One step closer!

We are officially one step closer to being a family of five!

Friday we went to Tucson for our last homestudy.  It's now in God's hands, and will be in an Arizona Judge's hands shortly! 

We are nervous and excited all at the same time :).

It's so hard waiting!

Our first homestudy is Saturday (the first of 4) and I am so nervous and excited!  I think the hardest thing about adoption is the wait.  I just want to know if sweet Manasa will get to be ours.  I know that if we get her, it will be even harder to wait for her, but at least I can start sending her photos and little goodies.  Conner has decided we need to adopt a boy, a girl, and a baby.  This is down from 3 boys and 2 girls (not including himself and Madi, which would put us up to 7 kids!), so I'll take it :).  He is pretty suck on a boy, a girl, and a baby.  I don't think he realizes the baby would be a baby, but ALSO a boy or girl, he he.  He does make a good point, though.  If we adopt a boy, a girl, and a baby, they can play in our grass.  I guess that's what it boils down to, right?  Adopting children so they can play in your grass?  Gotta love that little guy, he is quite the little thinker! 

Please keep us in your prayers this week :).

Loving Our Amtryke, a Few Funnies, and a Few Updates

The weather has been beautiful outside so we have been spending as much time as we can enjoying it.  Madilynn has been really loving her Amtryke and, in fact, loves it so much sometimes she refuses to get out of it to eat, so I have to set up a make-shift table on the chair.  If I have to put away laundry, I pop her in and push her around with me.  Because her feet cycle when I push her or she uses the hand petals, it is amazing for her circulation.  I had to take a picture because it's just too cute!  In this picture I had tried to take her out and had already taken off her shoes and unstrapped her, but I put her back in when she started breaking down, which is why her feet are undone.  Normally her feet are strapped in as well.

And a few recent funnies from our house....

#1:

Me- Madi, how old are you?

Madi- (holds up 5 fingers and shouts) 3!

Me- Madi, you are not 3, you are 2.

Madi- No!  Madi 3!

Great, she's already trying to be older than she really is! 

#2- I was roasting a chicken on the rotisserie.  I already feel morbid enough while I do this and don't enjoy.  Then you add in Madi shouting, "Mmmmm, baby chicken!  YUM!  Baby chicken!  Cute chicken!" as I do it.  After I took it out to serve, I was cutting it in pieces and Conner kept pretending to make it talk saying "Ouch!  You are cutting me!  I don't like this!".  Thanks for the help, kiddos ;). 

Updates:

- We get our grass in TOMORROW!

- Our first homestudy is in two weeks!  I guess we need 4 because we are trying for International.