Hello All,
We have meant to up date our past now for weeks. The Lord had been weaving His tapestry in bringing our precious baby to us. Through different relationships I met a wonderful foster mom named Kim. She and I are in the same support group Embrace and she had a foster child that was being moved to foster/adopt. She thought of our family and brought pictures for me to see at our meeting on May 6th. I will never forget the moment she slid the picture of her across the table. My heart just melted. I came home and told Nelson all about her and we talked to the Landon and Lincoln the next afternoon. We told them she was a little younger than we had planned. They ask to see her picture and we slid it across the table. Their exact response ooohhhhh we want her. We got permission to meet her that night. I was grinning from ear to ear the entire visit. You would have thought she had always been a part of our family. Over the next weeks we had several visits and asked to move forward with becoming her foster to adopt family.
Lily moved in with us on June 7th and the time has just flown by. She is such a blessing and is adapting to our family very well. We gave her the love name Liliana and we call her Lily. She is 15 months old and full of life. She has learned many new things in the last weeks. She is walking behind a toy, blows kisses, gives kisses, climbs off and on her horse, waves hi and bye and many more. Do I sound like a bragging mother? :) We are so in love with her and it feels like she has always been a part of our lives.
We went to court on the 19th and the all parental rights were terminated and the judge waived the 6 month wait. If everything goes well we will be able to officially adopt her on National Adoption Day, November 20th. We are over joyed and thank God for adding to our family through adoption. Once she is officially adopted we can post pictures to the blog. God is so good and we can never dream as big as He dreams for us.
We will keep you updated as we continue to go through the process. It is has been a very positive process and God has held our hand the whole way. God bless you all and feel free to ask us any questions if you feel called to adopt.
The Carters
