Mya is coming home!

We are beyond excited to announce that little miss Mya will be in our arms and not just in our hearts in a matter of a few weeks. We received her approval from immigration early this morning and hope to be in Vietnam by the 13th of September. Stay tuned for future travel plans and thank you so much to all of our family, friends, and adoption buddies for providing such support and encouragement throughout this whole process!

New pictures of Mya

Wow! Our little girl is really growing up. It's amazing to me how much the babies change in only a month. We are very grateful to the Hines family for the recent pictures of Mya. She looks wonderful (and quite serious). We are on business day 16 of our wait for an approval from Immigration. It is so hard to predict when we might receive her approval, some cases clear quickly while others seem to drag on for an eternity. Any day now would be just fine with us!!

8 Months Old!

Our sweet little Mya is already 8 months old today! We are praying for a speedy approval so that we may spend Mya's 9 month birthday together!!

Our Journey to Mya

Since I seem to have all this time on my hands, I decided to start working on a slide show of Mya's adoption. I'm pretty new at all this and don't think I will win any awards for this production, but it was fun nonetheless!

Finally Filed!

Maybe wishes really do come true! At 1:26 in the morning, I awoke to find myself thinking about Mya. I debated about whether or not I should stumble out of bed to check my email , just in case. I am so glad I did because we finally received our email from Immigration stating that they had received our file. Now the "official waiting" process can begin! Let's hope and pray that they don't take the full (or more) 60 business days to issue an approval, but I guess "it will take as long as it's going to take!"

Out of the mouths of babes!

Because it was my birthday today, I thought I would take full advantage of my wishing rights. When I had finished, Cade asked me what I had wished for. I didn't want to tell him in case of making my wish null and void, so I asked him to guess what I had wished for. Without skipping a beat, he said "getting Mya" (to which I would neither confirm nor deny). He then proceeded to tell me "Mom, that's not going to happen. It will take as long as it is going to take". How could this little six year old boy be so full of wisdom, more importantly, how can we be related?
It has been 12 weeks and 6 days since Mya's referral and we still don't know if our paperwork has even been filed with Immigration yet. It has been an unbearable wait with much more to come, but Cade is right. It is going to take as long as it's going to take, and there really is nothing that I can do about it but have faith that everything happens for a reason.