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Adoption Update!

Every Friday I do an adoption update on my personal Facebook page so that our friends and family know how to pray for us and because I’m sure people who have donated to our adoption want to know where we are in the process.  But I realized I haven’t done one here yet!

We started this process in July.  We announced we were adopting early July, got our acceptance email from FAC mid-July, started gathering paperwork for our home study shortly after we announced we were adopting and now here we are mid-August!  Things are moving so much faster that we first expected–which is great!!!  I’m thankful that I was off work in July so that I could really spend time gathering and filling out paperwork. 

 Pretty much everything is done on our end.  We’re just waiting on a few things to come through.  We’ve got our last home study visit in a few days, we’re waiting on our profile book to be completed (that should be by this weekend), and we’re waiting on our Texas clearances to come through ( a requirement from FAC in case we adopt from TX).

I don’t think it’s a lofty goal in hoping to be active by the end of September!!  So what will that mean?  We’ll be ready to match with a birth mom and the average wait for our agency is 4.5 months–so it could be quick!  Please keep praying for us! The sooner we are active then the sooner we have to have proof of funds to our agency and we are almost 1/4th of the way to our goal! You can still give at paypal.me/DustinShaneyfelt or if you are local, you can mail or give to us in person!

Yesterday I went to my first consignment sale EVER!!  My friend and her husband put on this massive consignment sale twice a year and I obviously have never had a need to go.  I was blown away by how awesome the clothes were!  She only accepts the good stuff so while I was scrounging the racks for gender neutral clothing, I kept wishing I knew what the gender would be because I kept passing up Feltman Brothers and Petit Ami!  I didn’t find very many clothes but I did luck out and get a rock and play that I had on my list!  Excellent quality and the best price!  I plugged it in last night to show Dustin when he got home how it worked and I could have cried because it was so sweet–literally cannot wait to put a baby in it!


Monday Coffee Talk!

Monday came really fast, didn’t it?

I’m up early this morning getting this blog post written because when it came time for me to write this last night, I chose to soak in our tub instead ha!

So let’s grab a cub of coffee (or a skinny vanilla latte for me) and hang out!

-About 3 weeks ago, I decided to make Monday my sheet washing day.  I was tired of washing our sheets on the weekend and it’s nice to go to bed on a Monday night with clean sheets!

-Anyone else watching Suits?  I started binge watching the series on Amazon Prime mid-May and I’m so happy to say that I’m all caught up and even caught up with the current season.  Harvey and Donna are my favorite!

-My sister started a health and fitness accountability group on Facebook last week and last week was the hardest to begin because of school!!  I only worked out once last week (Saturday 😂) so I’m ready for this week to be much better!

-Speaking of working out Saturday, I’m currently doing the BBG workouts.  Last week would have been week 2, so since I only worked out once, I did the arms and abs day on Saturday since those need so much work on me.  Safe to say my shoulders and stomach will be sore for a while!


-Last night I finished uploading all of our photos and text for our profile book.  I ended up hiring out someone to do it after I found a girl who gave me a great deal on it and her style was exactly what I wanted.  I was going to do it myself, but after I spent a few hours trying to figure it out and only ended up with 2 pages done and extremely stressed, I realized it would be better for my sanity to hire it out.


-Speaking of working on our profile book, I went through all of our pictures and came across pictures from early 2017 when I had cut my hair off.  Seeing those REALLY made me want to cut my hair again!!!  This was taken pre-all the really heavy fertility meds so I was much thinner.  I really think that once I lose enough weight to where you can see it in my face, I’m going to cut my hair!!!  (Maybe??)

-And because I’m obsessed with baby clothes, here’s a gender neutral footed pj that I love!

Friday Faves: First Week of School!!

Hallelujah it’s finally Friday!!!!  The first week back to school is always the hardest and I am exhausted.  I am going to turn my phone on silent tonight and sleep in tomorrow morning!!!

Today’s post is going to be pretty short because I feel like I’ve been in a fog this entire week and literally haven’t taken any photos!  But before I get to my favorite things, I’ve been thinking a lot about infertility and adoption and so I hope to have a more “real” post out next week about my feelings currently.  

And we are still taking donations through PayPal for our adoption!!  I know August is such a hard month for some people because of all the back to school fees, but we are so very appreciative of anything donated!  Things are getting so close to being done and getting ready to go active!!  Eek!  And once we go active, we need about 15k-20k just in case we get matched with an agency that requires a match fee.  So for those who still want to donate to our fund, you can through paypal at paypal.me/DustinShaneyfelt    THANK YOU!!!


I didn’t get a photo from the first day of school and I wish I would have!!  I wore a cute yellowish dress from Anthro that I snagged a couple of years ago.  I stayed at school until 4 that afternoon working on things for the next day and then I came home to do more school work.  I made myself stop for dinner and then after dinner I relaxed in our bed drinking a La Croix and watching a Hallmark Christmas movie haha!  My favorite way to unwind!



I absolutely LOVE that Lilly finally has brought out longer hemlines.  Until now, I really have avoided buying lots of Lilly because all of the dresses are too short for me to wear to school and sadly, most of the clothes I buy I have to make sure I can wear them to school.  I had a gift card to use before our beach trip, so I picked up this dress.  I threw a blue jean jacket on over this for school since my district requires wider straps for the shoulders.


I hope y’all have a great weekend!!!  I’ll be working on our adoption profile book and scanning in all of our documents into a dropbox for our consultants!!