We are back!!!!!! We had a great vacation and Mt Bachelor lots of snowboarding and really great snow.The girls did so good. It was funny I think Shane and I must have talked about taking Brayden snowboarding a hundred times. So anyway back to the process...... Turns out a vacation was just what I needed to get things finished up. I mailed all of our homestudy paperwork today!!!! Well almost all of it my doggies vet appt isnt until next Thursday after that I will be all done :) whoooaaaaaa!!!!!!! The best part is the next step is doing all the dossier paperwork and im almost all done with that also. So as soon as the criminal checks come back from the FBI and state we will be getting a home inspection. scary!!!! but im starting to really think we just might survive this process. :)

Well today the girls had there physicals! they had to get shots :( I dont think they were to excited about that but they were both brave. So now just my doggies have to go to the doctor and all the Mustards will have signed proof that we are healthy enough to adopt! :) I got an email today that they recieved the first referral letter Thank you Aunt Heidi!!! Everyone else if your reading get a move on LOL!!! just kidding give us nice referrals......Really im the one who needs to get a move on the 51 page questioner about my whole life and everythought is haunting me every night when I try to sleep. I am almost done it just takes a really long time plus we have a million hours of online classes. I was talking with my mother in law about all this stuff we have to do and we decided people should have to do this stuff before having babies. could you imagine how many people that have kids now (that shouldnt) would never become parents. If there was only a way!! Anyways I am going to work on my daunting tasks of answering endless questions about myself. keep your fingers crossed for our FBI and state checks coming back quick!!

So the paperwork is acutally coming along pretty well I think. We did the medical stuff today easy as pie!!! And here we were worried about it..... So now we are just finishing all the edjucation stuff and of course the 51 page each personal profiles! Lets just all keep the fingers crossed that are fbi and state criminal checks come back quickly. Soon we will be finishing up and the dossier seems like it should be a pretty easy thing compared to doing the homestudy so wooohoooo!!!!! Starting to think we will be done this year im think 2010 is a great bringing home baby boy Brayden year!!!!

Today we had our homestudy phone call, it was great. I feel alot better already. We went and got fingerprints and criminal record reports we made dr appts and I got alot of stuff organized. So if any of you reading are responsible for refrences look out!!! lol.....Im actually starting to belive that this is all gonna get done and it will all work out. So as long as the people that review the homestudy dont decide we are a bunch of nuts im thinking it wont be long befor my little Brayden will be home with his new family.

So we have our homestudy and dossier paperwork I mean giant binders of paperwork. OMG!!!! The first time I looked through them I had a panic attack. There is alot of stuff in these things. I talked with the lady who will be helping us through the dossier process and she made me feel a little better. I at least understand kinda what im supposed to do. From what I can make of it I have to do every criminal record check known to man kind and get them notorized. Thats my first mission anyways. So im thinking I have some major late nights ahead and some stressful days. Tommorow I have a phone appt with the home study lady, hopefully she will help me understand what is what a little better. Oh well I know in the end all this crazy stuff will be worth it when we bring our sweet little baby Brayden home :) cant wait cant wait!!!!! Thats all for now I will let you know how the next phone call goes.

Just a few family pictures to spruce the blog up a bit!! oh yeah I think we are officially going with
Brayden Thomas Mustard!!!!!

we cant wait to take little Brayden to all our favorite places!!!

best auntie and cousins this little guy could ever ask for!!!

anxious mommy and daddy!!!

do you think he can handle these two crazy big sisters!!

big sister to be!!!! and daddy!

We got a phone call today from our agency they have all our paperwork! So hopefully friday or monday we will be getting all of our paperwork for the dossier and homestudy. I have a phone call set up for monday at 2:00 with the lady that will be assiting us with the dossier. I am getting so excited everytime I see a baby I go into an hour long day dream about picking up my little guy for the first time. Ill keep you posted as soon as I get all the new paper work and do the phone call.

So im back!!! after a little holiday break. We are in full force getting things going. Today I sent off the giant chunk of money and all of our notorized paperwork. scary!!!!! Good thing im so excited otherwise I would be having a stroke... lol! Now we are waiting for our next packet of goodies. The dossier paperwork and homestudy will be next. We have been really terrified about the homestudy, however we met with some people who recently brought home there beutiful little girl from China and they said the homestudy is a peice of cake. I really hope thats true... I will keep you posted with all the latest as it happens