Dosssier is done!!!

Well folks, our dossier was mailed out yesterday and it arrived today at our agency at 9:50am. We have worked for months collecting all the papers needed to put this together. We have gone to Cincinnati and Columbus to get finger printed and certified. We have sent away for papers from Indiana, met with a social worker on several occasion, and got to know Dayton all around much better. All so we could send a fat stack of papers to Ethiopia to get our little girl.

Along with our huge stack of papers we also sent a check for $7,700. That is huge, and would not be possible with out the help of all of you. We are so thankful that we have had so many friends and family support us at our fund raisers. We are so blessed by your support and prayers. God is so good. It is amazing that he has provided almost down to the penny for each payment.

So, now our paperwork will be triple checked by our agency. Then it is reviewed by the Ethiopian embassy. Our prayer is that it will be sent to Ethiopia on Friday. Once that happens we will move (officially) out of the "paper chase" phase into what is called DTE (dossier to Ethiopia).  Then we wait. We will go on a waiting list until our daughter is available. When our little girl is ready we will receive a referral with a picture. Once we accept our referral we send our last payment and begin working on our travel plans. We will go over there twice. The first visit will be for court, and we will meet our baby. Then we have to go back a few weeks later to get her. There is still a long road ahead in our journey, but we are making progress. We are excited to see what God has planned for the months ahead. We ask for your prayers for us as we continue. For right now though we are so excited to hit this huge adoption milestone!!