A Reflection of Our Life

While we wait for our dossier to head to Africa, here is a little bit of entertainment for you.  This is actually a very good reflection of our lives, except Luke is not bald. =)  (Make sure you pause the music on the right side so you can hear the video.)

In D.C.

Now our dossier waits for it approval or "Letter of Non-objection" at the Rwanda Embassy in Washington D.C.  This should take a couple weeks, then it will be on its way to Rwanda.  Yay!

S.O.S. Again

Today we took another trip to the Secretary of State.  When our family coordinator was going through our dossier, she found a wrong date.  So we fixed it yesterday, had it certified today, and it's on its way to our agency right now.  I am very thankful she found this error.  I went through our dossier many times, and missed it.  Better to have it fixed now than have this problem when our papers are in Rwanda.  Even if we do have to make more corrections, I'd do it all over again.  Our babies are worth every bit of effort!

S.O.S.

Here are some pictures of our trip to the Secretary of State today.  There aren't very many children in the downtown area, so we made lots of friends.  I took the picture with the church because K was convinced it was a castle and a princess lived there.  So I took a picture of my princess standing in front of the castle. =)

Our dossier is now in the hands of the post office, and our agency should have it in their hands tomorrow. 

The Golden Ticket

One of my favorite movies is "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (both versions)." In this movie everyone wants a golden ticket to get into the factory and some went to great feats to actually get that ticket. I feel like our approval from the USCIS is like that golden ticket, because it tells me I can bring my kids back into this country. And now I sit like Charlie, in awe that I am now actually holding this golden ticket in my hand. I feel like it has taken forever to get to this point. We started this paper chase December 1st, 2009.

Tomorrow, 1st thing I will have a copy of this approval letter certified at the Secretary of State, then add it to the rest of our paperwork (dossier), and overnight it to our agency. Our medicals expire next Tuesday, please pray that this will not be a problem.

In the mean time...YAY...I'm so excited we finally made it to this point. Our dossier is SO close to Rwanda. For those of you wondering, I checked my mail 5 times today, and attempted to watch out the window for the mail man for the last 4 hours (too many trees in the way).

Mail Man Stalker

And so, for 2 weeks now I have obsessively gotten my mail, in hopes that our approval from US immigration would be there. Well, my obsession has not paid off! Still nothing. Yesterday I literally stalked our mail man as I sat and watched him fill the boxes. Thankfully he was very nice and understanding about it, he was even more understanding once I explained what I was waiting for. Although I'm sure he went home yesterday to tell his family about this crazy girl waiting for him. So today as I went to the mail box today, my blood pressure was extremely high, and the anticipation great, "maybe today was the day."

Since the mail failed me again, I decided to call USCIS to find out the status of our case. I guess we were recommended for approval on May 28th, it usually takes 5 days to process after that. The very nice lady told me we should have it any day, and if we do not have it by Friday, to call our case officer, whom she also gave me the info for. This is good news! In the mean time, I will continue to stock my mail man until we get our approval! =)

Garage Sale

This last weekend was our garage sale and bake sale to help raise money for our adoption. God blessed us with an unbelievable amount of donations for the garage sale and bake sale. We were reminded at how many wonderful people God has placed in our lives! The garage sale was slow, I guess there were 75 other garage sale ads in our small town, but despite how slow we felt it was, God blessed us more than we deserved!