Praise the Lord --- ONE MORE STEP

Well what another joyous day!!! If you will remember - our home study arrived at our state level DHS office last Friday morning. They were given an airbill to forward it to our USCIS office in Metairie, LA so needless to say I have wore the FedEx website out checking to see if it had been sent yet or not. MUCH to my surprise today JUST as I had started a 3:30 meeting I clicked on it and low and behold it had been picked up at 3:19 today and is headed for our USCIS office and is scheduled to arrive before 10:30 in the morning. This is our final step domestically then it's on to the Ukraine. I have sent all of our paperwork to the Ukraine tonight hoping they will feel our pain and start translation for us while we are waiting on the last approval from customs and immigrations.

In addition, we received two e-mails from her mother today - always makes us very happy to get e-mails from her. She went to see Ivanna yesterday and she was doing well and she also sent us a little movie of Ivanna it wasn't very clear but we were certainly thrilled to have it I think my husband and I have watching it numerous times already. That little girl will be home before we know it and oh how she will blossom and shine. She has no idea how many people are waiting to see her and how many lives she has touched already.

Continue saying prayers and that USCIS works as quickly as what we have been told they do and this will be over in a minute.

The video of Ivanna is on our FB page. By the way you if you don't have a FB page you really need to get one. :D