Happy 100th Post! And other exciting news!

First of all, I feel the need to state that this is my 100th post! Hooray!
Now that that's out of the way, I got some great news today! Our background checks are done! We got our clearances! Yesssssssssss! We are now moving onto the final phase of the the home study! Tomorrow, I'll mail out yet another check (LAME!), and once they receive it, they will assign us our social worker! I can't wait! We are so close! I'm hoping by August 1st we'll be done! But we'll see. We have to have three meetings with our social worker. And our family advocate at the agency said that depending on where the social worker is located, she may even cut it down to two! That would be awesome! But either way, we are sooooooo close! I'm in such a great mood today! I'm so happy and excited! And I'm feeling so super optimistic! I can't wait to be matched and find out who our birth parents are, what they look like, what gender our baby will be, and what our baby will look like and be like! I cannot wait to be a Momma!

Anyway, that is the big update for now! I have added a new button! Grab it and add it to your page! If you do, let me know if you have one, and I would be happy to add your button to my blog!

I hope everyone is having a great week! I know mine is off to a great start!

Just like the circus!

Sorry I've been MIA lately, my house is pretty much a 5 ring circus these days! As I've mentioned before, Brina's family is here. And then, as of Sunday night, we have another house guest! It was unexpected, but we're happy to have them here. Probably going to stay for awhile. But I'll get into that another day. Can't really go into details just yet.

In our 1.500 sq. feet townhome, we have 5 adults, 3 kids, 2 dogs, and a cat! Chaos, I tell you! But it's not been nearly as bad as I anticipated. I figured it would be unbearable. But it's not. Her kids are so well behaved, and it's fun having them all here! The Macreadys should be closing on their house on the 28th, then they'll be into their own home. And we'll be down to one guest. And life will attempt to regain some normalcy! Ha!

Other than that, I don't really have anything to report. On the adoption front, our family advocate said that she thought our profile looked great! And she really liked it! That was nice to hear. Still no word on our background checks, but it's been about a month, so I figure any time now. I'm so ready to get assigned and meet with a social worker! I'm ready to get that part done, and be home study complete! Shouldn't be too much longer, I'm hoping!

Well dearies, it's my day off. But this girl has a lot to get done. I need a haircut like whoa! I've kept putting it off because I hate finding someone new, and the trial and error process that comes with it!Wish me luck! Luckily I'm only going in for a trim, for now. My hair is getting long, I want to cut it short. But not ready to commit to that just yet. I need to find someone who does a good job on my hair first! Hehe! Alright, I'm out! I'll try not to be such a slack ass with my blogging!

We have a winner!

The give-away is officially over, and we have a winner! I jused http://www.random.org/ to select a winner, and it chose number 7! Which was Krystal! You're the big winner, Lady! Email me your address, and I will get your box filled with goodies mailed out ASAP! tiff (underscore) nichole 0 3 at hotmail dot com

Congratulations Krystal! And for everyone else, thanks for participating, maybe we'll do another give away soon!!! In the process of this one, I gained a ton of new followers! And I hope you all continue to follow our journey to parenthood!

P.s. The give away ends tonight at 9 east coast time!!! This is your last chance to enter! And if you have posted it to your blog, Twitter, or Facebook, be sure to leave a comment letting me know so that you get your extra entries!!! Winner will be announced tonight!

Some days, I am filled with such an incredible, overwhelming, indescribable love for our future baby (as opposed to a sadness for not being here yet)! Today is one of those days. I can't wait for the day that I finally get to meet my baby! And I can't wait to finally be a Mom! I have so much confidence in the fact that Kyle and I are going to be amazing parents! We have so much love built up for our child. And we have waited and wanted this for such a long time. I can't wait to finish up the home study so that we can move on to being matched! I know we still have a bit before we become parents, but we are closer than we have ever been! And that alone puts a giant smile on my face!

I love you Babycakes Cope, and we can't wait to meet you!!
All our love, Mom and Dad

Hooray! Its Friday!

Now that I have a real job again, I can go back to appreciating the weekend! When you don't work, all of the days kind of run into each other! Today the girls were fussy! I think it was because it was warmer today than it has been for the past few days. But they were giving me a run for my money! It's a good thing they're cute! Haha! This was us at the end of the day! I had them both in the chair with me to try and avoid some fussiness! It only worked for a few minutes. Haha!

Sidenote, my boobs look good in that picture! Hehe!

I have gotten so great answers on what everyone would put in their Give Away Box! If you haven't answered yet, go there now! Clickety click click a roo! Y'all have even listed quite a few of the things that I have put in my box! You have until Monday night at 9 p.m. eastern time to enter the give-away! I can't quit picking up stuff to add to the box. There's no telling what else will be added by then!

Sabrina and her family will probably be here tomorrow night. Yay! I'm so excited to see them all! Mostly the kids, but Chad and Brina too. They have been making a fairly similar trip to the one we did a few months ago. And it is a looooooong trip! They will be staying with us until they close on their house. We'll have Kyle and I, our cat and dog, Brina and Chad, their 3 kids, and their yellow lab! All in our 2 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom townhouse. It will be interesting! But never a dull moment, that's for sure!

Alright, I'm out of here! I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend! And if you haven't already, go enter to win the box!!!

Its finally time for the give away!!!!

I should have done this last night/today, but I was slacking. BUT, I'm finally here! And We hit and passed the mark of 50 followers! You know what that means! It's time for the awesome box give away! If you missed those posts, go here!  It's a box filled with some of my favorite things! The picture doesn't show everything. There are some more things that I have picked up since, and I'm sure I will continue to pick up in the next week!

So here's the deal! (One of my favorite phrases, ever!) If you want a chance to win, here are the rules and some ways that you can get more than one entry!

*You must be a follower of this blog! If you are not, now would be an excellent time to do so!

*You have to leave a comment and tell me 5 things that you would put into a give away box of your favorite things.

Now, by doing those you get one entry to win. But, if you want more, here's what you've gotta do!

*Blog/Tweet/Facebook about my give away! Linking back to here! (You'll get one entry for each one, as long as you can show where you did it.)

*If you were brought here by someone who did one of the above, tell me who sent you, and you will both get an extra entry!

*Be sure to leave a seperate comment for each thing that you do, that way I know how many entries to give each person!

The give away is going to go until Monday, June 14th 9 p.m. EST ! And then, I will announce the winner! Your box will be mailed on that Wednesday and to you, shortly thereafter!

GOOD LUCK! And I'm excited to see how will win this box!!!

I just need two more!

I'm only two people away from doing the Awesome Box give-away! Want to see preview of what is in the box?

And that's not everything! There will be a few more extra surprises in there! Including a Crochet Candy from Kim's awesome blog! She said she is a sucker for a give away, and she wanted to contribute! She is so creative and makes the cutest stuff, and takes some amazing photos! Go check her out!

The box is nothing super fantastic, but it has some fun stuff in it. And besides, who doesn't love free?!

I'm going on Wednesday to print out one copy of our profile for our agency to review. She saw the link online, but asked if she could see a hard copy. But from what she saw, she said she loved our photos!

Ooh! I also got the mobile for our crib set today! I got the bedding quite awhile ago, but the mobile was back ordered. But it showed up today! How stinkin' cute is this?! Crappy cell phone pic quality, but you get the idea!

I am in love with our crib set, and I'm so happy that I went with it! I can't wait to paint the nursery! As soon as we are home study approved, it's on!

And while I'm spamming you with pictures, here is one more! Kyle finally re-stained our kitchen table! We have had it since we got married. But it was made years ago by Kyle's Grandpa. We also have a china hutch and our bedroom set that was made by him. Anyway, I never loved the color of the table. I'm a dark wood kind of girl. He's been meaning to do it foreve, but he never had the time in Washington. But here, he finally did! Now all we need is to buy a new set of unfinished wood chairs and stain them to match! He did such a good job on the table! It's not my style of furniture, but it means a lot to him to have it.

Nice, eh? Once again, crappy cell phone picture. But it was easier than busting out the big guy, and then uploading to the computer blah blah blah!

Well my dears, I need to go tuck Kyle into bed! He has to go into work at 3 a.m. Ick! Hope everyone has a fantastic week!

P.s. If you aren't a follower, become one! Right NOW! Please and thank-you!

Hand Picked

Whenever I go to Target (or anywhere for that matter!), no how much I try to fight it, I ALWAYS end up in the baby section! I just can't help it. There is a gravitational pull there, I swear! Anyway, I have been eyeing this set since it first came out at the beginning of spring. When I first saw it, I always thought it would be perfect if we adopt a little girl! But I never bought it, because who knows if we'll get a boy or girl. But today, I just couldn't resist any longer, and I bought it! I figure if we end up with a boy, then I'll just pass it on to one of my bloggy friends who has a girl! Tell me that this isn't so precious, and so perfect for adoption? I just love it! The first one says "Hand Picked", the middle one is just daises, and the one of the back says "Watch Me Grow".

Quick post!

Majority rules! For the give-away, I'm going to do a box full of fun! It will be filled with all sorts of goodies! It will mostly be things that I love, and depending on who wins and how much I know about them, I will try to personalize it a bit as well! We are only 8 followers away from beginning! And then I will post details on what's up!

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

XOXO

P.s. I saw this street sign today, and I just had to laugh! Because it's usually true! *wink* Brilliant I tell you!

Ideas?

I figured that I would have come up with someone ultra awesome to give away. But no. LoL I suck at this game. I don't really have any awesome creative skills of my own, other than photography. And it's fair at best, and kind of a lame prize. So I am asking you, what would you like the chance to win? Some good reads? A gift certificate? Something homemade and crafty from one of my many awesome crafty friends? A box filled with random fun? Help! I really thought I would have had a stroke of genius by now, but no! I've put all of my creative energy into other outlets. I need some opinions! Or this will be a non-existent/lamest give-away ever! Aaaaand go!

P.s. Stop judging me!

Back to the grind.

That's right! This week, I re-joined the adult world and started my new job! With moving and everything, I haven't worked since the end of February! And my last few months there were part time, so I am used to not working much at all! Haha! Tuesday was tough! I had a hard time sleeping the night before because I had accidentally gotten on Kyle's current schedule. We were staying up until 2 a.m. and sleeping in until 11 or 12! Oops! He had to for his shift, I just did it, well just because I had nothing better to do! Anyway, long story short, I only slept a couple of hours and then had to wake up at 5:45! No bueno! But the girls were pretty good, so that helped a lot. I was just soooo sleepy! Hello coffees and Monsters! LoL And it's also been a short week, which has been awesome! Worked Tuesday, I'm off on Wednesdays, today I got off at noon because they had  a doctor's appointment, and Fridays are shorter days! Weehaw! I'm really enjoying the time with the girls! They are so sweet! Wanna see a picture of them?

Precious, right? Maddie is on the left, and Katie is on the right. I think this job will work out nicely! And did I tell you that their Mom is going to hold onto all of their clothes, in case we get a girl?! Awesome right? I have great bosses! They are super nice, and we get along well. That is very important!

I just got done emailing a copy of our profile to our family advocate, at the agency. Fingers crossed that she likes it! I'm so nervous waiting to hear back from her! guess only time will tell! We don't have a social worker. Our agency doesn't appoint one until after all of your clearances have gone through. Hopefully that will be soon! But for now, we have our family advocate. And she seems really nice. I also asked her what's next? We have sent in all of our paperwork, all of our documents that they needed, and we've even completed the profile! Besides our 3 meetings(minimum) with a social worker, I think that's it! Exciting!

Anyway, I'm going to try to go get a few things accomplished before Kyle wakes up and wants some dinner. Oh! And don't forget! Once I get to 50 followers I'll be doing a give-away! Still no details yet...I should really figure that out. But at the rate it's taking to get followers, seems like I have awhile! Am I just not that interesting?! LoL