It's September! We've been waiting for this month since May. We are hoping to hear news of our referrals this month. When we do, we'll probably have 2 to 4 weeks notice to travel to Russia to meet the girls. The trip will take about one week. Hopefully this will happen at the end of September or October.

Then we'll come back home, and depending on the region the girls are from, we'll wait another 1 to 3 months to go back to Russia. On trip #2, we'll go to court and complete all of the necessary embassy paperwork in Moscow. This trip normally lasts 2 to 3 weeks, since there is a 10-day waiting period (in most regions) following court. We are still hopeful we can get this all in before the end of 2007, but we will see what September brings... Stay tuned!

In the meantime, here's a quick slideshow of what we've been up to the last 4.5 years!