LID

We found out that our dossier has been logged into China's system! On August 13th!!! That means we are already on day 13 of our wait for LOA (or LSC - letter seeking confirmation). This will be the next step closer to Josiah, and we are hoping for that in about 2-3 months. For those of you in the adoption community, you understand that every acronym is a reason to celebrate. For all the rest of you, just trust me in knowing that this is a big deal and we made brownies to celebrate!

I've been really bad about taking pictures for the past month, keep forgetting our camera! So no new pictures to post, but I'll work on that some time before summer vacation is over - in less than two weeks! I did get a new picture of Josiah from a travelling mommy. She recently travelled to pick up her daughter and the orphanage gave her a CD full of pictures - two of which had Josiah in them! I think it is OK to share these pictures since they are from the orphanage. I think this is from some time last winter, based on his size and clothing.

Fundraiser!

I (April) am now officially signed up to run in the Portland Marathon on October 4th! I ran a half marathon with my two sisters in June, and decided if I have trained that much, might as well keep on training for the full marathon. This will be my first marathon. We decided to use this marathon as a fund raiser to help bring Josiah home. The marathon is the day before Josiah's second birthday, so we thought what better birthday gift, than being that much closer to being able to give him a family. If you would like to support us in being able to bring him home, you can click on the "chip in" button on the right of this blog. All donations are tax deductible (through our church's adoption fund). If you feel more comfortable sending a check, please email me at apriltranby@hotmail.com and I will tell you how to proceed. Thank you in advance for all your support.

DTC!!!!!!!

We just found out today that our dossier was sent off to China on Friday! This is a huge milestone, and such a relief to have all that paperwork done. It took us about 3 1/2 months to gather all that paperwork, and it was almost lost by Fed Ex. It was sent to the wrong city and delivered a day late, but now it is on the way to China! Now we wait to hear our log in date (the day our dossier is officially logged into China's system). Everything is in China's hands, and the timeline becomes even more unpredictable.

Here's some pictures of our camping trip this weekend. It was really cold on Friday but we still had a great time. Fortunately it warmed up a bit on Saturday and Sunday so we could venture away from the fire a little more.

Are we having fun yet? YES WE ARE!!!

Joel LOVES stoking the fire

Can I play with the fire too?? NOOOOO!

I'll make my own pretend fire.