Day 3...SDA!

This morning at 9:00am local time (1:00am our time), Jeff met with the adoption authorities.  I was home praying because I could not sleep knowing Jeff was at a very important appointment.  At 2:30am our time, I could not stand it any longer so I called my husband to see how his appointment went.   He was traveling to the train station with his wonderful driver, Nikko, to buy train tickets!!!  and that can only mean one thing...Jeff got the referral to adopt our girls!!!!!  Praise God!!!!!

I even got to talk to Nikko on the phone for just a second and he assured me that all was going well and that our translator in-region, Sasha, will take good care of my family during the in-region adoption process!  What a treat to finally get to visit with Nikko!

The adoption authorities always have the childrens' baby pictures in their file and will almost never, not on your life, not even if you beg, sometimes trade them for a more recent picture if you have one.  We happen to have one pretty recent, but very blurry, picture of each of the girls.  I used our Picasa program to re-touch the pictures as best I could to try to take out some of the blurriness and printed off two little, a-little-less-blurry, wallet-sized pictures that Jeff could ask to trade with.  He asked and they agreed to trade!!!!!!  What a direct answer to a specific prayer!  Thank You, Father!!

Look at my babies!!!!!!

"Jaclyn"

 

"Harper"

These are the very first clear pictures we have ever seen of our girls.  WOW!!!  Look at them!  Sweet pictures of baby perfection if you ask this momma!  I cannot wait to hold them and show them what a mommies love is all about.  Jeff will get to meet and hold our precious girls on Friday!  What a day that will be!!!

We have picked out the girls names but that deserves a post all of it's own.  Soon, I promise! 

Below are a few pictures outside the 'Adoption Authority' building:

Church across the street from the 'Adoption Authority' building

Soaking wet from the downpour of rain yesterday!