Looking back on 2009...

Since today is the last day of 2009, I am starting to think back to what a crazy year this was. Mike and i celebrated our 4th anniversary together with a great vacation to Palm Springs...we moved to a great home in Irvine...these are some of the good things we remember. But this year was also one of the hardest years I have ever experienced. We started seeing a specialist for infertility...went on infertility meds and after a long unsuccessful 3 months of those we officially started the adoption process.....watched over 10 friends get pregnant and have their babies...

And sooo much more. We also have been very very blessed with amazing friends who have walked with us in all these good and bad times.

Things we are looking forward to in 2010...bringing home our first baby!!!! And along the same lines, I cannot wait to see Mike hold our baby and be a dad. He is going to love our children so much. Becoming a mommy in 2010 will be an amazing adventure! I know this year will have ups and downs too but I think that God has strengthened us and prepared us individually and together to walk forward into this year with our heads held up high and knowing that this year will be GREAT!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Love, The Wise Family

Merry Christmas!

Well it is 11AM on Christmas morning and the skies in Southern California are clear so it should be a beautiful day. Today we have spent time opening our gifts for each other and are now taking our extremely dead, fire hazard of a tree down. But we truly want to remember what today is about. We remember our Savior's miraculous birth to the virgin Mary and rejoice that God planned it is such a beautiful way. It amazes me how the man who would die to save us of our sins and who created our every being would be a baby....dependent on his mother's milk for his own survival. Yet now it is us who are dependent of him and his word for our survival. Praise God!

Mike and I are also realizing that today was the day that we were hoping to have a baby home with us...God had other plans. It's just us two still but rejoicing knowing that He is in complete control. I'm not saying that we aren't a smidge disappointed but looking forward to seeing what God's timing looks like from here on out.

I hope you and your loved one's are enjoying this day and rejoicing for CHRIST IS BORN!!!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

Sorry for not being a faithful blogger!

Well I apologize for not being good at blogging lately. I am kinda taking a little break from blogging to deal with some minor medical issues and get through the holidays.

Thanks for reading this blog (to my 5 faithful followers)!!! I promise I will update you with any new info on our adoption or life in general as it comes up!

Update from our Social Worker

Mike and I have definitely felt very discouraged in this waiting time. After getting an email from the agency the week of Thanksgiving saying that our file is STILL incomplete and that they haven't shown us to any birthmoms, we felt lost. We were so sad because the agency was so encouraging that we wouldn't have to wait a long time to be matched but then we felt like they weren't doing anything to help that move along. Our of the blue our social worker writes us this week to just check in. Talk about an answer to prayer...we had been hoping that someone would contact us and it not always be in our court.

I wrote Anita (our social worker) back and told her how we were feeling and asked for either some encouragement or a reality check. Not even 24 hours later she responded with a great email letting us know that our file should be complete very very soon and that she found out we were recently shown to a birthmother!!! I mean...this woman may not choose us but we were just so happy that we are really moving along in this process. I had happy tears!

We know that this is in God's timing and God is definitely on our side. He knows exactly how much we can handle and i think he knew that we were getting close to the end of our rope. God is so good...we are still praying for a baby to be home with us very soon!

Praise God with us!