Daddy and Dayne go to Louisville!

 Today Daddy and Dayne headed to Louisville for the fingerprint appointment!  This should be the last time any of us have to fingerprint!!  All went smooth!!!  They had a nice lunch at Ri Ra Louisville!  Dayne favorite spot to eat!  

Love our Paci Baby!!

Hanging with friends in the nursery!

 

Happy Mother's Day

 Today is Mother's Day and Momma got the best gift EVER!!  Picture and Video of our sweet girl!!  She is pretty smart for 4 months old---being able to make that sign :)

Sweet girl!!

Surprise Skype!

Got an email this morning asking us if we want to skype tonight!!  REALLY!!!  OF COURSE!!!  YAY!!  
We decided to start reading Kerrigan a book when we skype--so she is hearing Momma's voice alot of the time we are skyping, PLUS Ava then gets to pick a book she wants to read to her sister!  Tonight we picked one of Ava's all time favorites "Are You My Mother?"  Ava loved it and Kerrigan seemed quite excited too :)

 

 

 

Playing with toys!!

Sweet Face!

Look at that Hair!!! BEAUTIFUL!

Relax God's got THIS!!

 Well woke up this morning to new pictures and videos!  That makes for a great day!!!  BUT then I got an email from Trena saying the homestudy date for Kerrigan has been moved to May 21st at 1000.  AND the birth family's homestudy is scheduled at His Hands the same day at 130.  THIS is so awesome!!  We now know when the birth family's homestudy is AND it's at His Hands, so they will be sure that everyone shows up for the homestudy as planned :)  
We do know that after the homestudy the social worker has 1 month to write the homestudy! (we can pray she writes faster)  Then the judge will give us a court date within 2 weeks!  THEN the final decree is said to come "quickly"!!  
I have to admit I went to bed a little sad last night!   Everything still seemed so far away!!  And Uncertain!  BUT I need to learn to relax and realize God's got THIS!!  He is working in our favor!  Please keep the prayers coming :)

Blessed!

That's our girl!

Progress!

 Tonight we heard from Trena!  We have a date for Kerrigan's home study to be done.  Its May 24th.  That's longer than we had hoped but it is progress!  We then have to wait for the birth family to have their homestudy.....don't know when that is.  But we will sleep tonight knowing God is taking care of things!  Our timing isn't HIS!  But HIS is perfect!  We are now one step closer:)

Sleeping angel!

Louisville Trip!

Today Keagan, Ava and Momma went to Louisville to get Momma and Keagan's fingerprints redone!  Our fingerprints expire July 6, 2012 and we don't want any hold ups so we are redoing them early!!    Our scheduled appointment was May 16th, but we really weren't able to go that day!  Ava has a field trip and Momma is going too and Keagan has graduation practice.  Other people have told us they went early and it wasn't a big deal, so we thought we would try it!    We knew we were taking a chance driving 3 hours to go, but prayed it would work!  WELL it DID!!!  The guy looked at us and said "you drove all the way from Illinois and don't know IF i'm going to do these?"  I said well yes we thought we would take a chance and if you wont I guess we drove here for dinner in Louisville!  He says "well I'm going to do you a favor and I'm going to do this, BUT the others in your household will have to keep the scheduled appointment."  I was thinking HMMMMM will he really know.....Tim and Dayne were planning on going next Monday (they couldn't go with us today---its hard to get 4 adults off work the same time)  Maybe I smiled then, because he looked at me and said "I will know if they come.  I know your address and I WILL remember and I WILL turn them away!"  LOL!!   SOOO Tim and Dayne are going to our SCHEDULED appointment on May 16th LOL!!!  I will say that the place wasn't busy.  The only thing in the waiting room was 50 empty chairs.   The ONLY other person there was the fingerprint guy! HA!!  Guess we over worked him today!  But Im thankful he did me a FAVOR!!   We were at the Federal Building a total of 20 minutes!  Thats with finding parking, paying for parking, finding our room, getting a lecture from the guy AND actually fingerprinting!!   NOW we should be done with fingerprintiing!!!!!  That is unless God tells us we are adopting again in the future!!  BUT we should be done to get Kerrigan home!!

When we left Keagan had scoped out a Bass Pro Shop that was fairly close!  So we headed there!!  It was an amazing Bass Pro Shop!  Redneck Heaven!!  We spent about 2 hours there!!  They had waterfalls, aquariums, and FUDGE!!

We then went to Joe's Crab Shack and ate supper by the river!!  It was quite yummy and the view was awesome!!!

We had a fun productive day!!!  Momma loved spending the day with Keagan and Ava!!

One STEP closer to our BABY!!

Smiling outside the Federal Building!

                

 

 

 

 

Avie and Keagie!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ready to be a big sister!

 

 

Redneck Heaven!!

We loved it here!!

Worth it ALL!!! Love this girl!

Skype Success!!

 Tonight we got to Skype with Kerrigan and Aunt Ashleigh!!  As soon as we picked up the call Kerrigan started smiling and getting excited!!  She acted as if she had waited all night to see us!  She then got sleepy and fell fast asleep on Aunt Ashleigh! We got to watch her little eyes get heavier and heavier until she was sound asleep!  Had Momma in tears!  It was the sweetest thing EVER!!!  

Smiley Happy girl!

Sweet Sleepy girl!!!

Doesn't get any sweeter!