REFERRAL!!!!!!

"I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him"
1 Samuel 1:27

Yesterday at 1:48pm we received THE CALL!!!! I was at work and Brad was at a training for work.
Caitlin from AWAA called and said "Tara this is an exciting call, we have your referral!!!"
I said "Ahhhhhh, oh my goodness!!" She asked if I wanted her to call Brad on three way, I said yes, but he might not be able to answer. As I was waiting for Brad to answer, I just kept thinking "Thank you Jesus!!" That's about all I could get out!!
Luckily he did answer, because I think he would have been upset if I found out the information without him, but there was no way I was hanging up without knowing some details. Once she got Brad on the phone, she told us:

ITS A 7 week old BOY!!!!!!

I was crying on my end and I could hear Brad crying too. The whole phone call lasted 3 mins and 23 secs. After we hung up with Caitlin, I called Brad right back and asked him to hurry over here so we can look at the picture together. He rushed over to my school, but the email wasn't there yet. About 30 mins after we hung up and Brad hitting refresh 100 times :) , the email showed up!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!

I ran down and got a friend of mine to videotape us seeing his picture. I thought we'd try to keep it a secret for a few hours until we told our families, but she was jumping around and telling everyone we passed in the hallway.

So we sat down to open the email, and I opened the wrong attachment like 4 times, there are many attachments that come with a referral. The pictures were the last ones, haha. Finally, we saw his precious face!!!! He is so cute with beautiful brown eyes, perfect milk chocolate skin, chubby little cheeks, and a head full of hair. We are so overjoyed and can’t wait to get our hands on him and love on him!!!
After sitting and looking at his picture and Praising God, I went out into the hallway. I could hear people walking by saying, is it a boy or girl?? So my whole school knew within a few mins. But I was a proud mom ready to show off the pictures!!!

Brad took the medical file over to our pediatrician, our good friend is a nurse there and she helped us get the file reviewed in about 30 mins after we dropped it off!! Everything looks good and he is healthy!!!! Thanks Marie!!

Brads family lives close, so we got to show up at their house and surprise them with the news. We called my family, and NONE of them answered the first time I called. So much for them waiting by their phones this week. Once I called a second time they all answered. We are meeting them halfway tonight to show them the pictures!!

Everyone is asking us when we get to go meet him, but we won't know that for awhile still. We are really hoping for April. We are sending in the referral acceptance today and hoping to get our papers submitted for court soon!! We are so grateful that God choose us to be his parents!!!

Thank you to everyone that has helped us at some point during this process, this whole thing has been such a blessing and we can't wait until we can post pictures and share him with the world!!! Everyones excitement has been a blessing too!! Thank you!!!

"Delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart."

Psalm 37:4

I'm a MOMMA!!!!! Praise the Lord!!!