Court date!!

We got notice that our court date for Anna Beth's adoption hearing will be the 18th. We will leave on Tuesday, go straight thru to Arkhangelsk on Wednesday. We will meet for court prep on Thursday. Have the hearing Friday morning, and if everything goes as expected, we will start for home Friday night. We won't have the baby with us then, in fact we won't even get to see her this trip. We will come home for Christmas, while we wait on our 10 day waiting period to pass, and then go back after the first of the year to pick up Anna Beth. The Russian government will basically shut down for the first 10 days of 2010, so we will not go back until after at least the 10th. When we go back we will be there for 10 days to 2 weeks, which puts us bringing Anna Beth home around the 23rd or so of Jan. We will keep everybody posted.

Planning this trip during the holidays has been kinda interesting. We had a few more days notice than we expected, but that put us traveling during the holiday period. We were fortunate that we were able to use frequent flyer miles for this trip. We thought at one time that we would be able to fly first class, but because of the holiday, it took all of our miles just to get the tickets. If we had not been saving miles for the last several years, we would have been looking at $3000 per ticket. God is good and he took care of us again.

Thinks are coming along well on the new house, and we should have Anna Beth in her new room before summer. Actually, before her 3rd birthday at the end of May. It has been exciting to see what we designed coming together. Come by early one morning, and I will show you around.

Thanks again for all of your prayers, and we look forward to showing Anna Beth off next month.