! This has been such a whirlwind and we feel so blessed to be starting this journey! God Bless You All! Will still update you all when I can!
--Dana

Rooms are done!!!

Let me tell you all, its been a long process coming but the kids rooms are sanded, painted, cleaned, and decorated!! Wooohoo!! Its been so much work and we are so tired but so excited! I took pictures as promised. Our old office room was the last to get completely finished, so without further adu....

 The first picture is of the Bed my friend Tonia gave us. That's also the new bedding we bought. We figure once we know they will be with us for a bit, we can take them to pick out fun kids bedding. The next picture is the dresser, I know oooohhh exciting. I wanted to sand it and paint it and put new hardware on but the hubby said no. It was his as a little kid. So I understand the attachment.

These next 2 pictures are the cube bookshelf I put together and I got a little closer so you can see the artwork I hung up for the room. I found the totally cute pictures online, printed them off and got cute pictures frames for cheap at target.

These next pictures start room number 2, or what like we to refer to as the old old office. Cause when we first moved in this was our original office. The first picture is of the crib I found at a garage sale for $15.00! Yeah I know it was a huge steal. The blanket hanging on the crib Matt picked out cause it has a monkey on it. Matt loves monkeys! The other bed is my old bed with new bedding we picked out to go in the room. Only one of these will be remaining in the room. It all depends on if we get a baby or not.

In the next two pictures you see the other cube shelf I built. I love them they are so cute! I really wanted to male sure to have a place to put books and toys. Books are so important to me that I already have some on the shelves. The last picture is the dresser I pained for the room.

I hope you all enjoy the pictures. Matt and I are super excited, after tomorrows class there are only 2 left. We are done and excited and ready to move forward. Luv ya all!!! God Bless!! 

We are over 1/2 way done!!!

Sorry I haven't written in over a month. We have been so busy with foster classes and getting the house ready. Matt and I celebrated our 4 year dateaversary. LOL, its way July 3rd which was the day we had our first date. Its so wonderful that he remembers it and is so romantic. I made him the cutest card with a turtle on it.

So classes are over 1/2 way done, we literally just finished number 6 and our now only 4 classes away till we are done. We finished our home study meetings and our wonderful home study writer has already turned it in for review. We are running way ahead and are so excited. She told us that she wishes we could teach a class to other families on how to get stuff done and be prepared. LOL, she thinks I am super organized. Which I guess I am more organized now then I used to be. You have to be super organized when you are getting ready to take in other peoples kids.

The house has taken the most change and work. We closed in one wall, opened another and painted everything. I have pictures to share. The picture on the left, is where we are closing in the **bonus room** from one of the bedrooms. Picture in middle in the whole we cut through to our room, so that this will be the new office. And the picture of the right is the new closet/sheet rocked walls in the office. We now only have one room in the house that still has paneling up.

We had carpet put down last Monday and we also have painted the walls. The walls in the kids rooms are the turquoise(the color we had painted office) and an orange. We found an awesome dresser at an antique mall that I painted and we put new hardware on for one room. I think it turned out super cute. We found bedding for each of the rooms and I think the hardest part was picking out bedding for a baby crib. We decided since we may never get to use it and the stuff is so expensive to just do cute sheets and an adorable blanket with a monkey on it. Cause well Matt loves monkeys!

My sister came over and we got the crib and bed set up in one room and we will be picking up the other bad hopefully this week. So excited to be so close to being done. That is pretty much the last thing we need to do. I will post the finished room pictures in the next few days I hope. Here is a preview of one of the rooms(Aleasa thinks the room is for her to come stay in when she visits).

I can't believe in little over a month we will have kids in our home and will be moving towards God's plan of our forever family! He is so amazing!!! Luv ya all!