HALELUJAH!!!!

Well, I'm just in awe right now!!!!
Yesterday August 3rd we received the call that said we had been chosen by a birth mom!!!!! I was out shopping with all the females on Josh's side of the family. We were maternity clothes shopping for Tori:) I no more than put the car in park, praise God, when my phone rang...and it was Kim from Heart to Heart telling me we were the ones picked! I was instantly in tears, and all of a sudden there were two video camera's on me...I was a mess, and I don't think I will ever want to see the footage:) I was just so overwhelmed. I mean I have spent months guarding my heart trying to keep a distance slightly because it is a continuous stream of maybe's and I think we had had like 9 no's. So you just kinda pretend it's a no, while hoping it's a yes, but more than anything wanting God's good and perfect plan, but wanting it yesterday:)

So today we are having a conference call with the birth mom. Bless her precious heart! I cannot fathom...I'm so excited to talk to her and eventually meet her. With adoption, it seems there are never 100%'s...all kinds of unexpected twists and turns and leaps and bounds of faith. This precious baby boy will be born August 17th in Utah. So if all goes well, we will be driving down on the 16th to meet the mama, and then to be there the following day at the birth. I never dreamed we would be so blessed to be able to be there from the start!!! So many of the calls we received the baby was already born!

Now sweet Hudson has been just WAITING for this day!!! I have overheard so many little conversations with his cousins...He told his cousin Chade...It sure takes a long time to get a baby...Chade says, yah, it does.:) My miscarriage was almost 2 years ago, and he just has hoped and wished since for a baby brother! So yesterday I went to Old Navy and bought 2 matching shirts...one 5T and the other the smallest they had:) which was 6-12months, but it looked tiny compared to the 5T:) Then yesterday evening we gave the bag to Hudson and told him to open it and he had to figure out what the gift was. So he opened it and guessed the smaller one to be for Chade, or Sawyer....and then we kinda helped him figure it out...and then his eyes were so adorable and big and excited, and then he got up and did the weirdest dance I have ever seen in my life:) It very well might be the cutest dance I have ever seen in my life too:) He can't wait!

So that's all for now, and I will try to keep this up to speed...

Actually I don't think I posted previously what happened with this particular call...So back up to last Wed....I had received the call that the last birth mom had chose a different family and the agent Kim told me that she would be calling me again soon because they had quite a few mom's coming due...So about an hour later I got a call from her again saying would we want to be shown to this mama. I said yes, and then she said they would be giving the profiles to her on Friday and she would have the weekend to look them over and make her decision...so then yesterday we got the call:) That's how it went.

Then I just looked and the birth is one year from the adoption seminar we went to last year when we made our commitment to adopt, and December 8th last year is when I drove to the agency and gave them the application, with the check:) Josh filled out the application in August last year but wasn't ready to write the check.

Every step has been a leap of faith, and God has faithfully provided. At the start of this process financially we did not even come close to having the amount we will be needing in a couple weeks....but like I said the Lord has been sooooo faithful. We have just stepped out and watched Him provide it all, and in two weeks...God has provided for it and I'm just simply in awe.