Home Visit.... Check!

It was nowhere near as scary as I had imagined it would be... we made it through our home visit today with no problems or catastrophes. In fact, I thought it went really well! Our social worker came and we showed her our house, we signed more forms and answered more questions, and we went through the massive foster parent checklist. (Technically we will be foster parents until the adoption is finalized, so we have to meet the states requirements for foster parents as well.)

Here we are with our social worker:

Here she is filling out some forms with Andy (there were seriously a dozen more forms... we have to total well over 100 by now!):

And this is what Kenai did while we were working... he chewed on his bone, and PASSED GAS.  Yep, you heard me correctly... Every once in a while we'd get a whiff of nasty dog gas, which was actually kind of funny. We'd be talking about something serious and then get a whiff... and we'd laugh. It'll make for an interesting memory!

We made it!  Now, we wait for the home study document and paperwork to be completed (on our social worker's end) and then that will go to our placement agency for review. I wondered how on earth we'd ever get to this point in the process, but we did it! Our social worker is officially recommending us for placement!