New Update for YOU!!!

Hey out there all you blog followers!!!  I didn't realize it has been so long since my last update so I thought I would let you all know where we are and what is going on right now in this whole process. 

What we have been doing with our time is filling out lots of information for a profile.  The adoption agency that we are going through has asked us a series of questions that we had to answer and write about ourselves, our family, and our home.  We also had gather a lot of pictures of ourselves.  Pictures of us by ourselves, our house, us on vacations, our extended families, etc.  So we have got that all done now and will be sending that off tomorrow!  Once our adoption agency gets it, then they will organize it into a profile.  Then they will put our profile online and birthmothers out there can start reading our profile and try and decide if we are the right match for their baby!!!  HOW EXCITING!  That means after that profile is out there...we could be matched that very same day, 18 months from now, and/or everything in between! 

The next thing we have been doing is filling out loads and loads of paperwork for our home study.  There is a lot involved in our home study notebook.  Lots of paperwork about us, our family, our income, and every other small detail in our life.  We have to go get physicals, get a criminal check out, get finger prints taken, etc.  We have been filling out paperwork for several nights now and haven't even made a dent it feels like!  Once we finish that then we will have somebody come to our home and visit us a couple of times and they will approve or deny us as suitable to adopt!  So keep your fingers crossed!!

                                              Ha!  Thought that was funny!!

Anyways, what else is going on???  Lots of you all out there have been asking about more fundraisers and what else we have planned.  We still need to raise at least another $5,000.00.  So we definitely have some things planned!  FIRST...A very dear friend to us (Sharen Cunningham) has been very gracious to us.  She has decided to host a garage sale with the proceeds going to the adoption fund!  How sweet of her for doing that!!  It is going to be in the very first part of May (more details to come) and if ANYBODY has things that you don't use that you don't want in the way anymore...Sharen is accepting donations!  I know WE have been searching through the house and getting rid of unused things!  Dressers, dishes, clothes, etc.  So like I said...if you have stuff you want to get rid of you can always send them Sharen's way!! 

Thank you all for being so supportive in every kind of way! 

We love you!
The Nuzum's

SEVERAL UPDATES!!

Hey just wanted to keep all you informed on what's happening!!  Well first, my amazing grandmother (mema) has been so gracious to Richard and I by offering her time and talent.  She has just painted a piece of art and donated it and put it up for auction with the proceeds going toward the adoption.  The auction just ended 45 minutes ago and the ending bid was 975 dollars!!!  SO AMAZING!!!  I can't thank those that we were bidding enough.  We ESPECIALLY can't thank my mema enough.  The winner of the auction will be blessed to be able to own a piece of her artwork.  Thank you Thank you Thank You!!!

Second update is:  WE FINISHED THE PUZZLE!!!!!!!!!   It is totally complete!  Just finished up tonight!  I just can't believe all of you out there that helped make this puzzle complete.  It is a feeling I can't describe.  To feel that all of you are behind us in our adoption process is definitely something that can't be described.  We love all of you to pieces!!  Ha Ha  get it...PIECES!?!? PUZZLE!?!?  Crack my self up over here!!  :)  Alright here is a picture of the finished puzzle.  Now to get it framed! 

The above picture was taken by my mother.  It was the last two pieces of the puzzle and it was Richard and I putting in the very last pieces.

 

 

We love you all!

The Nuzum's :)