Homestudy!

Well, we have finished the homestudy. It is the first milestone to meet and I am so excited. Our next step is the I-600a. Then to get the documents together for the Dossier.

We are going to set up an appointment to have our psychological evaluation and I am sending off to get copies of our marriage license.

Please continue to pray that everything goes smoothly and quickly so Lima can come home faster!

What's been going on....

It has been a crazy week since we have been home from the Michigan trip. Putting Lima on the plane back to Russia was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. I managed to keep it together for her benefit, but I was dying inside and that was the longest trip home.

We had such a wonderful time with her. She will fit so well into our family. She has the most wonderful personality with a little spark of independence that reminds me so much of Chloe (and myself when I was younger).

Whe got home late Monday night and we have been running since. We are having our homestudy on Saturday and I have been gathering papers like crazy. Brandon and I also managed to get Matt's old room ready some more. We moved all Matt's stuff to storage, painted, redid the floors and I sewed some curtains. I needed to do something that made me feel we were getting closer. I also unpacked her clothes. It was very hard. I know we have such a long road ahead and I wonder what she is thinking and if she even has an idea of how her life is about to change.

God has been so wonderful in this whole process. We have had many road bumps and He has been there with, at times, true miracles!

Here are a few pictures of the trip and us with Lima:

Michigan Trip

Well we are having a wonderful time so far on the trip. Lima is everything we expected and more. She is so wonderful and will fit into our family perfectly. She is still somewhat shy, but warming up quickly.

We arrived in Grand Rapids late Friday night and her sister that was adopted my a wonderful family here in Michigan was able to come and visit on Saturday and we shopped for fabric and sewed for the girls. It ened up being such a late night that they decided to spend the night. They stayed until Sunday night. We are going to visit them today at their house.