Monday, July 16, 2007

Oh Happy Day!

Praise the Lord! We just got back from our Giving and Receiving ceremony. We had to wait forever, but we were able to complete everything! We are so excited. We drove for about 1.5 hours and picked up the vice-director of the orphange.

We drove a short distance from the orphanage to the Provincial Department of Justice and then waited for 1 hour. Finnaly it was our turn to go into the second story office of The Provincial Department of Justice for our ceremony. There were two ladies inside and we signed 10 documents and a huge legal book similar to the logs for property deeds in a courthouse. The book had detailed information on DeanAnne and I and also on Baby Jett. The ladies and the orphanage director all signed the documents as well.



Once we were through, one of the ladies handed us a copy of our adoption decree and we took a picture. That was it. The ceremony lasted 5 minutes at most and we were back on our way to the hotel. Our facilitator will be stopping by to get some documents from us to file with INS for our interview. Hopefully the interview will be Wednesday morning. Everyone please say a prayer for a Wednesday successful interview. If we can leave Wednesday evening, we might possibly make our 7:50pm flight on Friday evening back home. Wouldn't that be awesome. Please pray for things to fall in place for us over the next few days.




J.R. and James: We miss you and love you. Get Me-Ma to let ya'll watch the video of baby Jett.