Our Forever Family Addition

Today we met Michelle at the Villa Hope office in Birmingham to sign the Letter of Confirmation. She will send it back to China on Monday. We also went over some final paperwork we needed before we travel. The way Michelle figured it, we hopefully will travel by July 31st. All we need now is permission from China to travel. We should get it in 2 or 3 weeks. We are almost there.

Finally we have our Letter of Confirmation. Michelle called today and told us the good news. We are travelling to Birmingham tomorrow to meet her and sign the letter. She will get it sent to China on Monday. Hopefully in a couple of weeks we will get our permission to travel. We are so excited that the end to our journey is near and we will soon have Lanie with us.

Well, today we had a company from China put together a care package for Lanie. This company specializes in this sort of thing. They are owned by a lady here in America and a lady in China, Kelly and Angela. They are called Ladybugs N Love. They do a wonderful service. It helps a far away family feel a little closer to their child. They do all the shopping and leg work and see that Lanie gets the package. They also offer cameras so they can take pictures of Lanie for us. Can't wait to get those. We will post those as soon as we get them. Still waiting on Letter of Confirmation. Hopefully it will be here soon.

Well we got an email from Michelle at Villa Hope that states we are PRE-APPROVED for our Lanie. They have moved our paper work to another room. The process continues. Our next step is waiting on a letter of Confirmation. When we receive it, we are to sign it and Michelle sends it back to China. Hopefully we will get the LOC in a week or so. After they receive our signed LOC the next step is waiting for approval to travel. So the process is moving along and we are one more step closer. We still feel we should travel around the August time frame. Hopefully!