News of the day is we got our appointments for our imigration background checks. We go next week to be fingerprinted yet again. Then we are just waiting on the finalized I600A to send along with another batch of paperwork to Russia. Once that is there we will be waiting on our court date. We will only have about two weeks notice for that trip.

Keep Caleb in your prayers, he starts testing at St. Judes in the morning but we probably wont know anything about treatment for a few days.

What a week

Well, we have been home for almost a week, and what a week it has been. We nailed down a place to rent while the house is being built, we moved up the close date on our house again, and we started taking down trees on the lot. We also got the news that our little nephew Caleb was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Caleb is the 6year old son of Lesley (Leigh's sister) and Todd Free. They live in Walker LA right now while Todd is finishing up a degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and working on the staff of Walker Baptist Church. The good news is that this is a curable cancer. I didn't even know that they used those words together. But this will be a difficult time for our little man as his body has to undergo treatment. The leave for St. Judes on Tuesday. Once there the team in Memphis will do all of the testing to stage the cancer, and then develop the treatment plan. Please pray for the Free family, especially Caleb. When Caleb was born in China, he was diagnosed with Spina Bifida. While that diagnosis was never confirmed in the US, it was the reason that Todd and Lesley were able to get him because he was considered special needs. God has been holding this child of his all along, and we know he still does. We as humans just hate that Caleb is going to have to go through this. We also know that God will be glorified through this, and we look forward to seeing how others lives can be changed by coming into contact with this wonderful little boy.

As for the rest of our timing, we are working on a new round of paperwork. As soon as it is in Russia they can set us a court date. We will have about two weeks notice of our court date, so we will let you know as soon as we do. But still looking at several months from now.

Have a safe and happy Labor Day weekend.