Well, we got our call today from our case manager! She said that Kazakhstan has approved our dossier and that we will be traveling the week of Oct 27!! There are five families waiting to travel with our agency, two of them are traveling the week of Oct 13 and the rest of us are traveling the week of Oct 27. The two who are going the week of Oct 13 turned in their paperwork before the rest of us, so they get to go first which is only fair. We are soo excited! We will get another e mail Oct 3 with our itenerary for our trip. ONLY 4 WEEKS UNTIL WE MEET OUR BABY!! We will keep you all updated as we find out more info. Please keep praying for us that everything will continue to move smoothly.

GOD IS GOOD!!!!

 Well we found out where we will be staying in Kazakhstan. It is the Hotel Dostar-Alem.  It looks really nice on line and we have talked to several families who have stayed there who loved it. It has a turkish spa, bowling alley, beauty salon and two restaurants in it. If you want to check it out online the website is http://www.dostar-alem.kz/eng/index.php . Love you all, Miranda

We got an email from our case manager today and the officials in Kazakhstan have given the ok for families to travel. This is great news! We still probably wont hear anything for a week or so. We are praying that we will get to travel soon. Our dossier was submitted after some of the  other families so they will get to go first of course. That is unless they choose to let us all travel together which is what we are praying for. We should find out within the next week or so where our dossier is in the process. We ask that you all please pray for us that we will be able to travel soon to meet our baby! 

Our journey started with the dream to become parents.We prayed about adoption and knew that if it was God's will he would make it happen. That is when everything started to fall into place for us and we knew without a doubt that this was God's will for our lives.We started our adoption process in November of 2006. After a few delays and lots of work we were finally ready to turn our dossier into Kazakhstan. We submitted our dossier to Kazakhstan in June and are now waiting for an invitation to travel. We were hoping to travel in August but no such luck. There have been some delays in Kazakhstan but according to our case manger these delays have been resolved and we should be recieving our invitation to travel soon. We are hoping to hear something this week. We are anxious to travel so that we can meet our baby. 

We would appreciate it if you all would pray for us and pray that we will be able to travel soon. We will keep you all updated with any new info.