One down, a lot more to go

We hit another small milestone today... we sent in the last portion of our Gladney application! We will not be officially accepted into Gladney's program until our home study is completed and approved, but it was still a huge blessing to get it all done in just under 3 weeks.

So here is where we are at now:
1. We are waiting to have our home study scheduled - which is taking quite awhile we've been told. We are expecting to hear from them in the next three weeks or so.
2. We are working on our dossier - which is all of the paperwork that will be sent to Ethiopia.

Once our home study is complete it will be sent to Citizenship and Immigration Services and we - and all of our housemates - will be scheduled for fingerprinting. Once we receive our CIS approval our dossier can be sent over seas. Soon thereafter we will be on the waitlist! That sounded so simple didn't it? ;)

Please continue to pray that this process will keep moving along smoothly. Thanks for all of your concern and prayers!

We sent in our first packet of paperwork today!

Yay!!! We got all of our I-600A paperwork together over the weekend and sent it in today. We are so excited! It is so nice to have something out of our hands and into the mail. The only thing that we still have to send to them is our home study - which Gladney will submit for us after it is complete.

So now we are working on finishing our Gladney application, which is moving at a great pace. The application is broken-up into three sections and we have almost completed the first two. We are aiming to finish the third by the end of next week. That part includes all of our physicals - and by all I mean ALL SEVEN of us in the house. Please be praying that all of those appointments and all of that paperwork is completed with ease. The paperwork has to be done just right and there are a lot of details to pay attention to.

V is struggling with his allergies and has a bit of a runny nose. Please pray for him as well.

Love you all.