Introducing Lynleigh Ren

I know that many of you have been dying to see our sweet baby girl so, here she is! We were given permission to post her pic to our blog. I can't give you much info on her except that she is 19 months old. Please continue to pray with us as we patiently wait to travel.

11/10/10

We finally got the paperwork from the USCIS that we were waiting on! Now, it's enroute to be certified by the state. Once that returns, we will send all of our paperwork to the Chinese Embassy in the US and they will authinicate it. When this is complete, we will send our paperwork to Holt and they will ship it to China. Once the Chinese give us a Log In Date (LID) then we can be matched! Please pray for our paperwork to make it to its final destination ok!

11.4.10

Waiting is so hard!!!!!!!!! We have been waiting since the beginning of October to hear about our approval on our finger prints! I finally called today! The US has approved us and our paper work is in the mail! I can't wait to get home and check the mail. Once that's in and we get it certified, we can send it to Holt and they will send it to China. It seems like this has been the longest process but I know next to most, it's not long at all! Please be praying for us a speedy process with our paper work and maybe we could have a picture of Baby China for Christmas!

Update!

Sorry I haven't updated in a while! Not much has been going on other than waiting, waiting, waiting! I can tell you that we got our appointments to be finger printed by the FBI. We will go on Oct. 5th. Hopefully, since we're goody two shoes, it won't take long to process that and we can be on to our next step. We will send our dossier in and it will head to China. Once we get a log in date (LID) we will be eligable for a match. I'm praying that we have a picture of our sweet little girl by Christmas!

8/11/10

We are almost done with our Dossier! If it hasn't been one thing, it's been another with getting our paper work completed and ready to send in! But today, lots happened. I mailed our Dossier fee today! Then sent off two things that needed to be certified. Hopefully, they will return soon! Then when I got home, Tony's passport finally arrived! Now I can send off for our I800 and we can be fingerprinted by the FBI. Once that is clear we will be able to send our Dossier in. This feels like it is taking forever. However, I know that it is all in God's timing. It doesn't matter how much I try to rush HIM, he always wins out in the end! This process has been a great lesson for me on focusing more on HIS ways rather than mine. Trusting that God will provide for this adoption has really been hard but I know that he wouldn't have brought us this far if it wasn't his will! He would have closed all of the doors a long time ago!

Please be in prayer as we finish these last few details and that we will be able to praise him for his timing and not try to manipulate him into ours!

APPROVED!

I talked to Holt this afternoon and.....we've been approved for the China Child of Promise program! Tony picked up our home study from the social worker this after noon and now it's time to start getting everything authinicated! I can't believe we are so close to sending out dossier to China! I'm praying that God will take care of everything (of course he will) and we can send or dossier to China by the end of the summer! Please pray that he shows favor on these next few weeks and everything processes smoothly! I will hopefully be posting more frequently since things are starting to roll!

Home Study

I will be calling our social worker this afternoon to set up a time to meet and finalize the home study! I can't believe it's finally time to send it off! I can't wait and I will keep you posted!