update...

Hello All,

So many of you have been so wonderful in praying for us through the past 2 years, and I am sure you’ve been wondering what is going on with the adoption. So, I thought I would send a quick update.

We received some pictures today from the director of the orphanage in Shelechov (Irkutsk, Russia). Anya is holding some photos that we sent to her a few weeks ago. OK, I don’t understand the boy clothing, that is why we send girl clothes to her! Ugh! For those of you who know me, you know this is a HUGE UGH!

In the past 2 days, we’ve gotten several email notes from the director (actually, from her daughter). I can’t tell you how much this has meant to us! To those of you who’ve written recommendation letters for us – THIS IS WHY (see photos below)!! If you haven’t written a recommendation letter for us, and you want to – there is still time! We’re going to Indy on Tuesday to have everything apostilled and mail to Russia.

Things have been stressful this week in trying to get all the recommendations redone, our medical information redone from our doctors, and the Indiana Law with regard to child placing agencies figured out. Thankfully, most of this has been relatively painless. We need to send a pretty big chunk of change over to Russia here soon, and that is a chunk we simply don’t have. So please pray that God will work it all out for us – He always does! We’re considering a fund raiser, but not sure 1-week is enough time to get something together!

We hope to hear something official the first part of September. Our lawyer will be presenting our documents to the Judge (we hope) sometime the first week of September. Please keep us and Anya in your thoughts and prayers – it’s going to be one heck-of-a next few weeks!

Love,
Kathy and Marty