Adoption Update

So, here is the downlow............ups & downs

• 2nd week of December we received our letter from Homeland Security to go for our fingerprinting. So, we went the third week of December. Fingerprinting completed. YES!!!
• Now that fingerprinting if completed we are waiting on our I-171. This states we are approved to bring a foreign born child into the US. So, we should receive this at the end of this week or next week. The way I see it - we are on our way to our baby girl....no matter when we get it. It seemed like we were never going to get to this point after the homestudy wait.
• Christmas was fabulous!! Analise received several gifts: clothes, first "horse" bank, praying bunny, a nativity set. It was all so precious and I loved opening every single one. It made me think of next year and how different everything will be.....SO exciting...
• The only downer - we have to REDO our medical forms - which means going to Tulsa, going back to the Secretary of State, and resending the information to the Guatemalan Consulate in Houston. It's not so much a downer as much as it is a time consumer....

Well, that is a brief update! Please keep remembering us in prayer for the following:

1. Analise's birth is nearing - please pray for fast, speedy, & safe delivery for Ana and her birthmother.
2. That God will continue to give us grace for patience and understanding that it is all in His timing.
3. Our adoption process will flow SMOOTHLY without any hookups. That our file goes into the right hands, in the right place at the right time.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

"And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me..."--Matt 18:5