"Our letter from the DIA"

We are on vacation in Florida this week and I brought my laptop so I could look at my favorite blogs each day which I am addicted to doing and we received the email from the DIA that we are officially matched with our baby. I was so excited this came just 1 day before it had been announced that in order for the US Embassy to consider the official referral you have to receive the letter from the DIA before September, 1. I am so glad that things are moving along and that we made the deadline. My heart breaks for the families that have been told that they will not be able to continue with Vietnam unless some changes are made by September 1. I know how emotional the adoption process is and how challenging it has been, but I pray for the babies that will be affected and the families that have been let down and having to follow different paths. Just remember that it is all about building a family and saving a child. We have to keep the faith....

"Our 10th Anniversary"

Well we celebrated our 10th Anniversary on July 4th. We went to a very nice restaurant Ruth Chris and watched the fireworks. My daughter was very "upset" that we were going to go without her so we let her go and really enjoyed a family night out. We spent the last part of the evening trying to think of a name for our baby girl. We received updated pictures of her and she has really filled out, bright eyed, and beautiful. We had thought about Sophie, but then when we received the updated photos I'm not so sure she looks like a Sophie. It seems harder for me this time to name the baby, with my first one I had names picked out and after 3 days of being in the hospital the nurse came in and said you have to name her now we need to fill out the paperwork. So we decided and that was the perfect name for her. I couldn't think of another name that I would have chosen for her. We also finally received the updated I-171 thank goodness. We are waiting on the paperwork to be processed and moving along in the 7 steps. As usual I'm not sure where we are at, but I know we are moving along....hopefully we will move quickly. I can't wait to meet her....