learning a little patience

I keep hearing people say, if you pray for patience, you will really learn a lesson... They weren't lying!

We are STILL waiting to hear back to see if we will even be allowed to proceed with the adoption. I am really REALLY hoping that it will be this week. This is the start to week 4 in the hold up! I will hopefully be able to tell you something about what is going on soon.

Meanwhile, our house is going great now that the hospital days are hopefully over. Our carpet will be put in this week, hardwood in the existing family room next week, and then we should be good to go! We also got to order our furniture this past weekend which really got me excited. I can't wait until it all comes together. I think this is better than moving into a new house. I don't have to pack anything up!

I hope everyone is doing well!

disaster...

Tuesday, was a true disaster! We were all excited because the trusses were put up on the garage Tuesday morning. After several hours of hard work, we all sat down to eat lunch. Mom and I painted all morning so we took a break to rest with the guys. After lunch, the guys went out to sheet in all 22 trusses. Mom and I got cleaned up to go furniture shopping at Green Front. As we stepped onto our new stairs by the new garage, a huge gust of wind blew through and blew over the trusses with all 3 guys trapped inside! We literally watched Ryan and the other two fall 20 feet to the ground with thousands of pounds of wood falling on top of them! Mom and I immediately ran to them, called 911 and stood in disbelief of what had just happened right in front of our eyes. Ryan had literally gotten knocked off the back, jumped 20 feet and landed on his feet... Amazing... Burke fell among the trusses to the ground and was completely caught by the wood, and God's mercy. Scott was hurt the most with a back injury and laceration/14 stitches to the eye... but again protected by God. They should have been broken or killed! What a crazy, crazy day!

So now it is time to rebuild.... it will all get done eventually!!!

Still Truckin...

Well, we still wont know for a week or more whether Russia will accept us into their program. We are praying a miracle happens! Meanwhile... at the Frey's residence, alot of construction is going on. Ryan has fully closed in the future big hang out room, and the new garage has three walls! It is all coming together so quickly! As of tomorrow I am on spring break so I plan on painting the walls of the bonus room. I cant wait for it to be finished. It will be so nice to have the extra space. We'll keep you posted!

ROAD BLOCKS STINK...

So everyone tells us that with adoptions, there are ALWAYS frustrating road blocks. I am hoping this is a road block and not a dead end... Apparently some flaws have come back with our paperwork leaving us wondering if we can proceed or not. I guess we will know in 2 weeks when we hear back! They are supposed to tell us if Russia will even accept us. PRAY THEY WILL!!!! We haven't given up hope yet!

On a much more pleasant note, I pulled in my driveway from work today and the footers have been dug out and the foundation has been poured for our massive garage! Yeah! Once we can get that done, we can begin the process of finishing our current garage so it can be a big bonus room. This should give us the space we need/want to have. Focusing on the positive...

Our True Craziness

So we decided to remodel... what are we thinking? We are going to close in the garage and make it a big bonus room/playroom/office. Then we are going to build a big 3 car garage/workshop so Ryan can have HIS playroom! This all has to be done in 3 weeks to get our paper work done so it can be sent to Russia. No Pressure! Nothing like trying to press things to the limit.

Craziness x10... Today was the first upset with this process. We got a call from Kristin, our amazing social worker that there are some issues with some paper work. We dont want any delays! Pray these kinks will work out and QUICKLY! We are ready to get rollin :0)

Can't Believe We have a Blog!

Well, here we are! Im not quite sure how we ended up with this blog, but I thought it would be a great way to keep track of our adoption journey! What an adventure we are traveling on. However hard it gets, we know moy shin (my son in Russian) will be worth the wait!