A year has gone by

It has been a long time since we updated the blog. We have endured a couple of bumps regarding legal issues of the state delaying our finalization. The wonderful news is that on Aug. 2nd, 2010, we finalized our adoption. It was a great day. We felt a final relief knowing that the boys are our sons. Their silly little smiles looked at us that day as our official sons.

We have moved through many different stages of behaviors and we are sure there are many more to come. The boys are doing very well, have adjusted amazingly to structure. The kids are both doing well in school. Nick is in 6th grade and Jeremiah is in 1st grade. They love to share all they have learned. Jeremiah is reading a ton in school and Nick is very social.

With our family of 4 and 3 dogs I often compare us to the Weasleys from Harry Potter. I like to use this comparison because Mrs. Weaseley is fantastic and her kids are hysterical. Mr Weasley is funny and brave just like Matt. I can see both boys some day fighting dark forces and standing up for what is right. Our home, like theirs is always busy. We often have extra children running around laughing and making a mess. We would not want it any other way though!



I also want to acknowledge National Adoption Month of November. This month adoption advocates all over and trying to give information, education and help with adoption services. I hope people reach out to learn more about all adoptions. All of our amazing family and friends we urge you to research foster adoption so you can have more insight into our adoption. Remember sites like adoptuskids.com other state heart galleries. They have a lot of information about foster adoption.






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The Moore family has grown by 2

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Hello. It has been awhile since I have updated and it is because we have been extra busy. Why? We have been traveling a lot to see our new SONS! Thats right. We are offically matched with the two most amazing kids ever. At first, it was surreal and almost didn't seem like it was true. On Oct. 6th, (my birthday) Matt and my adoption worker called. That morning we had phone interviews with the whole adoption team, and we knew it was going to be between us and another family. So, anyways, our worker said she had a couple more questions from the team. Then she said actually we just have one... so we had her on speaker and were waiting and then she said, "how would you like to be the proud parents of two little boys?" Matt screamed and I cried. This by far was the best birthday on the planet!

When we first saw them, we fell in love! Jeremiah was peeking out the door and smirking and Nick came to take a look and see what we were like too. We played ball with them a bit, and after that, we were hooked. They are 4 hours away at the moment so we have been spending a lot of time traveling to see them whenever we can. Nick is 10 and Jeremiah is 5. Both of them are funny,smart and super handsome! We have been able to have time with them, hanging out, and talking. They both tell some funny jokes, and both love baseball. They have very distinct personalities too. Its fun to watch them. Recently, we went to see them and trick or treat with them on halloween, which was really fun. Also, we just had them here at home for the weekend. Matt and I found out really quickly that our days of sleeping in are very limited, but those boys are sooooo worth the loss. These boys have made our family whole. We are now waiting for some paperwork to be processed and hopefully soon, the boys will be here for good. Both boys know and understand that we are a forever family, and have both called us their mom and dad. What an incredible feeling! How awesome.

Thanks everyone for your support and love! We know the road that lies ahead will be crazy and difficult, but it will also be blessed and fun. They have already brought so much love and laughter into our home and hearts!

We love you all. We will update soon.




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photo album

Hi everyone.
We decided to post a photo album on our blog as well. It is below. Love to you all!
Matt and Kasey

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

waiting equals patience

Hello friends and family!
It is update time again. Although things with the adoption look the same regarding to where we are in life, in the process, it seems for both of us, that things are moving along. We have had some downs lately but recently have been extremly optomistic.

All things take time, sometimes are patience is worn thin, but it will all come through in the end the way it is sapose to. As we talked about in one of our first blogs regarding foster adoption, often times, kids in the foster system, behave differently than other kids their age. Having patience and learning how to cope with the waiting, and the issues regarding being a "waiting family" help us to experience more patience. This is a learning experience, and will help us in the long run when we are parenting a child that need more patience in general.

This last month or so, we have been thinking pretty hard about how to make our homestudy stand out. Sometimes, when a homestudy is sent, we have no idea if it has even been read. The workers get a lot of studies for each child that is being inquired in. We decided to add a cover letter with a picture of us. The letter focuses on who we are, what we believe, where were are in life, marriage, and location. It also discusses why we believe staying open and in contact to loved ones of the children is important. Of course, the picture on the letter of us, is us decked out in Red Sox gear, as I am sure most of you would have already guessed.

We are going to make up a couple sheets of pictures of family and where we live. This makes sense to me, because having a picture to look at and go with what is being read, makes it more real.

On another note, work is busy for Matt. He continues to post to the field and is now being put up for flight chief, which is a cool responsibility, and he will do great! Kasey is busy in school, and is learning so much about muscles and their functions, its nuts. We are both so thankful to be doing things we love for work. What great support we have in our lives in all we do, including the adoption process. Also, today we celebrate our 7 year wedding anniversary!


SO, thats the news for now. We continue to inquire in children from all over the United States. We also, have some hopes for things to work out in a couple seperate situations. We truly believe, that all the prayers being said are doing amazing things for this process. We can feel it! We love you all soooo much!

update on the summer

Hello family and friends!

It is that update time again. We are in the process of inquiries, inquiries and more inquiries. Since our home study has been approved in May, we have been inquiring on waiting children all over the United States. It becomes somewhat difficult because each state has a different set of rules on how to deal with waiting families. Often times we just inquire, let our worker Alysha know, and wait. Some states, can not talk with the families and only can have contact with the workers. Some states, can't give us information until we are matched on the children, while others can give a pretty hefty summary before we decide to submit our home study. Sometimes, we hear right away, while other times we don't hear a thing. The amount of inquiries each child or sibling group gets on them is very large, so the workers have a ton to sort through, making each child different in needs and attention attached to them.

We have been going through, what I suppose are the ups and downs of the process. We inquire on children and although hopeful we want to be realistic and not get our hopes up. This is pretty difficult. Every child we inquire on, we have hopes will someday join our family. We both do know however, the kids meant to be with us will find our home. We truly are blessed with the knowledge that we will be parents, hopefully soon.

We have been keeping really busy this summer too, which helps keep our minds off of all the unknowns. Matt is working as usual and doing a lot of volunteer work. Kasey taking summer courses which keep her really busy. We have also had the pleasure of having Matt's parents come for a visit to ND. We also went to Montana to visit some family and friends and had fun, laughing and spending much needed time with family.

We are so thankful, as usual, for all the amazing support and love we get from you amazing people we call our family and friends! We love you all so much. The encouragement and love is greatly and always appreciated!

BRING on the KID!

Hi Everyone!

We are excited to let you all know that we have signed and completed our adoption asessment. This is big news around our house, because we can now start inquiring on children. We can get more information on children we find on websites and adoption photolisting databases. Then, our awesome adoption worker, Alysha, will send off our homestudy to be viewed by the the child's worker. Often times it will go into a group of other homestudys of families interested in the same child. After this, the child's workers make a decision on a family that would best fit the child's needs and life. So, here is to the next step!!



It is so exciting because we are finally able to realize that we will be parents. There is hopefully soon, be a little person to teach and help grow in our home. It truly is an amazing feeling! We love you all and thanks so much for all the support you continue to give us and all the happiness you are sending our way!

~ Matt & Kase

Progress. Progress. Progress

That is right folks, we are continuing on down the adoption home-study road. Two events have happened since we last updated the adoption blog. I will start out by saying this is getting closer, which means we are getting more excited, anxious and nervous as the days go by.

A couple weeks back we had to go to the office. We had to get our fingerprints rolled and turn in our FBI background checks. We did that, which of course, Matt loved. Then, we had to take Taylor Johnson testing. It examines personality traits. We did one on ourselves and then we had to fill one out on each-other. We had to be isolated from one another so we did not cheat, ha. Anyways, as I was filling mine out and then one on Matthew, I realized I was filling out the testing really similar. Afterwards Matt mentioned the same thing. The funny thing is, as most of you know, the fact that we have similar traits is crazy. When we first got married, we fit the opposites attract idea really well! So, it’s funny that in the almost 8 years together, we have gained some from one another. I love that I am more like Matt! Anyways, so at the end of the day, we had finished all the prep work before our adoption worker started her home visits. We also conversed with our adoption worker to our first visit.

The next week, she was at our house for the first time. She walked in and we sat at our table. She also toured around the house. Marvin was quiet and in his house, (you heard correctly quite). Lucy pranced around, believing the visit was all about her and nothing else was as important. Then, we talked about some of our HUGE pile of paperwork we turned in. Let me just tell you, when you are trying to write a ton of information about yourself, it is extremely difficult. I felt like we were bragging about ourselves or wondering how to say certain things in positive light. It is not easy to disclose your WHOLE life; in paperwork to people you do not know.

The majority of the time we spent at this meeting was based on our family autobiography. We discussed our childhoods, which was fun. We talked about our friendships growing up and our parents. It was fun, because Matt and I did what we do best, and laughed our way through it. I talked about our neighborhood friends and kickball in front yard, Dad being my coach for everything and my parents making my childhood pretty darn fun. I talked about Carrie, and how I would follow her around and tag along with her. I told her about the nights I got to sleep with my sister were my favorite, and the bubble hot air igloos in our hallway.

Matt talked about his childhood too. His paper route was a topic. He also talked about his youth group and his friends there. He talked about his Dad and Mom growing up, and how he “helped” going on jobs with him. He talked about his relationships to his big sisters, who he always looked up to and loved a lot. He also told about how fun it was for him to annoy them a bit.

We then talked about growing up in high school and what kind of kids we were honestly. Matt described himself as a quite guy that spent school just passing through and then about his journey into the Air Force. I talked about my school and how I was always pretty social. Also I talked about my first friend Mitsu, and one my best friend Tawnya, both of whom I love and still consider the best friends ever.

The next topic was how we met, which is always pretty fun to talk about. We also spoke about our relationships with one another’s family. Obviously, Matt talked about how much he loved Mom, and the help she is with our monster dogs. Also, how he admired and loved Carrie. We also talked about our really close relationship with Aunt Beth and Uncle Jim. We told funny stories about the family. All in good fun of course:). We talked about Matthew’s family and how we have fun visiting. We talked about our Red Sox game last May with Matt’s parents and the fun we had. We talked about how it’s hard sometimes because we do not seem them often due to distance, making it hard to get to know each other. Also, we told the accent story, about me saying I had the accent as a kid, and had speech therapy, and Bob said, “Burn” on the first visit to their home in MA. Matt still tells that all the time. Which, is still kind of funny, sorry Bob Anyways, we talked about his sisters and the kiddos and Chris and his chainsaw starting fork.

So, now you are all caught up. We have about 2 more visits at the house and then hopefully, we get approved. It can be really nerve wrecking. All we can do is be honest, and hope we have what is needed. This Friday is our next meeting. I will update again after that. We love you all!


Kisses in the Wind ( A waiting child’s lullaby)

I hold you in my heart and touch you in my dreams.
Here you are each day with me, at least that’s how it seems.

I know you wonder where we are… whats taking us so long.
But remember child, I love you so and God will keep you strong.

Now go outside and feel the breeze and let it touch your skin…
Because tonight, just as always, I blow you kisses in the wind.

May God hold you in His hand until I can be with you.
I promise you, my darling, I’m doing all that I can do.

Very soon, you’ll have a family for real, not just pretend.
But for tonight, just as always, I blow you kisses in the wind.

May God wrap you in His arms and hold you very tight.
And let the angels bring the kisses that I send you every night.