NEWS !!!!!!

We finally received our fingerprint approval. Yea! We had to contact our State Senator for help. So a big thank you goes out to him and his staff. Now we are a little closer to getting Davis. I've sent a big package to our adoption agency, which they will audit all the contents to make sure everything is in order. Then it will be sent to the Chinese Consulate and Embassy then on to China. Now the only small problem is our adoption agency only sends the Dossiers to China on the second Friday of each month. So if they don't get our paper work back in time with our Embassy Seals, we have to wait until November for our Dossier to be sent. The adoption agency used to send them as soon as they received everything back from the Embassy but apparently it is too much work. God forbid anyone has to put themselves out. Sounds like some of the State Agency's I used to work for.

We haven't received any pictures of Davis recently because the foundation that he is with does not have any working cameras. The foundation is asking for cameras to be donated to the orphanage. So more than likely we won't have pictures coming to us before we go to China. They had several cameras that are digital, but all are broke. They must be pretty rough on them. So until the next news, please keep your fingers crossed for us that it goes quick.

UPDATE 9/1812007

Well David and I have our shots for the big trip. I did fine with that, but the medicine for Typhoid made me sick every time I took it. And I do mean sick. I Don't want to do that again. We found out that HomeLand Security may take up to 90 days to process our fingerprints. So I have wrote a letter to Senator Jim Webb, in hopes that he can pull a few strings and get it completed. Then maybe we can get this wrapped up. The problem hasn't been with China it's been my home State of Virginia mainly. So please keep us in your thoughts.

Update 9/5/07

We are getting our shots for travel on Friday morning and our fingerprints will finally be done on saturday. It's one more step ahead. We understand there will be more paper work to fill out once it gets closer. The only thing I don't like is it will be cold there when we go. I hear it is REALLY cold in the winter there. Most of the people don't have heat like we do here. David might have two babie's on his hands.


Cindi