Happy Birthday Hudson and Whitlee

After our long day at the safari zoo we enjoyed an evening celebrating Hudson and Whitlee's birthday at a Bounce Party!  For a kid that hated slides just a few days prior Evan decided he loved them and couldn't get enough!

Whitlee loving the bounce house

Birthday Pizza

Birthday Cupcakes!

I burned way too many calories helping Evan up each slide multiple times!

It's been a while

Well I am not sure if it was the overwhelming frustration with the adoption process or the stress related to buying and selling our house (in winter no less) but I have been absent from the blogging world.




Next week Dan and I will mark the 1 year mark in our official wait. last year at this time we thought we would very close to a referral if not already, however we have been told it will be at least another year. We have been updating the homestudy and have another home visit scheduled this week with our adoption social worker.









Valarie and Jonathan have a referral and hope to travel this summer to pick up little Hudson Joon Hart Smith. He is such a cutie with wild hair. I am so excited for her and cannot wait to meet Hudson and see my baby sister as a momma!







We purchased our new home on March 22 and am totally smitten with it! we only spent a few nights there before heading to Playa del Carmen, Mexico for a much needed vacation from reality! We are so thankful for Dan's parents, Kathy and Ernie, for providing the opportunity to spend time there.

Real Quick

The craft fair is OVER, I cannot believe after so many months of preparing it is done. wish we would have done a few things differently, who knows maybe we will get to do another fair. we had a great turn out, but have tons of inventory left! I cannot wait to get the flickr site more updated and to get a better update on this blog. until then continue to check out the flickr site (the link is to the Right of the page), and I have started to use my facebook page to advertise a bit also. val and i are toying with maybe doing an etsy shop, but not sure yet.

if you have suggestions or would like to order something fabulous email me and I can get to it asap!
sisterhood2motherhood@hotmail.com

National Adoption Month..

Hey there! Val here... Tomorrow is Jonathan and my 4th completed month on "THE LIST". Things are definitley slowing down a bit in the adoption world for me as well as Laurie. I hope our agencies are giving us the maximum wait and not the expected wait.. Anyway, I found these videos on YouTube from CatholicVote. Very humbling and moving especially for National Adoption Month. I hope you enjoy as much as I did.

Finally joining Laurie on "THE LIST"

That's right folks, Jonathan and I got word last week that we are officially on the Wait List for a baby girl or boy from S. Korea!!!! So what does that mean you might ask? We have up to a year on the Wait List until a child referral and then an additional 3-6 months until travel time.

So here is the timeline thus far:

12/29/08--Application 1 Submitted
02/05/09--Application 2 Submitted (the agency tells me I got all paperwork completed in record time!) Yes, I am just that compulsive about some things!
02/07/09--Attend workshop in Little Rock
05/04/09--Home Study visit #1
05/11/09--Home Study visit #2
07/10/09--OFFICIALLY WAITING!!

In the meantime, check out the sweet ottoman I recovered to match our new chair!! My first

reupholstery project!!