Finishing up Paperwork!!!!!

We got a very good suprise today in the mail.  We got our approval letter today from immigration.  We filled out our I-800A paperwork, received our appointment for fingerprints, now we have received our I-797!!! (Those letters and numbers used to mean nothing to me, NOW, they mean A- LOT!!!)
We were not expecting our approval to come so quickly.  We were thinking it would come in a few more weeks.  So, we are about 2 weeks ahead of MY schedule.  (which, you know how my schedule goes... it is not always like everyone else's!) 
We know we are working at God's schedule and in His timing.  HIS timing is always perfect. 
We are just so excited to see God working, and how things are moving quickly.  This is a very long process, with lots of paperwork, stress (on my part), and WAITING.  But it has been so worth it to see God working. 
Little things and Great blessings are happening along the way that continue to show us that GOD is WORKING.

Now that we have our approval, I have to get a few loose ends taken care of.  I need to make sure some paperwork is all signed and ready to go.  I have to make a few copies of some paperwork.  Make sure our passports are ready... and mine came in the other day!!!!!! I was so excited! (you can tell I don't travel much!!! I thought it was sooooo .... cute!  I spent several minutes just staring at the thing!  That moment was also a very exciting moment for me!) 
I also had to gather some pictures to send.  I think I only needed 8 to 10, but I got carried away.  We needed one picture of the front of the house, one of the family, and others of us just living life.  I love my life!!! (They will probably NOT need all of these pictures, but I think I am sending them all anyway!  I really wanted to do more, but I made myself stop!)
Here are our living life photos:  : )

Now, I am off to finish up the rest of the paperwork.  And hopefully I will overnight these wonderful photos along with the paperwork tomorrow.  Then, it will be completely out of my hands.  Our adoption agency will take things from here and send all of our documents to China for us.  Now, the really hard part for us...... to WAIT some more!!!!!

We ask that each of you continue to pray with us for this adoption process.  We are very anxious and very nervous.  We know that God is in control and He has a plan.  He knows our little boy and his needs.  I don't think that I have shared much about his condition on the blog, but many of you know he will need another surgery.  I will share more about this soon.  But for now, God is encouraging us and guiding us.  He has put wonderful people in our path already that have been both and encouragement and a blessing to us as we wait.  We know that God has placed this boy in our lives, and we cannot wait to meet him face to face!