As of January 6th we now have immigration approval! We submitted our application November 20th, had our fingerprint appointment December 22nd, and approval arrived in the mail January 8th. We are only waiting on a background check which we hope will be in our hands next week. Once we have that all of our paperwork is ready to be apostilled and then be sent to our agency and go for translation. We are getting so close to having everything ready and to begin the wait to meet our daughter. Cayleigh still gets up every morning and asks if we can go get her sister today. I am so glad that her excitement is not fading with the time. There are days that it seems like this adoption is never going to happen with all the paperwork, road bumps in paperwork, and waiting. I keep reminding myself everything happens in God's time and if this is His plan (as we feel it is) He will take care of it and the adoption will happen.

On the family side of things...
I celebrated my birthday on Monday. On Saturday Chris and the kids took me to Garden City to an auction, to get things to work on the house, and for a birthday lunch and ice cream. It was a very enjoyable day and we allowed the kids to get fish. They picked out glofish. They are very bright colored fish. It is fun to watch the kids enjoy the fish and WANT to take care of them. On Tuesday C had an appointment with a plastic surgeon to check the alignment of her lip from her stitches. The surgeon does not believe that surgery will be necessary. She thinks when the swelling is completely out that it will not be noticeably off. PTL!
Signing off until I have more news to report. God Bless!