It's in the mail!!!!

Well we just got an email from our social worker that our dossier is officially in the mail to Colombia!  So the next time anyone hears anything will be because we got approved....hopefully at least :)  We are praying this wait will not stretch on for months and our social worker is hopeful as well since we are adopting three kids at once.  Anyway not much news other than that but this is a very exciting day for us!  Hopefully it won't be too long before we have more news to share with you all!

And The Wait Begins...

This morning when we checked the mail we had received our FBI appostilles!  I know that does not mean a lot to most of you but to us it means that our wait just went down by 3 weeks or so!  They have been taking about 5 weeks or so to come back and ours arrived in just 2...so this morning was a mad rush around our house to finish up the picture books we had to finish to send to our children so we could overnight this paperwork to our agency by the time we both had to get to work today.  Our social worker has everything ready to go and was just waiting for these last couple things so now she can send out our dossier to ICBF(the Colombian Government).  This means that there is actually nothing else we can do to push this adoption along.  It is so exciting yet in the same breath this wait is going to be so hard and so long.  It was crazy for us to be making those picture books and putting next to our pictures   "mama y papa"  We are both so ready to just actually see those little faces and hear those little names.  Well anyway we will have plenty to fill our time with...probably the biggest thing still is just working on our spanish.  You can all be praying for us in that area! 

On a different note, we did get hooked up with a really neat organization called Village to Village International.  They are an organization that helps adopting families raise money to help with the financial side of things.  They set up an account for us and leave it to us to send out the information to friends and family.  All donations that go through their website...through our page....are tax deductible and go straight to our adoption agency to help with our costs.  We have added a link on the right side of our page that will take you directly to our families home page.  We are trusting in God to provide all our needs through this adoption and are just taking every step one at a time. 

Thank you to all once again for following along with us and hopefully very soon we will have more excellent news to share with you all!