And off they go!!!

It is truly happening. The Blackwell family boards a plane tomorrow bound for Vietnam via San Fran and Hong Kong. The plan is to arrive in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday, travel to Can Tho on Saturday (about an hour from the baby home) and then finally to the Hau Giang baby home on Sunday to meet their son. We are hopeful that they will have their Giving and Receiving Ceremony sometime between Monday Nov 3rd and Wednesday Nov 5th. They will then drive back to HCMC, where they will have a few appointments and medical exams before flying north to Hanoi to receive Zane's visa to come home. We are hopeful that they can be home on Thursday November 13th. Please keep them in your prayers, as we know that the government officials have been more than difficult with the time frames. We have been blessed to know this family, and pray for this family throughout their adoption. We met up with the Blackwells this weekend for a farewell and to give them a care package for our Dillen. Please celebrate with us and lift them up in prayer as they journey to their son!

On a side note, we still do not have an update on our travels. The director of our agency was supposed to email us last week to give us an update on when our paperwork would be going to Hanoi and the cost of that, we did not hear from her. We asked for a receipt for our adoption expenses thus far nearly two months ago, and we still have not received that either. We do not know when this madness will end for us. As the economy seems to slip, we are more and more concerned about the debt that we are acquiring in this process. Please be in prayer for us during this time. We were unable to receive any grant money and both of our second jobs put us in more of a financial need than before. It seems like we can never catch up and it is very unlikely that we can get ahead of where we need to be to afford this adoption. We do not take your prayers for granted.