His First Birthday

Today is his 1st birthday - can't wait to celebrate with him and family when we get to bring him home :) Miss him!!

Paperwork Excitement and Disappointment

So, I know it's been forever since I posted on here, but I've been VERY busy putting together our court paperwork. Last week I was able to get 37 documents apostilled and sent off to our family coordinator to send over to Russia. It was a great feeling, since I had been carrying this stuff around forever. I got so excited about sending it off, that I didn't take the pictures of it that I wanted to. So, I asked my coordinator to humor me and take pictures of it when it arrived at her office. She was kind enough to do so....see below. It may sound silly, but you work SO hard on getting this all done, that you want to remember it!

So, the bad news is that we are still missing a very important document from USCIS. This is because not only did our fingerprints expire with them in Jan., but we also moved. Therefore, we had to get re-fingerprinted (which we did on Monday), and now they will send us a new form with our current address on it.

I was VERY disappointed to find out today (our little guy's 1st bday) that we need this immigration form to get a court date. This is not what I was originally told, so I thought we were already in the process of "getting" a court date. SO frustrating, and it made me so sad.

The one thing I know is that there isn't anything I could have done to speed this process up....we moved in Nov, our social worker visited in Dec and wrote our updated home study, our fingerprints expired in Jan, I sent updated home study and re-fingerprint request in Jan, we were mailed our fingerprint appointments for this past Monday (2/22), so now we are waiting on our immigration form. All I can trust is that GOD's hand is in all of this, and that HE is sovereign. Hopefully, we can still go in April - we'll pray, pray, pray!

Romans 5:3-5