The race is on...

Well, we received a packet in the mail today with all the original paperwork for the kids and got a little surprise with it. A few more pictures of our precious little ones!! We are just counting down the days until we are united with our kids!! We want to say thank you to everyone who called and sent us emails today! We really appreciate the encouragement and support and are overwhelmed by your love. Thank you!
So the race is on the get all the paperwork in order. I got the Visa and FBI prints notarized today and sent a few checks to CHI. Tomorrow I am off to Montgomery (4hr drive) to get some paperwork apostilled and then onto Atlanta (another 3hr drive) where I will stay the night with my dear friend Kate and her husband. Then Thursday morning I have an appointment with the Colombian Consulate to get our visas.
Please pray that everything goes smoothly! We leave in 11 days!! WoooHooo!

Great weekend!

Well, my wonderful husband surprised me with a last minute trip to New York this weekend for our 6 yr annivesary! He had a meeting for work and deceided it would be fun to have our last excursion just the 2 of us before kids. It was so much fun! We can't wait to start our next adventure in life with our 3 beautiful kids, but we sure are going to miss all the time we have had just the 2 of us. What a blessing it has been!!

Meet our Kids!!!!!!

April 21st at 10:30am we are meeting our kids!!!!! 2 weeks !!! I can't believe it. It is really happening and we are so excited. We have so much to do in 2 weeks! AAHHHH!!
So, now that we have the date here are the pictures of our beautiful children!



Our Baby Yurley Estefani- 18 months old

Our Son Jhon Fredy- 3 3/4 years old

Our Oldest Leidy Mireya- 8 1/2 years old


Aren't they Precious! We are in Love!!!

Late night info...

I talked with Julie this afternoon and she was going to send the referral letter and birth certificate info around 5pm. Well, we played email tag until 9pm because I wasn't getting the info then she was in the middle of things, so finally we got the official referral letter!!!! Yeah, and we also got just a bit more information that answers a few things we were wondering about. So we are writing the acceptance letter and will hopefully talk with Julie tomorrow to find out what else we need to do. We are so excited!!!!!!

Today is the day!!!

Today we received the phone call that we have been waiting for. It has been made official. We are so excited. The paperwork should be here next Tuesday and we should be travelling within 4 weeks to Bogota. Thank you all so much for all your prayers and encouragement. God has everything perfect in His timing and I know I sometimes don't know why, but this journey has been incredible and I am grateful for all of you who have been walking beside this journey with Jim and myself!!

Woo Hoo!!! And the journey continues...

Hey Hollis's. Looks like we may be seeing you down there!!!

Quick update

I finally have a chance to update you guys. Julie called today and said that we don't have the official assignment yet. They had a meeting yesterday before the office closed for Holy week and she is hoping that they made the assignment then, but we won't know until the end of next week. We are going crazy waiting. Please continue to pray for things to happen. We know that they will in Gods timing but we are dying here..... Thanks for the encouraging words and emails. They really do uplift and encourage me! For those of you who don't know we have moved and even though it is just 10 min down the road, we can't get high speed internet so we are still trying to figure out what to do. I have not had Internet for the past week and a half and it is driving me bonkers. Hopefully I will have exciting news next week!

Paperwork Finally in Bogota!

So after 3 long, frustrating weeks, they finally returned our paperwork back to Bogota!!! What a relief! Sorry we haven't said much lately, but we have been a little scared of why they didn't want to send our stuff back to Bogota and then they needed proof that we requested these children and it has been a struggle to get them to cooperate. So, it is finally there and with the kids information! They are apparently having a meeting tomorrow and if all the kids paperwork is together then they can hopefully make the official referral then and we should hear something by the end of next week. If they don't have all the paperwork for the kids together then who knows how long it could take them to gather it together. So please join with us in praying that all the information is up to date and ready to go so we can make it official and travel soon!