Are you ready? It's a......

First let me say that Romania was amazing - we've fallen in love with the people there and met so many that we wished we could have brought home with us! More about the trip later....

On the adoption front things are moving at the speed of light! We aren't supposed to say too much because there is the risk that our adoption and the adoptions of many others can be jeopardized if we do, but I have permission to tell a little bit. :)

Here's what we know - we are traveling to a great region that we can't name to pursue the adoption of an amazing little kid! Matt will be a brother! We were initially terrified of adding an 'older' child (so ridiculous that 4 and 5 year olds are considered "old") to our family but God has made it very clear that His plans are the best ones. We are obviously thrilled that we are moving so fast and have such a wonderful little one on the other end. We are in love with this age child and now see them everywhere - watching how they act and play and trying to see our little one in their eyes. Our God is just amazing - that He's gotten us this far and is continuing to work all things together for good for our family!

We just received our final travel contracts by email from LMI so our dossier is through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the region where it needs to be. Work on our LOI has begun - two to three weeks sooner than we thought! Processing the LOI can take a while, and judges are on summer vacation, so in the meantime LMI has sent the Kazakhstan Travel Guide for our reading pleasure, which should cover the remainder of the process. Our travel/court documents call was last night and we learned what paperwork we now have to do (crazy!)...but at least its all 'third trimester' stuff now.