Our First Blog!

Hello Family & Friends,
Wow! This is so exciting! I am blogging!

We decided to use The Blog Spot as a place where you can check in on our adoption progress. We are also very hopeful that we can add information to our site while we are in Russia, so you can get up-to-date information on how our adoption is going. We will try to update you as often as possible and to add pictures, etc. as well.

So, for my first blog, I should update everyone on where we are in this big adventure. Most of you know that we got "the call" on June 14th from our adoption agency. They asked us to consider two girls (sisters) for adoption. We received pictures of them and absolutely fell in love with them! This past Monday (June 25th), we received their medical reports. We have some slight concerns, but overall, the girls seem to be very healthy! We will be visiting with a pediatrician on Friday (June 29th) to get her professional opinion on the health of these two girls. If all goes well with the pediatrician, we will continue to march on in this process. At this point, Shane and I can't find any reason to not accept these girls, though. We both are so excited about them and are dreaming of the day when we can bring them home!

Regarding our first trip to Russia...we will most likely be travelling in July. We are waiting for an official invitation to travel. Once we get the invite with travel dates, we will pass along that information.

At this point, we will not put the girls' pictures on the web. We want to make sure that everything is going to happen. Once it seems as though we are going to make this official, we will pass along more details about the girls, such as: pictures, names, ages, etc.

Please keep us in your prayers through this process. It's scary and exciting all at the same time. There are so many "unknowns" for us.....it's quite the "leap of faith"....but we feel God's presence through all of this and know that He is watching over us. Please also pray for these two girls, along with all of the orphans in Russia. They have a tough life and they could certainly use our prayers.

We'll keep you posted as everything occurs! Have a GREAT Day!