EMBASSY!!!

Great news!!! We're leaving Thursday to get our boys! We received a phone call Friday morning saying the embassy cleared us to travel. This is the news we've been waiting for since we came back from court. Our actual embassy appointment "Gotcha Day" is Monday, March 28 which is exactly 6 weeks from the day we passed court. And it's my niece's birthday which makes it even better. :)

Our house is CRAZY right now if you can imagine. In fact, when I received the phone call, I had just started painting my bathroom. So today, I guess I'll be finishing that up and then onto cleaning, laundry, and packing.

Friday afternoon, we were scrambling to arrange flights before the weekend. Saturday, Jack spent the day and night with his "Knoxville grandparents." :) He had a blast! They had a cookout in the mountains, played, laughed, collected rocks and sticks, and then went back for a sleepover. What a great way to finish up our Knoxville Spring Break Staycation.

While Jack was gone, Jon and I cleaned the garage, read books and magazines, had a date to Bonefish and Starbucks, did some birthday shopping for Jack, and went to a movie. What a great day!

Back to the trip, we'll be traveling over there with a five and returning with seven! Jack is going with us as well as both of our mothers. So Jon has assigned everyone duties on this trip.

Big Mama - Trip Tutor

Nana - Trip Nurse & Photographer

Jack - Director of Entertainment

Jon - Luggage carrier, security, chaplain, applier of sunscreen (since I am terrible at that, click here), carrier of the toilet paper

Angie - CEO

I think we're a little overwhelmed at this point, so making jokes and laughing about how much we have to do in the next few days is all we can do. :)

On a slightly more serious note, we can't even begin to say how thankful we are to be getting these boys, and getting them so quickly. Pray for the others who traveled with us. Some are waiting on a their MOWA letter, some are waiting for paperwork to be cleared, and some are just waiting on their phone call. There's so much uncertainty and emotional highs and lows through this. After we found out we had snags in our paperwork last week, we were clinging to Jesus. He really is the only constant. Ever. Yesterday, our pastor spoke about how God gives us open doors. Adoption is an open door. WIDE OPEN DOOR. Now that we know that, it's our responsibility to apply it. And we pray that the Lord receives ALL the glory for it. We just reap the benefits.