I'll do better

Ladybug blanket from our friends
This is a handmade bib made by one of my
Bethany Board Buddies-Thanks.
Cute hoodie from our wonderful friends
More ladybugs-YEAH
We love this brown and pink outfit-too cute

O.K. I'm going to do better about updating. Especially when we have Anna. I still can't believe we are post referral. It is so wonderful to know what our baby looks like. And believe me she is beautiful. We still can't post pictures yet but I promise as soon as we can, I'll have her picture up.

We celebrated our 1 month anniversary/17 month LID on Monday. We couldn't believe it has only been a month. It feels like it has been four months since we got our referral. People would say that the wait up to referral was very hard but the wait after referral till travel is a killer. And I thought, 'No way, I'll be fine once I know she exist. The waiting after referral till travel will go quickly." Well let me tell you.....THEY WERE RIGHT!!! It is a killer knowing she is growing up with out her mommy and baba (for those of you who don't know baba is daddy in Chinese; and is what Scott wants Anna to call him). She will be 15 months on Monday. We would love an update on her but we are at the orphanage's and China's mercy as to whether we will get any.

We got our USCIS approval last Saturday. We couldn't travel till we got that. We were afraid with Hurricane Gustav that it would delay us getting the approval since the regional office is right outside New Orleans. But it finally came, although the envelope did look like it went through a hurricane. Then we found out Tuesday that we got P.A. (Pre-approval) from China on 9-2-08. Which from our research means that China has our LOI and our dossier in hand and will at some point begin evaluating and checking our dossier and her dossier. We aren't through review yet so it'll be a couple of months before we get our LOA (Letter of Approval); but once we get that, things will move pretty quick. Please continue to pray that our dossier will be reviewed quickly and they will approve us without any questions or delays.

Now we are looking forward to October. Why you ask? Well my school is giving us a shower on October 8th (less than 3 weeks :)!!) and then our church is throwing us a shower on October 18th. I posted some pictures of some cute outfits our dear friends gave us for Anna, along with a handmade bib from a Bethany Board buddy. I just wanted to update everyone who checks our blog with what has been happening. We cannot wait to get our precious Anna Meili. Not too long now.

Hugs and kisses.