Animal Crackers for Two

Not much to blog about as we wait and wait..   On the 27 of July it will be a full year of waiting and updating documents.  I am praying ship our dossier have it submitted in July.  Till then we wait and work on raising and saving for trip one..

FBI's completed and off to be authenticated. Hoping these arrive back soon so we can start clicking off the remaining documents off.  Now that we have the most important documents completed it will not be much longer. Happy our dossier is almost completed :O) and this brings us one step closer to submitting.  This has been a long year in waiting since the committed date of 7/25/2017.  We are still in needs of funds for trip one.  So please share and pray for our family as we raised these funds for trip one....

Ellie and friends With the new FBI prints beginning processed and soon to arrive back this week we go to the next step.   All the new documents have been printed up and waiting for signatures and notary seals.  Next updated medicals for both Gary and I, 4 new marriage licenses/with apostles and our home ownership paperwork. One document at a time and we will soon be able to send off our remaining documents for our Dossier.   This is our little fancy pants in the middle. I can not wait to travel this winter to meet her and her brother Clyde.  The kids at home are very excited that this next year both children will be home shortly after Christmas.  Counting the months till we are able to travel to meet the both of them.   During this time we are working on saving the funds for our travel and team fees.  Believe or not I have already started a check list on what we will need to bring with us.  Traveling in the winter many heavier luggage and extra luggage.. Each extra piece will add

Not one of Clyde's better moments.. Today we drove 30 miles to our Local Sheriff station to be finger printed once again.  Praying this will be the last and final time our fingers have to be printed.  Each time you  think it might get easier but my fingers just can not seem to relax.  So far just this adoption we have been ink printed three times and had bio~metric once for USCIS.  With each set of fingerprints means additional costs to our adoption.  The updates alone have added up quickly and we will still have to notarize and apostle each document.  With 60 or so documents it is adding up quickly at $20 a piece for notary and $20 for apostles.  SO a big hunk of our savings we have set back for our trip.  Once our dossier is submitted we will be working towards raising the funds we need to travel with.  And with two new little ones this means two of everything from Airlines, Child's Visas, Children Medicals, Immigration fees and the list goes on and on.  Every dollar so