Isaiah

This is Isaiah we are still working on a middle name :) He is a healthy, he will be 1 on June 3rd. We are so excited to go get him. Cannot wait to find out when our court date is. It will be sometime between Aug & Oct. hopefully Aug. Josh will not be able to go due to his class for the Army but we are pretty sure this will be okay. But it will have to be approved by the country, they may require us both to go. 

We are a little or A LOT nervous at this point there is a lot to do and not as much time as we had expected to  have to do it in. I think it has hit us now that we are going to be parents! So exciting but a little scary too. We just cannot wait to get him home! God is so good! We are so blessed. 

REFERRAL!!!!

Wow! What a day! We received a referral today for a healthy baby boy!!! He is almost 1, his birthday is June 3, 2010. We are excited beyond words! Cannot believe it happened so quick! God is so GOOD!

Finished!!!

Our Dossier is FINISHED!!!!!! It is on its way to be authenticated in DC and then sent to the Stork to be double checked and then finally off to Ethiopia. Today was a very very stressful day trying to get the last form notarized and everything mail.....apparently nothing opens before 10am on Saturday. So getting up at 7:30 was a real waste. But we finally got everything done and in the mail. Our I-600a for immigration is also completed!!! WoooHooo!!! Everything is starting to come together thank God! We talked to our agency today and he said everything looks good and we should be getting our referral soon. Soon to me is a few minutes from now....not sure what it is to him though. Back to waiting "patiently" :)
We are finished with all of our pre-adoption paperwork!! I hope! Now the next step is applying for grants!

Today is a sad day though because our friends/next door neighbors moved to back to Nashville. We will really miss you guys!

Possible Referral

We got our completed homestudy in the mail today!!!! I found out yesterday that our agency has a possible referral on hold for us!!! As soon as we get our dossier sent to the stork which will review everything and send it on to Ethiopia we will get to see our referral! We are soooo excited and very nervous, we were definitely not expecting this to happen so fast, but we are very happy! 

We are so close to having our dossier finished, waiting on a couple of things but hopefully they will be finished by Monday. It is even harder to wait when you know that there is nothing you can do to speed things up.... Just trying to stay busy.