Wow!!!!!

We received our phone call from David, our adoption facilitator, yesterday afternoon that our SDA appointment is NOVEMBER 29th!!!!! Even better, Lori and Russ Walk's appointment is the 30th! The Noel's appointment is December 8th! How cool that these people are the sole reason we are adopting Dima! The Noel's sell vegetables and send out a weekly email of what they have. One day in June they sent an email about the hosting program that the Walk's were organizing. Next thing you know, we are looking at a picture of Dima's smiling face and starting the adoption process.

Since our dates are so close to the Walk's we were going to try and fly out together. We went to the Walk's house to try and get flights together. That was a little more challenging due to the trip being less than 2 weeks!! Dusty and I were able to get flights at a decent rate, but the prices were literally going up every time we clicked on and we left before Lori was able to find some flights. We prayed they could get their flights at a decent rate as they went up over $800 after we booked our flights and the options were not as good as we first looked!!!

We booked our flights on Black Friday to give us a little extra room in case we have any delays. We are to get to Kiev, Ukraine Saturday afternoon. Our appointment is that Monday and it sounds like it's a quick appointment. We then wait for our court date in the city where Dima's orphanage is. We hope that it will be within two weeks as we booked our flights the middle of that week. We trust David's judgement and will continue to trust Sasha when we get to Ukraine. We can't imagine what all Sasha has to do to get these appointments and are so thankful!! In between we will travel to the orphanage and spend only 2 hours a day with Dima at the orphanage. We are so excited to see that smiling face in person! We have so many pictures around the house and have them memorized from looking at them so much.

Yesterday was a really special days in so many ways, I can't even begin to describe. This date used to be a very sad day, but now it means a happy time. It was Dima's birthday and we got the special phone call for our arrival to Ukraine. Those sad days are gone. Dima is my little angel that I dreamed about!

We now have to make sure we've got everything in place for our trip. It is not as much time as we were thinking we'd have, but God had other plans and we are ready!!