Dossier documents mailed!!

Well, all of our dossier documents are now on their way to our agency. Lots of them have already been reviewed. They will be "apostilled" (a seal required on documents going through legal processes in Hague convention countries) and then mailed on to Peru!!! This is all very exciting! Once the documents arrive in Peru, they will be translated and then reviewed for approval. We are praying that they will be mailed very soon (in the next couple of weeks) and translated quickly. It isn't just for our own joy that we need this stuff to be done quickly, it is all on a timeline and if our paperwork isn't reviewed within three months we will have to re-do our medicals (bloodwork, physicals, all of it.) We are waiting on the report from the pyschologist, and praying for him to get that done speedily as well. We would hate to have to re-do all of that stuff!! It was a doozy getting bloodwork and TB skin tests for three boys, let me tell you!!! Since it has already been 2 weeks since our bloodwork, the clock is ticking!

Life has been moving along busily, as always. The boys were in a one mile benefit race on Saturday. Afterwards, Isaac, in his whiny voice, asked me when I was going to buy him a trophy. lol He wanted a trophy so bad!!
Josiah had his last basketball game shortly after the race, so we left before they handed out awards at the race, assuming that in the huge mix of kids racing, ours probably didn't get a trophy. After the basketball game, they handed out trophies for the b-ball players. Since Isaac didn't play B-ball, he then began crying because he didn't get a trophy, yet again.

That evening, as we were driving home from a family day out to the zoo, I got a call from someone telling me they had left Isaac's trophy from the race on our porch. He had won second place in his age bracket! He was beyond excited when he found out! He had his own trophy!

We have been busy with numerous fundraisers lately. We had a chicken dinner sale last week and raised $1200 Several people pitched in to deliver dinners, make desserts, and sell dinners. It was such a blessing to have the help!
We have a garage sale coming up this weekend, and have been selling t-shirts to raise money. We have a ways to go, but we have also come a long way! God has provided abundantly.

(I cannot find my pic of Isaac with his trophy! Guess I'll have to take another!)

Zoo Trip

(The ostrich would try to grab the boy's shoes. They got a kick out of that!)

All in all, things are going well. We are very excited about the things ahead, and praying for all things to move ahead speedily, without a hitch! We are praying for God to lead us to the child he has for us, and that we'll have them in our arms soon!