Referrals & Royals...

What can I say? Since our last post (May 8th) the referrals have been ROLLING in at CHI! 9-COUNT 'EM, 9 REFERRALS!!! We are now #20 on the overall list and in honor of being #20, I'm dedicating our new adoption # picture to one of the greatest K.C. Royals of all time: #20, Frank White! I'm certain that our "actual" number is actually much, much lower but our agency won't give us that info. It's really amazing, we spent what seemed like months in the 30's and now, within a matter of days, we have blown through the 20's like they were nothing. Things are starting to get really exciting on the adoption home-front. Maybe it's time to start looking for new closet doors for the nursery, finish painting the house and stain the deck, since I'm sure the few months between our referral and travel will be filled with shots, packing lists, travel bookings, dotting our i's and crossing our t's.

In other Hansel-news: last week my brother and I treated our dad to a Kansas City Royals game for his birthday. It has been years and years since our annual outings to the K so I thought this would be a great b-day gift for dad. We had a blast! Not only did we get some quality family time in but the Royals won, 8-1. It was great just hanging out with Dad and Ryan like the good ole days.

Until next time, have a great & safe holiday weekend and congrats to the lucky 9 who received referrals this past week!--Kris

Marriage!

Today Kris and I celebrate 7 years of marriage! I love spring and this time of year always reminds me of our wedding, because everything was in bloom, especially the spirea bushes. I had two very good friends do all the flowers, and since the spirea bushes were in full bloom they used some in the candelabras in the church with the other flowers, they were so beautiful.

This reminds me of our wedding each spring, the spirea bush!

my parents gave us this bush for our anniversary the first year we were in our home.

I will leave you with a few wedding pics! Enjoy!--Staci

this is my favorite and I loved my bouquet!

New number...

For all you number watchers out there, I was informed yesterday by Toni, that we are number 28 on the overall wait list. I am hoping there are still several families in front of us waiting on boys.

These last several months have been so discouraging with referrals so hopefully these next several months will be much better! So anyone who reads our blog please pray for Kris and I, it is so hard to be so close but feel so far away.--Staci

CHI waiting list and JBJ play list...

Just found out that we've moved up 1 more spot on the wait list. A couple that was #11 overall and #7 in line for an infant girl, just requested a child on CHI's waiting childs list. This should move us fairly close to the 20's overall. We have absolutely no idea what our "actual" number is for an infant girl 0-12 months, however. At this point it's all one big waiting and guessing game. Here's to more referrals this week. Let's keep them rolling in!

Blog Design Update: Just added a music player to our blog. Enjoy our kickin' J.B.J. play list found at the bottom our page!--Kris