Whew! It's out of our hands now!

YAY!  Our 797C arrived in the mail today.  I've had TONS of anxiety waiting for this piece of paper to arrive.  It arrived at 1:20 PM and we were sending it off to Tallahassee by 2 PM.  The poor guy at the Fed Ex office.  We had 5 Fed Ex envelopes to buy and make sure they went to the right place, that the right forms were in the right envelope, and that everything was perfect.  I was stressed. Thankfully my down to earth, non-stressed hubby was there to make sure it was all perfect.

I'm also very thankful and excited that we are on this journey with our dear friends David and Melissa.  It's been fun doing the paperchase with them.  We are praying that we will be able to travel together too.  (pray for them as they wait to see who their new child is).

So now, we wait. And we pray. We pray that Tallahassee will be QUICK at certifying this ONE form. We pray that the Consulate is quick (we paid for 2 day service) and that everything will be done and at our agency by Wed Jan 25th so then it will all go to China on Friday Jan 27th.  This is our prayer. And our goal.

From there, travel could be 4-6 months. So we're looking at traveling this summer.

It feels good to have the paperwork behind us.  It took us 3 months to get to this point.  Not bad at all. A record for us.  The last 3 adoptions it took us 6 months to get here.  We are so thankful to those who have helped speed up the process. And we LOVE our adoption agency. They have been amazing.

Very excited to see this in the mail today

The form we've been waiting 64 days for (we were approved on day 59)

All of our paperwork on it's way.

I'm so happy we are doing this together with our friends Melissa & David.