Thankful for All the Little Things

We know our heavenly Father had these and many other details all planned out for us.

Here are some thanksgiving highlights:

-He is healthy and growing. He is 5lbs 1oz.

-Met him Three years to the day from when we sent in our profile book

-We had no sicknesses when we were matched

-Van tires had a slow leak and tire place fixed the morning we left

-Adoption match fees came in about $1,000 less than expected so we used those for our first trip expenses

-Traveling mercies for February

-Nurses and doctors at hospital in NICU

-Health and protection for Baby

-Jan 19 Kate was sick but she recovered quickly before our match

-Aunt and Uncle helped watch E on first Friday there

-Church in Boise, we had several connections

-Ronald McDonald House: free to stay, 1 block from hospital

-Good weather in February so we could travel easily across the state

-the first month he shared a room with another baby who required the best nurses so Pilgrim was getting the best of the best care

-He is in the 50 percentile in growth

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Help Support Our Adoption

February 2022 We have been matched! Read More Here Our current need is donations for travel and legal fees. The baby boy is about 6 hours away and so Jesse is travelling every weekend to see Kate and the baby. The baby is in the NICU and he will be there until about middle of April. So Jesse will be travelling about 10 times over the next few months. Helping cover the travel fees would be a great blessing to us. We estimate travel fees to be $1000. To finalize the adoption we will need to hire a lawyer to set up all the paperwork for the court. This will happen in about 10-12 months. We are estimating that legal fees will be about $2000. We are very thankful for all the support we have received. Thanks to all the many donations! Ways to Donate: GoFundMe page PayPal: paypal.me/jessesumpter Cash App: $JesseSumpter Check: Use Contact Form at bottom for Mailing Info Ronald McDonald House Kate Sumpter #203, 139 East Warm Springs Avenue, Boise, Idaho 83712

Getting Started

This past Summer we decided to begin the adoption process. We got in touch with A New Beginning Adoption Agency and applied and were accepted! We are so glad to be working with this agency again. We worked with A New Beginning with our first adoption and at that time we choose them because they were locally based and had a caseworker in our area. We also had friends from church who adopted through them; one was a domestic infant adoption and another was through the foster program. Both friends had great things to say about the support of the agency and the guidance they gave throughout the whole process. After our application was approved, we went to the infant adoption training in early September. We drove 6 hours to get there and enjoyed the time in the car to talk. The training was fabulous! We attended sessions all day on Friday and then a half day on Saturday. We were fed meals and snacks and had plenty of time to get to know some of the other adoptive families a...

Welcome

Jesse and Kate (and Epiphany!) are thankful that you are here. We are starting the adoption process in our home state of Idaho and we wanted to keep our friends updated on our process. We are still working on our home study. We are also trying to raise some more funds. The average cost of a domestic adoption in Idaho is about $24,000. We have about half of that. If you are interested in donating, more information will be coming soon. Please be praying that the whole process will go smoothly. Thanks!

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