The tickets have been purchased

We are very excited to have been able to purchase the tickets. We are leaving on July 8th!! We will be coming home on the 23rd. With each step of this process it becomes more and more real. Please pray for Maya as we pick her up and bring her home. Please pray for bonding and attachment to us and acceptance of us as her family. We have been loving her and wanting to bring her home for so long and for her this will all be thrust upon her.

Travel date - July 8th,2009

One of the days we have been waiting for is here. We got the call from our agency and the Travel Approval is here and our re-fingerprinting is back. We are now scheduled to leave the 8th and pick up our daughter on the following Monday. There is a lot of travel prep to do between now and then, but that will help pass the time!! The girls are so exited to finally get to meet Maya.

Waiting on paperwork

On May 22 we went and were fingerprinted and went to the adoption agency to sign paperwork to be sent to the CCAA to submit for travel approval. It takes 2-4 weeks to get the paperwork back on our fingerprinting and approx. the same time for Travel Approval from China on the documents we signed and submitted on the 22nd. As of today no paperwork is back yet. Our adoption agency will check on the status of the fingerprinting documents on Friday (June 12th) if it hasn't shown up yet. We can't get our Consulate appt. for when we are in China until these fingerprinting documents come back to us and we can submit them to China. As far as Travel Approval that will be here anytime. Our tentative travel dates are July 1st or the 8th. I am tending to believe we will leave the 8th.

In the meantime we are preparing our home for Maya, getting so excited to travel, picking up last minute items and gifts to take to China and waiting.

Our verse for Maya is Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.

The wait is nearing an end!!!!!

We have our re-fingerprinting done, papers signed and are just waiting a last document from China. Our tentative travel dates are July 1 or 8th. We are so excited and getting all the prep work done for travel. It is almost a surreal feeling that in a month we will be holding our precious daughter in our arms and bringing her home to her 'forever family'.