Christmas with family

Christmas was great with family this year :) Even though a child would have made things so much better, we had a great time :).

We went to Travis's parents house on Christmas eve and then that evening we went to my parents. On Christmas Day we went to my grandparents house down in Hickory.

Here are a few pictures of the evening (I will add some from his parents house when I get them).


My gift from Travis (well, I picked them out a while ago)

Me and my brother, sister and parents. 

  Travis and I at my grandparents house

Update on Foster Care...

I thought I should post something since I haven't posted since October!!! I am a bad blogger :-/.

Lets see.. nothing new really.

November 19 was our last MAPP class (the classes needed for foster care) so we are officially done with that. Alice (our social worker) came out and did our homestudy, which we passed of course :). The fire marshal came out and looked at our house, which we passed as well. Travis also did his CPR/First Aid course and we turned in all our final paperwork a couple weeks ago. I figured with the holidays, it will take a while for our social worker to get everything together and sent it, which is fine. We have to have one more home visit and wait for our social worker to send it all in, and then wait some more. We were told that the wait could take up to 40 days, so we are looking like Spring before we can accept any children.

Other than that, we couldn't be more ready!!! The holidays would have been great-no-AWESOME-with a child (or 2) but God has perfect timing and He knows which perfect child will soon be in our home!!! We are so excited. So until then, just keep praying.