Hi everyone and God bless!
We sent off some of the required paperwork to the Rwandan embassy in Washington, DC on Friday. We hope to hear back within a week and if we get this first step of the approval process we can then start with the other paperwork that needs to go to the Rwandan government and the US government to seek approval to do an international adoption. We will keep you all posted as to how that goes.
We have been talking with our girls more and more about the adoption, answering their questions and talking about what it will mean to have one or two more kids in the house. While we understand that Macie and Asia Grace don't fully understand what this all means we do feel it is important to make them as much of this process as we can. To date they are both really excited about it and have been all smiles when we bring the topic up. Heidi and my biggest concerns still or at least our biggest area of anxiety is around the travel required and the potential to have to be away for up to 3 weeks to pull this off. But, we pray daily and know that GOD has placed this on our hearts for a reason and each day we become more resolved to follow GOD's will on this. With GOD all things are possible.....
Also we have been fortunate enough to get a dining room at the Red Blazer restaurant in Concord on Saturday, June 14, 2008 for our fundraising event. The event will run from 6-9 pm. Thank you to the Red Blazer! Also I was able to line up a friend of mine who just happens to the be the best magician around to be the main entertainment for the night, his name is Dave Chandler and you can check out his website at http://www.davechandlermagic.com/. You will not want to miss this guy in action, he is truly amazing! We will be holding a live and silent auction throughout the night and have already got some great donated items for the event, the biggest being TWO 2ND ROW BOX DUGOUT SEATS TO THE BOSTON REDSOX LATER THIS SUMMER! YES THESE ARE THE BEST OF THE BEST TICKETS! They are literally the 2nd row behind the dugout and should get any true Redsox fan excited!!!! We are extremely grateful for Aramark food services for donating the tickets to our fund raiser!
I will update the list of auction items as they come in so people can stat planning on what they will want to bid on, so stay tuned!
Take care everyone and god bless,
Pete
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Passports back! April 8, 2008
Who says the government works slow?! We were expecting to wait another week or so for our passports to come back but yesterday both of them came in the mail so things are rolling! We paid a little extra to get them expedited and it was well worth it. Now we have to continue to put paperwork together and fill out forms to send to the Rwandan embassy in Washington to get approved to adopt and we also have to file some paperwork with the US government as well to do an international adoption. Of course there are costs associated with both of those filings.
Heidi continues to do a great job doing a lot of the research on things with of course a lot of guidance and help from Tina. A lot of phone calls, internet research and driving around, it requires quite an effort but Heidi is really getting after it, she deserves a lot of credit. I am truly blessed to have her as my wife. We talk daily about the status of this or that and it is nice to see progress almost everyday. I don't think either of us realized how mentally and emotionally taxing this was going to be. I guess that comes with the territory when you take on something this life changing...
We have started to look into other fundraising opportunities and are looking seriously at having a silent auction at a local restaurant as an option.
This past week we opened a bank account a the local bank called the Hanson Family Adoption Fund so we can keep track of any donations we get (See bottom of blog). We also have the donate button at the bottom of this blog which goes into a Paypal account and then will be transferred to the bank account. We have been truly blessed to this point and have already recieved over $1000.00 dollars in donations. This takes a lot of stress off Heidi and me since the expenses are already starting to add up. Heidi did some research and got some pricing on flights and by all accounts it looks like we are going to be in the $2500.00 range each for our round trip flights. That does not include the extra tickets we will have to get for the boys we adopt. We continue to say a lot of prayers and have faith that GOD will provide for us in this area. Again, thanks to all of you who have contributed to this point!
Our girls (Asia Grace and Macie) are getting excited about the possibility of having more kids in the home. We talk alot about moving the bedrooms around and arranging things to accommodate the new little ones. It is all very exciting. One of the things that Heidi and I have started to prep them on is the fact that we are going to have to be away for possibly 3 weeks. Asia Grace can grasp this to a certain extent but I don't think she realizes just how long that is. Macie really has no understanding and basically thinks it is like going to the store and back..... Being gone for that long is really the biggest struggle for Heidi and I and we continue to prepare ourselves for it and pray a lot about it.
well that is it for today. Thanks again everyone and thanks for reading! Stay tuned and take care, GOD Bless!
Pete
Heidi continues to do a great job doing a lot of the research on things with of course a lot of guidance and help from Tina. A lot of phone calls, internet research and driving around, it requires quite an effort but Heidi is really getting after it, she deserves a lot of credit. I am truly blessed to have her as my wife. We talk daily about the status of this or that and it is nice to see progress almost everyday. I don't think either of us realized how mentally and emotionally taxing this was going to be. I guess that comes with the territory when you take on something this life changing...
We have started to look into other fundraising opportunities and are looking seriously at having a silent auction at a local restaurant as an option.
This past week we opened a bank account a the local bank called the Hanson Family Adoption Fund so we can keep track of any donations we get (See bottom of blog). We also have the donate button at the bottom of this blog which goes into a Paypal account and then will be transferred to the bank account. We have been truly blessed to this point and have already recieved over $1000.00 dollars in donations. This takes a lot of stress off Heidi and me since the expenses are already starting to add up. Heidi did some research and got some pricing on flights and by all accounts it looks like we are going to be in the $2500.00 range each for our round trip flights. That does not include the extra tickets we will have to get for the boys we adopt. We continue to say a lot of prayers and have faith that GOD will provide for us in this area. Again, thanks to all of you who have contributed to this point!
Our girls (Asia Grace and Macie) are getting excited about the possibility of having more kids in the home. We talk alot about moving the bedrooms around and arranging things to accommodate the new little ones. It is all very exciting. One of the things that Heidi and I have started to prep them on is the fact that we are going to have to be away for possibly 3 weeks. Asia Grace can grasp this to a certain extent but I don't think she realizes just how long that is. Macie really has no understanding and basically thinks it is like going to the store and back..... Being gone for that long is really the biggest struggle for Heidi and I and we continue to prepare ourselves for it and pray a lot about it.
well that is it for today. Thanks again everyone and thanks for reading! Stay tuned and take care, GOD Bless!
Pete
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