Trying to keep up

Ok, it is official that we are horrible bloggers. Even with the numerous amounts of requests it has taken well over a month to update our blog. Allot has changed since our last update. As most everyone knows we had originally started the process to adopt from Russia. Well....We are know deep in the process of a Lithuanian adoption. We receive emails periodically about waiting children and one day received one with two children(not related) that we absolutely fell in love with! A 3 year old little girl by the name of Vikoryija & and a 2 year old little boy that we have nicknamed little E since we cannot pronounce his name. We immediately called out case worker Lisa(who is fantastic) and told her we wanted to pursue one of these two children. Within the hour Lisa responded back and we had an appointment with her at the end of the week to discuss the children and to have our first Couple's interview.

We walked into our meeting nervous and not knowing what to expect. We discussed the children and decided that we would like to pursue both children knowing that we could only get one. We went from 5mph to 105mph! The next week we had our home study(which we passed) and began getting the 150,000 thousand forms we needed certified, notarized, & state sealed. Teri has been a trooper as she is the organizer & list keeper of all that we have to get done. With all of that being said there was a May 31st deadline on these children and we did not make it. However, we knew we did not have time to complete it all before the deadline. We did it to show the country that we were serious about these children and that if by chance they were still available we could pursue them. As of today June 6th it is our understanding that both children are still available. We have submitted our immigrations paperwork and will be waiting to hear back. We feel confident that by the end of June we will be ready to adopt from Lithuania with all of our paperwork turned in! We were told by Lisa yesterday that there could be a very good chance that we could be locked in with one of these beautiful children by the second or third week in June. Our prayer is even if these our not supposed to be our children that they find loving and caring homes. That is really what this journey is all about. LOVE. Please stay tuned as I am going to try and update another blog this evening to update everyone on our strides for adoption 5 k! Pictures will be posted as well!

Love,

Ryan & Teri