short update

Until it is time to go or at least close to time there won't be a lot of updates. This blog is more for when we travel so we can keep in touch with family and friends.
That being said I will get on here every now and then and let you know how things are going.

Holly and I traveled to Nashville last week on a whim. Hoping we could get our fingerprints taken for the USCIS.
The proper procedure is you send in your paperwork, they review it, then send you an appoiontment for when you can have your fingerprints taken.
We didn't have an appoinment but thought we would try it anyway. (just to hurry things along)

Well, they let us do it and we figure we saved at least a month since our appointment would have been late January. Now we wait for the results (that can take anywhere from 10 to 60 days) but when we get those we expect things to really pick up speed.
So pray that the results come quickly and when they do we will let you know. Then things should really start to roll on here. (We think)

It's Christmas time again and your not home...

Holly tells me that since she sent out Christmas cards with this web address in them that I need to be updating the sight for any of you who start checking in on us. But to be honest, I am not really in the mood to be posting right now.
We received a new picture of our baby girl from China this week. (we still aren't allowed to post her picture on here yet)
Bittersweet is the best way to describe how it makes us feel.
We love updates about her but She is already looking older. And we realize everyday that passes is another day we can never get back with her.
We pray that God will somehow let her feel our love even though we are half a world apart right now.
We had a few friends and family members send us the video link that is attached. It is the story of another couple going through the same thing we are, put to the song Merry Christmas by third day. (to see the video, click on the title of this post- "it's Christmas time again and your not home...")
I promise to start doing better about updating here but for this week I think the video says more about how we feel than I could put into words myself.
Please pray that the time will move swiftly for us to bring "Hannah Joy" (we think thats going to be her new name) home were she belongs.
We know that God has a plan in all things and that his ways are not our ways, But this "seeing through a glass darkly" thing can really test you sometimes.
But then again, I guess that is the whole point in the first place.........................