Baby wanted

I wanted to update everyone on the quest Bob and I have been on to start a family. We spent the summer getting approved to adopt through LDS family services and just got approved in August. I know this is a little late but school has been busy. We started in June and had to jump through some pretty crazy hoops to just get approved. Background checks, medical exams, fire inspection, reading on adoption, very intrusive interviews, ect. We now have covers on our outlets, medicine and cleaning supplies stored up high, and fire extinguishers stored every 40 feet throughout the house. I understand why we had to do the tings we did but I don't understand why every women doesn't have to go through the same process before they are allowed to become an expecting mother! For those of you who are unfamiliar with how adoption works let me break it down for you:

1.) Submit an application for a home study and put a "down payment" on the adoption.

2.) Go through the home study, interviews and other preparations as described above.

3.) Sign the paperwork saying that you are "approved" do adopt/foster a child. At this point our profile gets published on-line for people to look at.

4.)Wait..............................The birth mothers get to choose who they place their baby with.

5.) When one has choosen us they send us a letter introducing themselves and stating that they have picked us to adopt their baby. No rights can be signed over yet.

6.) Then we wait again if they have not given birth yet until the baby is born.

7.) If all goes right we should be able to take the baby home with us from the hospital if the birth mom hasn't changed her mind.

8.) When the mother/father is ready she/he goes to the court house to sign over their rights to the child. Up until this point she can change her mind and decide to keep the baby.

9.) Then we go through another extensive home study to make sure that we and the baby are adjusting well. We also have to make sure that both the mother and father have given up rights. Sometimes the father can be tricky if he is MIA.

10.) If all that goes well then we can sign the paper work and get sealed to our beautiful baby.

Sounds crazy huh? There is also no guarantee when we will get one or if we will get one at all. It's all up to the birth mothers. Bob and I have decided we are open to any race male or female. All I want is a healthy infant. I think down the road we will be open to older children but for our first I need a baby. Here are some examples of babies I am willing to accept in no particular order:

One of the funniest things we have learned was that we are able to but both or down payment and final payment on our credit cards. Can you imagine the rewards points we would rack up with that!? Even if we have the money saved up in time I think I am going to do it on our CC so we can use the rewards points to buy diapers :-). We also found out that there are cards we can give out to friends, families and strangers that can direct them to our profile. Bob and I are planning on hanging outside Wal-mart one Saturday and pass them out to pregnant girls without wedding rings on. I'm only partially kidding about this.

So go check out or profile and spread the word to anyone thats looking to give up an extra kid or two. But more importantly, keep us in your prayers. I am not the most patient person and all this waiting might drive me crazy!!!