I finally have a moment to update you on our journey. We received a letter in the mail that we our home study is approved! It was so exciting to get that even though it is still only the beginning. There are going to be so many more moments to be patient and to celebrate.

Now that Arizona has approved us we start working with a different agency that helps us put our Dossier (pronounced DOS- EE- AY) together. The Home Study is a part of this as well as a background check a psychological report, a medical report, financial reports, references, birth certificates, marriage certificates, pictures, our I600A and a whole lot of money :). We just sent off our I600A to the government letting them know we would like to adopt. This takes 2-3 months to come back so we will work on the other things in the mean time. Once it is all gathered it needs to be authenticated and translated to Creole and then it will be sent to Haiti. We are hoping it will be sent by mid September.

Gideon has been asking when we are going to visit him. Our friend let us know that he threw out October as a good month. October sounded good to us too so we are going to meet him on September 30 and will be with him until October 5th. We are flying to Haiti. Who does that? It sounds so crazy. When we get there we get picked up at the airport and are taken straight to the orphanage. While we are there we sleep in a tent and have Gideon with us the whole time.

We get many pictures and updates from fellow adopters. Please go to the website http://www.operationlovethechildrenofhaiti.org/. This is the orphanage Gideon is at. They are teaching him english and about God's love. It is such a blessing. They are getting ready to build on property they were given. They continue to need financial support for the new buildings and to help support the kids in a top-notch way. Samaritan's Purse is building a road to the property which is so exciting. Please check it out!

Speaking of financial help. I have no idea how to make my thermometer rise. That will be for another time that I have a moment to learn. We have been so blessed by several hundred dollars that friends have felt led to send. Wow! It is even cooler then I imagined to partner with you in this endeavor. I know there are a lot of prayers going up as well. Thank you so much!

Please pray for: Gideon to feel our love and God's love, patience for the process, me to not be overwhelmed by all that needs to be done and for a miraculous quickness of everything! We figure we might bring him home the mid to end of 2013.