Monday, March 24, 2008

Oh, the Joy of Easter and Little Girls!


Just so pleased to feel pretty!


Gotta smell the flowers!



This photo prior to church and easter egg hunts: I was going for the PRE-"chocolate induced coma and malted egg smear down the dress" look.



I love my family!

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

WE ARE #10 ON BABY BOY LIST!



We received our phonecall today bright and early announcing that we are #10 on the boy list. We are super excited and finally feel like this is a reality! You spend so many hours doing paperwork without a kick in your tummy or a heart beat to hear to confirm this wonderful miracle. We will now only be hearing from our agency monthly to update us on our status. We do however get bi-weekly updates via email and should be able to guess where we stand based upon the referrals given for the last 2 weeks. We have been told to gear up for a wait time of 4-5 months for referral and 2-3 months to travel, so still a ways away...but getting closer as we speak.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Yipee! Wahoo! Yes!!! Los Angeles Immigration ROCKS!

We are super stoked! In the mail Rob found our "favorable determination letter". Immigration basically provided a statement saying that we are approved for bringing an orphan home to the US. We have faxed this letter to our agency and they will provide us with where we are on the list, as in maybe we will be # 11 on the boy list. This will mean we have 10 people ahead of us waiting to adopt a boy. Within the last two weeks they sent out 5 referrals!!! So this means, maybe our wait won't be so long. We are expecting to wait about 5 months for an infant boy referral and then we would travel to Ethiopia 3-5 months after that to pick up our little guy!!!!I will post again when I find out our exact ranking.