Oh what an exciting month this has been in our adoption journey!!! We are moving right along in the process, but not without a few road blocks along the way. We have been so busy getting paperwork ready to send to Ethiopia. I never dreamed this would be so hard! We sent our first dossier draft to our adoption case worker last week. This is a huge milestone for us in this process. It just gives us hope that we are almost ready to send everything to Ethiopia and wait to be matched with our daughter. Our caseworker noticed that Matt's passport reads Matt Oaks Robison, instead of his full legal name, Matthew Oaks Robison. This is our little road block that we have stumbled upon. Ethiopia is very strict about all the documents matching exactly, and each will have to have our full names. So, Matt has applied for a renewal passport, and it should be here within 2-3 weeks. We will have to wait to correct our dossier documents until we have his new passport number. This has been very frustrating, but we know this is ALL in God's plan in matching us with the daughter of His choosing.
We have also been concentrating on raising funds to bring "Layla" home. We had a yard sale in Harrodsburg, the first weekend in October, and it was a HUGE success! We were so blessed by all the generous donations we recieved to put in our sale. Thanks to everyone who helped in any way!! We raised over $1,000 in one weekend! Thank the Lord! We have now applied for 2 adoption grants and are praying that we recieve them! We still have around $15,000 to raise counting travel and all adoption fees. Thanks to all who have supported us through monetary funds and prayer. We really appreciate everything! We know that this is God's plan for our family and know that God will provide everything that we need.
Please continue to pray that we raise the remainder of funds needed and we get all our paperwork completed and ready to send by January 1 (date we are shooting for). Also, pray for Layla, and her birth mother who is possibly carrying her now.
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