3 days!!!!!!

We leave for China Tuesday. There is still so much to do at our house before we leave. Finish odds and ins in his room get Lily's room set back up. Pack, clean, transfer animals to their caregivers for the almost 3 weeks we are gone and we have 3 days to finish all of this. BUT ABOVE ALL WE ARE SUPER EXICTED TO BE GETIING JACOB THE 21ST and we can't wait to travel with are amazing travel group and great friends the Rice's, Perry's and Yingling's.

TA TA TA TA!!!

Can you hear us screaming yet we recieved an email from our agency informing us we leave for China January 19 and return February 5th thats just a little over 2 weeks and we will have the Prince. Finally the journey to the Prince is just about complete.

LOA IS HERE!!

Our LOA arrived today was signed and sent to Texas and back to case manager. Now we wait for I-800 approval then we can be given a TA. We are hoping to travel by the end of January.

LOA LOA LOA

We are thrilled to announce that our LOA is on its way! Can you hear us screaming from excitement yet we are thrilled to know that we are one step closer to our Prince Jacob. We are about 12 weeks out from traveling to meet Jacob that means late January we should be on a plane to China. Our friends the Rice's, Perry's, and Yingling's also received their LOA's congrats to you guys as well we are thrilled for you too!!

WE HAVE A LID!!!

Finally, we have a LID. It is 9/2/2009. This is the same day we received Lily's referral last year. September 2nd will always be a special day for our family. Our case manager still thinks it will be sometime in January before we travel. One more step closer to my brother

Dossier To China

We are Dossier To China as of yesterday. It offical our paper are on their way to China. Next step a Log in date hoping it comes soon so we can go and get my brother. Over the moon exicted.

Documents Complete

Words from Mom:
Our documents have been authenticated by the Chinese Consulate in Washington, DC and are on their way back to us. By tomorrow afternoon, our dossier will be on it's way to our agency to be prepared for China. The next group of dossiers to be sent to China will be on Monday, August 31st and ours will be in this group. Now the wait begins!

I797C Approval

We returned home from the beach today and in the mail was our I 797C approval. This means that the United States Immigration has given us permission to adopt a foreign born citizen. This was the last document that we needed. Monday our papers will be in Raleigh to be authenticated and then on to Washington to the Secretary of State, next to the Chinese Consulate in DC, then our dossier can be sent to China. One more step closer to bring home my brother. Yay

Fingerprints are finished.

We received our fingerprinting appointment in the mail this week for August 12th. We will be out of town and cannot be there.so yesterday my parents and I were in Charlotte today and thought we would go by the Application Center and just ask if they would do it today. Well, they did! They were very accommodating to us. This is a big relief to have this part of the process complete. We are on step closer to my little brother. YAY!

One Step Closer

We recieved our homestudy today and will be mailing the I-800A to the USCIS office tomorrow to get their on Monday morning. We are one step closer to bring the Prince home YAY!