Well after checking my voicemail about 100 times today I finally broke down and called Ludmilla (we all know how patient I am!) She said that she talked to our facilitator in Kaz said that the Ministry of Education released our dossier yesterday!! This is great news! She said that we will travel in approximately 2 to 2 1/2 weeks. She said that they would let us know our exact travel dates tomorrow. It is finally happening! Thank you all for your prayers and continue to pray that everything moves along smoothly. We can't wait to meet our baby!  I will update you as soon as we hear something about the dates! 

I talked to Ludmilla today and due to the holiday in Kazakhstan, she expects our dossier to be released on Sunday the 28th. Hopefully we will have some good news on Monday. We are praying that there will be no more delays and that we will be able to travel soon to meet our baby. Please continue to pray for us and for this process. We will update you as soon as we hear something.

I talked to Ludmilla again today and she told me that Oct 25,26,27 is a holiday for Kazakhstan and that they MOE will be closed on those days. This applies to us because our dossier was supposed to be released on the 25th. So now they are saying that our dossier will be released on either the 24th or the 29th. This will not change our travel date. She is still saying that if all goes as planned we will travel the week of the 11th. So now we are less than a month away! We are very excited to travel to meet our baby! We are praying that there wont be any more delays. We appreciate everyone's prayers and support and we ask that you keep it up! 

I talked to Ludmilla (our case manager) today and she was able to give me some info as to what the hold up was with our dossier. The ministry of education had told our facilitator in Kaz that the remaining dossiers would be released on the 13 well she assumed this meant all of the dossiers since she was not told otherwise. When she went to pick up the dossiers on the 12 they only released 2 of them saying that because our dossier was submitted after everyone elses they would travel first as this is only fair and that they would release our dossier for travel in the 25 of this month. If our dossier is released on this day as they say it will be, then we should be ready to travel sometime between the 10-17 of November. So we are only delayed approximately 2 weeks. I am trying so hard not to get my hopes up until we actually hear something on the 25 when they release our dossier. We are praying that there will be no more delays and that we will meet our baby soon. Please continue to pray for us.

Well guys we found out Friday night by email that we will not be traveling on the 27th as planned. Kazakhstan decided not to release our dossier for travel until the 26th. After they release our dossier we will have to wait on our LOI (letter of invitation) this is a document from the Kazakhstan government that  has the numbers on it needed to process your visa for travel. It is usually one to two weeks before this is ready. So lord willing we will travel in the middle of November sometime. We were very heartbroken by this news but we know that God has a perfect plan for this adoption and that he has not brought us this far to drop us now. It is in his hands and we know that he has the perfect baby for us and apparently that baby is not yet ready. Our prayer is that we will travel by mid November to meet our baby. We ask that you all continue to pray for us as well and we will update you as soon as we hear something.