And the road changes again...

I don't even know where to begin...

Here is the quick and dirty...

We have learned that we have been issued a letter of invitation to travel to Kazakhstan.  This was crazy news as we had no idea and were in the process of selecting a different program.  Come to find out, the LOI (letter of invitation) was issued in December and gave us a travel window of 12/25/09 - 4/25/10.  CRAZINESS!!!  So, on top of exploring other options, we have been exploring the possibillity of completing our Kazakhstan adoption...and completing it quickly!  Dustin and I have been running around frantically for the last week trying to figure out all the what ifs?!?!

We have applied for our visa and are working on possible travel arrangements.  We were still waiting on an updated FBI approval (since January) and we received news just a little while ago that we are good to go!  FBI is overnighting us the letter today and we will have it tomorrow!!!

It is ABSOLUTELY CRAZY how things seem to be falling in to place to make this happen for us.  We are still crossing our fingers as there are constantly things that could go wrong, but we are very hopeful!

Thanks to EVERYONE for the outpouring of support, it means so much to us.

I want to send a special shout out to all the people that we've never met, but who have reached out to us!  It is comforting to hear things from people that do know what we are going though!  I cannot tell you how much all of the advice and encouragement mean!  Thank you!

-Cortney