Our Forever Family Addition

Well we started packing for our trip today. We got most of Lanie's stuff packed. We haven't gotten to our stuff yet. We hope we have enough medical supplies to take with us. Their is a list a mile long that we need to take. We have 12 days to finish our packing and get everything in order for the trip. It is almost here.

Well we have some things locked in. First we got our Embassy appointment set up for the 20th of August. Then we were able to lock in our flights. We depart Huntsville airport at 12:17 August 7th and arrive back in Huntsville on the 22nd of August. We had to push back our leaving date from the 31st of July because of scheduling flights and Embassy appointments. But that is okay, we leave 3 weeks from today. We were told Lanie will join us on Monday, August 10th. That will be her gotcha date.

We got word from our adoption agency yesterday that we were approved for travel. Michelle has to set up our embassy appointment and then we will know when we can return. It is usually the second week we are there. We have to get a passport and visa for Lanie. It won't be long now.

We got our visas back today from Washington. We are now ready to travel to China. All we need is our travel approval and we are off. We are still shooting for the end of the month. Hope it works out in our favor. Lanie will be in our arms soon. She looks like a happy healthy child. She just needs some spoiling. We can handle that.

We received some updated photos and information on Lanie today. They sent some pictures of her birthday and her updated measurements so we could buy her some clothes and shoes. She has really grown and is a beautiful girl, as you can see from her pictures. She does not seem to show any signs of ever having heart surgery. She is 36" tall and weighs about 28 1/2 pounds. She is just a normal little girl.

Well we sent our passports to a lady who specializes in getting visas for people. We sent them last Saturday, June 27th. We hope to get them back this week some time. We are still waiting for permission to travel. Hopefully we will get permission this week or next. We should still be on track to leave for China July 31st. More later.