Valentines Day and Fingerprinting

Micah and I spent our 3rd Valentines Day together this year and what a memorable one it was! First I got 3 Dozen Roses Delivered to my work....2 dozen the day before Valentines Day and one dozen on Valentines Day ~ So needless to say I felt like the most special girl in the world! And the 2nd thing that made our Valentines Day so Memorable was that we got to drive up to Centerville, VA and attend our first of four Adoption Classes that we need to attend, prior to being an approved adoptive couple. It was a very appropriate way for us to spend our Valentines Evening together this year. We also got to meet 2 other great couples who are in the midst of the adoption process, so that was fun too!

One nice thing we learned from the attorney at our meeting was the importance of taking pictures and documenting each step of the process. So the next day as we headed to the Greene County Sheriff's Department to get our fingerprints done we had our camera in hand!

The deputy that was doing our fingerprinting was gracious and happy to have us take pictures! It didn't sound like that was the attitude he usually got when fingerprinting:)

As far as the latest update.....all of our reference checks are back to the agency (thanks to everyone who filled those out!) and now we are waiting for our LAST interview with our case worker and our criminal background checks to be returned so that we can be an APPROVED Adoptive Couple.

In the interim, we will be working on our letter to birth parents and composing a collage of pictures to submit to the agency, so that those who are looking for a couple to adopt their children will get to see a few clips of our life and decide if they feel their baby would fit into our family! We get more and more excited with each new week! And we are glad to get to share some of our excitement with you through our blog too! Don't forget to leave comments! We LOVE them!