Wednesday, September 30, 2009

LOA!!

We are absolutely shocked! Our LOA is here! After only 49 days!! Our China facilitator emailed today with some travel documents. I thought that was odd since we are not even close to LOA time, so I called her! "Yes yes! Your LOA is here but I don't have time to talk! Just fill out the paperwork and I'll get back to you!"

So here we are - on the one year anniversary of being a family of FIVE! We are one step closer to being a family of SIX!

Remember a year ago? We had the traumatic adventure of dumping fuel in the ocean and spending the night in Japan! We were so relieved to actually put our feet on American soil and be a family with ALL our girls! Well almost all! Little did we know we had left one there:)

With all of the new Hague requirements, we thought this process would take so much longer. But from the first moment we saw sweet Ella until now has been only 5 months! We are ahead of schedule! We are going to have Ella Claire by Christmas! Can you believe it?? Maybe by Thanksgiving!