We FINALLY got IT!!!

That's right! We finally got our I-171H FAVORABLE DETERMINATION LETTER!!! WOOHOO!!!
We are SOOOOOO excited!!

I was expecting it to come by US Mail, so I really thought that it wouldn't be here until Thursday or Friday.  My friend Aimee came over today to help me pick out clothes for our family picture and when I opened the door to let her in.... there it was laying on my doorstep in a Fed Ex envelope!!!! I couldn't believe that there it was.... the letter we have been waiting for.... for months and months. Kinda crazy.  It's weird.... I think yesterday was the day that I really just let God have the situation... I was talking to my bff's after workout and one of my bff's has been on a Let's Start Talking trip to China for the last 2 weeks and so she was asking what was up with Little Man while she had been gone..... and I told her that we were still waiting on this crazy piece of paper.... And I just said (and finally believed it), you know, I can call CIS everyday, multiple times a day, and I can beg and plead, and I can call my Senator/Congressman, etc.... but it's not gonna get done until God has done His business getting us ready and getting Little Man ready.... Maybe Little Man is still in his village.... who knows.... but me, trying to control the government and this letter, well it's just not gonna happen until God has everything in place.  And I just finally believed what I had been saying for so long.  It was relieving really.  After I left workout Derek called me and told me that he had finally just received an email receipt (that the email had been opened) of the documents we had mailed our caseworker last Wednesday. (This was the following Tuesday).  Late Tuesday afternoon was when we found out that it had been sent out.... And now it's Wednesday and we have it!!!

So it will be in the mail to Kate in New York tomorrow along with my updated medical records (they had expired).  This may be way optimistic.... but I am hoping we are on that waitlist sometime next week.

Here's a pic that Aimee took when I got the letter! I was home by myself...

And then at 8:30 we finally got everyone together for a family pic! Brooks and Ellison are really cracking up at something.... I think Dad trying to run to get in the pic!