There's no place like home!

Well, we made it home, finally. Lillian is doing great, she in the cradle that her great uncle Ray made for Kaitlyn and Mariah. I am listen to her through the monitor right now and it's really hard to not put down the computer and go get her. Dave tells me that I just need to let her rest. I'm trying, but I don't think it will last long. Well, we just wanted to let you know that we made it home okay...Thank you for all of your support and prayers.

Dave & Shana

Lillian and her Mommy!!

Lillian and her Daddy

He's a natural!!!!

New LIFE!!!!!!!

At approximately 1:15 am on March 30, 2007 Lillian Grace came into our lives. We are in the hospital room with our new baby as I type this and all is going well! Right now it is about 3:00 am and we are pretty wiped out. I can't imagine what the birth mother is feeling, she was in labor for 13 hours! Because of the late delivery we won't actually meet her until tomorrow sometime. The agency has been great as well as the hospital and the nurses. We did get to meet a couple of the birth mother's friends when we got to the hospital and they were very nice and were giving us updates on the labor and giving the birth mother updates on our excitement. When we arrived at the hospital they said everything was going at a normal rate and it wouldn't be too long until delivery, then everything seemed to stop. We did keep getting good news on the condition of the birth mother and the baby during the delivery. If all goes well we may have a chance to go home on Saturday, but we might not be able to do the paperwork with the agency until Monday. Either way we are now parents of a beautiful baby girl and will make it home some time. Again, just want to let you all know how much we appreciate the love and prayers sent our way, this all seems to good to be true. Please leave us comments if you get the chance, you just have to leave them as annonymous and sign your name at the bottom. I am sure with our new arrival that this little blog will be seeing a lot more action (at least on our part) so keep checking back to see what is going on with our family.

Dave & Shana

Here it is!!!!

The phone call came! The birth mother is in labor. Shana is on her way home and we are heading out to Wichita!! Keep praying for us please! More updates to follow, we are taking the laptop with us so I will see if we can use it there and post for everyone.

Are you kidding me? Bed rest?

So, we are painting the babies room and Shana tells me she needs bed rest? I thought you only needed that when you were pregnant! She says she is having sympathy pains. Actually not alot new going on, just trying to get everything as ready as we can. I should go back to painting now (actually Shana has done alot of it). Just a note to all of those who love me, I love you all too. You probably won't ever hear from me again, at least not after Shana sees this!

Our precious Lillian

Here's her first picture...Isn't she adorable!!!!

Cloud Nine!!!!

Well, here we are again. Monday night we wrote an additional letter to the birthmother and the agency gave it to her Tuesday. We got a call today and she read the new letter, looked over our book again and talked at length with the adoption agent. She has now choosen us to be the adoptive parent of her baby!!! I said on Monday there was still a chance and it came through! If everything else goes according to plan there shouldn't be any other glitches. Keep checking back for progress reports!!

Thanks to everyone for all of your support!!

Dave & Shana

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Hopes dashed...temporarily

Well, we might have gotten our hopes up a little too much. Shana got the call this morning and the birthmother decided not to accept us as adoptive parents. Today has been a tough one for both of us but we are trying to find the silver lining. There is still a chance this case will work out for us and we are still holding out hope for that. We just want to let everyone know we do appreciate all of the thoughts and prayers coming our way. Keep checking back in on us for all the news, good or bad.

Dave & Shana

HOME STUDY!

Well today is the home part of the home study. I am nervous, but the social workers seems really nice, I like her alot so I'm pretty sure it will be okay....I'll post more when it's over and let you all know how it goes.....Well, the home study just got over, and it was GREAT!!! The social worker is awesome and she said that we have nothing to worry about. I am so excited...in just about a month we will have a beautiful baby girl...We got the sonogram pictures today of the baby so I'll post those at some point

Wow this is fast...

Last week we sent in an application to an adoption agency...well Thursday March 15th we found out that they had an unmatched situation. This woman is pregnant with a baby girl, and she is due........................APRIL 15TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One month away...so on Friday March 16th, we told the agency that we wanted to go through with the adoption. We will find out for sure on Monday March 19th if the birth mother likes us. The agent and social worker doesn't see that to be a problem. so the mother looked over all of our stuff on Friday, so on Monday...there will be a new post letting you all know her decision...So keep looking...

Update

Well, it's been a while....Just about a year actually. We really have not had much happen in the past year to write about. I (shana) have switched jobs AGAIN. I'm back at Cottonwood, where I worked before I moved to Manhattan, so yes, I am driving back and forth EVERYDAY. I LOVE that place. We finally got the house painted, inside and out, we got our shower finished...That was the best part of the year because we had been taking baths for almost a year. Tomorrow Dave and I are turning in our application for adoption. We are very excited about our decision to adopt and can't wait to have a new family member. If we get a boy his name is going to be Payton, but we can't decide on a middle name, what do you think? I like Lewis, or David...Dave doesn't know, but he doesn't like Lewis...I think Payton Lewis sounds great together. Now, we can't decide on a girls name. I like Emma Violet or Analise Ryan, or even Analise Violet. Dave doesn't really like the name Analise, Ryan, or Violet...What does he know though right...Any suggestions on the names? I wish naming your child was as easy as naming your dog. Well, we'll try to keep this updated so you all know what's going on in our life...(as if you even care) :)