Adoption T-shirts!

We are so excited to have the design ready for our T-shirt fundraiser! We didn't really plan on doing a fundraiser, but several people have wanted to be involved and help, and this is the best way I know... the t-shirts will raise a little money, but more importantly they will be a GREAT encouragement to us. They should be around $20 and might be on a slightly different color grey shirt than the one pictured...

This process is very time intensive, paperwork intensive, $ intensive and can sometimes be overwhelming... after trying over 3 years to get pregnant, and not knowing how long the adoption will take - seeing the people we love wearing this t-shirt will help us to trust God and wait for, as Campbell says "the perfect baby for us!" We hope the shirt will also help raise awareness/support for adoption as a whole - something so close to the heart of our God.

Thank you for supporting us, loving us and encouraging us through this exciting (yet scary!) process! Please continue to pray for us as we have our 2nd home study this Friday, and will hopefully finish up the others in April as well as our adoption training. We are hoping to have our profile up at the beginning of May! Pray that the Lord would prepare our hearts for what is to come...

Here it is - hope you like it as much as we do!


Red and yellow, black and white - they are precious in His sight!
I have sung Jesus loves the little children to Cambpell since she was a baby... not just because I love the song, but because I love the message and I knew/hoped she might have a very colorful family one day...

Shoot me an email if you are interested in a shirt at katiebcompton@gmail.com... include mens/womens/childrens, size and # of shirts.

Can't wait to see this shirt on Cambpell - and you! :)

Children of God

This is a MUST SEE... I love Third Day, and I love this song of theirs that sings of all of our (believers) adoption in Christ! We are ALL adopted... And I love seeing their actual families at the end of the video. This is not just another Christian band singing about adoption - they are living it out!

To hear the song make sure you pause the music on our blog under the playlist to the right...

Adoption Update & Africa

Our fingerprints came back in record time!

Ben actually just recently got back from a two week medical mission trip to Kenya, Africa and we are so glad he is home! I will have to let him do a post about his trip - he has great pictures and stories as always. We are so thankful the Lord opened the door for him to be able to go again (it was his third trip) - the only thing that would have made it better was if he could have brought a baby home with him! :)

We turned our fingerprints and paperwork in right before he left, and within a little over a week (on Valentines Day!) I found out we had been approved! We are so thankful for this - we had heard horror stories of it taking FOREVER for some people to be approved, so this was a blessing. Our social worker sent me an email in disbelief that it happened so fast - and said "that must mean God has great things in store for the Comptons!" - just the encouragement I needed.

We also had our first Home Study today, and it went really well. This process has been slower than I thought, but I cannot say how thankful I am for our specific social worker. I feel the Lord handpicked her for us! She is really laid back and so understanding. She has been doing domestic adoptions for over 20 years, so hopefully we can soak up a lot of her knowledge! We will have a few more Home Studies, and a training class at the end of April. Hopefully after that we will be able to get our profile up, and see what God does from there! We could get a phone call just days before our babies birth, or we could have time to meet with the birth mom and get to know her before the birth. We could have a girl baby, or a boy baby - a sick baby or a healthy baby. We could have a black baby, a white baby or something in between. :) Its so exciting to think that the Lord already knows JUST what this baby will look like - even though we have NO CLUE! But it will be the perfect baby for us... a baby worth waiting these 3 (plus) years for!

I am hoping to do a little tshirt fundraiser for the adoption really soon - Ben and I have been working on the design... We are not wanting to ask people to financially help with the adoption (although many of you have been sweet to offer and any little bit would help!) but it would be so encouraging to us as we wait to see the people we love wearing a tshirt to remind us of the sweet baby that is on the way... more to come soon!

House for Sale!

Anyone in the market for a cute 3 bedroom 2 bath home in Birmingham? :)

Yes, our house is officially on the market... which is kinda sad. I know the Lord has us in Auburn, but leaving this great place - great friends, great church - its going to be rough. What will be even more rough is moving to Auburn and still owning this house!
Praying God will bring the right buyer - SOON! We will be renting for a while in Auburn while we build a house. We are in the process of buying a lot we love, and Bens dad is an architect and builder, so we are thankful to have the opportunity!

Lots going on around here lately... an adoption, moving, building a house, starting new job... lots of excitement, but lots of stress!