This Is It!!!

     I am just going to cut to the chase here and come right out with it,  Masha is available to be adopted as of July, 2011!  We just got the official news late this afternoon.   We have not even gotten to tell the girls yet since they are at gymnastics right now, but I am sure there will be some screaming as soon as they know.  Liz and I both feel like 100lbs has been lifted off our shoulders.  This is the news we have been waiting on since the day Masha left, and now we almost have all the puzzle pieces in place to go and get her. If everything goes perfect we could be traveling to go get her Mid October, and have her home by Thanksgiving.  What a gift for the Holiday.
    It would not be life though if everything went perfect today.  I am pretty sure that is only reserved for heaven.  Today was also a frustrating day at the same time. We, Liz mostly, has been all over our paper work from the start.  Almost everything is done and turned in with only two things left to be sent.  Believe it or not a letter that took 3 weeks to get got lost by Virginia(the State) that was sent to get Notarized, and the FBI lost our finger prints.   We were hoping to send everything to the Ukraine on Thursday with another family, which would not only saved us some money but also sped the process up a couple of weeks.  I personally did not expect everything in the paperwork arena to go smoothly so it was not such a big deal to me.  I have been just waiting for a hiccup at some point, and here is our first one.  Hopefully this will be the only one for awhile.
  On a much brighter note we have gotten a significant amount of contact with Masha.   We have received 3 letters from her to date, Liz has talked with her on the phone about every third day, and she has received two packages we sent her with another on the way.  Masha's letters are very sweet. She mostly talks about how much she misses both the little girls, and how much she loves our family.  I never thought she would really send letters, but we have gotten one every 2 weeks.  I hope she keeps this up until we get her home.  It makes going to the mailbox exciting every afternoon. 

First Day of School is a Big Holiday in Ukraine.

We sent Flowers and a Bear.