While waiting...

Since adoption is unpredictable and it may take months to get a referral, we've been encouraged to keep ourselves busy. This summer we certainly have done that. We've taken several trips out of town and stayed busy with friends while in town. We've been to the beach, Maryland, Philadelphia, NC mountains, and this past week we went to NJ.

While in NJ we had the opportunity to see my cousins, aunt, and uncle. This end of summer visit has become a tradition for us, and we look forward to it all year. We stayed with my cousin Kristin and her family. She has two adorable children who believed that Mark's sole purpose was to play with them, and he loved every minute of it :) It's so fun to see him play with them and reminds me how awesome of a father he is going to be. We had a great time just hanging out, shopping, and going to the water park. Kristin and I even did some shopping and got some really cute outfits for baby Harrill. The one below is so fitting for the whole process of adoption. It really puts in perspective, that no matter how long we have to wait (which i hope isn't long), that once we have our baby it will be completely worth it.

Now we are back home, with no trips planned for the next month or so, so we can get some stuff done around here. We need to start clearing out the office in order to turn it into a nursery. Then we need to pick paint colors and furniture, which everyone knows could take us the next couple of years to agree on :) I have lots of visions in my head for the nursery and I'm excited to see how it will actually turn out!

We will also be working on setting up some fundraisers in the near future, I'll be posting about them here on the blog as soon as I get it all figured out!