~LOA~

We received our Letter Of Acceptance (LOA) on 10/31!!!  I couldn't believe it when I got the call.  I had just been in a meeting at work and people were asking if we knew anything new.  I said something like unfortunately no, we were hoping to have our LOA by the end of October.  So now that we haven't received it we probably won't be traveling until March.  Well, guess what my friends...Holt says we will either travel on January 25th or February 15th (assuming all goes smoothly)!!!!!  I cannot even explain how happy we are~we're far beyond excited and can't believe how close we're getting.  We are coming baby girl!!

Since our LOA, we have done another round of paperwork.  We immediately signed our LOA and got it back in the mail to Holt.  The other paperwork we have been doing is for the I800, this is to start finalizing Ava's adoption.  We are really working fast through this paperwork 1. because we can't wait to meet Ava!! 2. we are hoping to get past the US paperwork before the holidays which could slow down the process.  The I800 went in the mail today.  I refuse to be the holdup in getting to our baby girl faster :)