We were assigned a COURT DATE!!!
February 10th, 2011
We were so excited to get this news!!! We had hoped back in the summer to be traveling by now, but the Lord knows Best! Because our travel is in February, not high-traffic December, our plane tickets are not too expensive! We were able to use SkyMiles for Chris's ticket!! Awesome!! So Excited!!
Please pray for our travel. This first trip is required by the Ethiopian government. We will go to Court on the 10th and testify before the judge of our intention of adopting our son. This judge will decide if we can bring our son home to our family. Because this trip will be a lot of waiting and sitting and traveling, Caleb will not join us on this trip.
Once we are home from this trip, it will take anywhere from 4-6 and possibly 8 weeks to get all the paperwork completed to finalize the adoption and prepare his visa and passport to come to the States. Then we will be invited to come to the Embassy appointment. This will be our second trip. Caleb will definitely be with us for this trip!! AND, we'll come home as a Family of Four! God is so Good!