PeBoBe Randusty Benefit Concert

We had such a great time on Friday night at Connolly's with the PeBoBe Randusty Band. The band did a great job talking about International Adoption and our precious Dillen, not to mention the music was so FUN! I was so excited when I heard the tribute to our childhood with a little Vanilla Ice and some Sir Mix-a-lot! The band was able to raise almost $700 for our adoption. Thanks to all that came out and supported us and PeBoBe Randusty.

The wonderful Randy

Above and Below... the Fabulous PeBoBe Randusty Band

Brooke and Jen, the BEST caseworker we could have asked for. She is the reason we have a beautiful daughter waiting for us in Vietnam!

We love her dearly.

Chris Mize and Chris Myers... not confusing at all...

The soon to be Mrs. and Mr. Hornsby!

The girls... Katie, Tara & Jen

Dillen's Nana Betsy and Martin came for a long night out!

Kim and Karla

Just a few of the ladies from my wonderful Dare to Dream Bible Study!

They were joined by Karen and Claudia which made introducing a tongue-twister!

One Family in the Province

One family is in the province but we do not know if they have had their G&R as our province leaders will not set those until after the family arrives. The family left the US on March 21, 2009. Thuoc plans for them to fly to Hanoi on the 28th and fly home on March 31st. This is a very ambitious plan and it will be amazing if this all happens as planned. I certainly hope so because if it can happen once, it may happen again. We will send an update when we know more.

On a side note, we will be at Connolly's Irish Pub in downtown Greenville on Friday night. The PeBoBe Randusty Band is helping us raise money to bring Dillen home. If you are in town, we would love to see you there. The music should be a lot of fun. I don't want to spoil it, but I think we may hear some 90's jams! We hope to see you there. If you are unable to come, I will post some pictures of the event on the blog!

One family to travel this weekend!

So one family is supposed to travel this weekend and there are two more families that both have their Decision of Adoption signed and are waiting for travel dates. It looks like we may be seeing the pinhole of light at the end of the very long and gloomy tunnel. I don't know much about this family that is traveling, except they are bringing a little boy home. We hope they take lots of pictures while they are there so they can send them home to us, unfortunately we don't have any contact with them, so unless our agency is on top of it, we probably won't know much about their trip or see their pictures.

The next two families to travel looks to be the Henson family and the Lopez family. FINALLY! We couldn't be more excited (other than if we were going ourselves) for the Lopez family. Their beautiful son Dat was the first baby in the home and is now almost 3 yrs. old! We are so thankful that he can finally be home with his family very soon.

We are just waiting for DIA's input in our case so that we can get our Decision of Adoption signed and issued an Invitation to travel. We are hopeful that it will come shortly after DIA has looked at our papers (which is probably still a few weeks out). Until then we will be celebrating the journey of our friends and share in the blessing that their sons are coming home!

A new timeline

So it seems like every time we move, we move into a new timeline. Are you ready to count? So the latest news we have heard is that when our paperwork got sent back to DIA is was put into "the line" where new paperwork goes and follows the same timeline... which is at least 60 days to process. Fortunately, we waited 30 of those days just trying to get our agency to find out what was going on, so we are half way through. What's next???? Who knows at this point.

The Henson family did not travel as scheduled. They are now being told that they will have to wait another 10 days before they can travel. So lets hope someone gets there asap. We have not gotten any updated medical reports or weight and measurements since August. The Blackwell family gave us a roundabout weight when they were there in November, but it sure would be nice to know our girl is healthy.

On a side note... We have incredible friends. For those of you that will be in the Greenville Friday March 27th please meet us downtown at Connolly's to hear our friend Randy Hutchison and his band. They are donating their tips to help us bring Dillen home. We would love to see everyone there that night. (More info still to come.)

We would also like to thank the Key family. We received an email from Rachel letting us know about a grant that we may qualify for and quickly sent them our info. We got an email back last week that we were selected to receive the grant! (Again, more info to come.)

This is Craziness!

Well almost another week gone by with no additional news. I met the family that is traveling and saw pictures of their beautiful boy who should be home shortly. It was good to connect with another family with a beautiful child from Vietnam. I was able to pack a little bag for Dillen with a couple of outfits and a new toy. Hopefully it's the last time we send things and not ourselves. The Henson family should be traveling very soon, however they have gotten no additional information as to when they leave. They were told it would probably be this week, but it's already Wednesday.

As for us, we have been unable to reach our adoption provider. Hopefully today we will finally hear back and understand more about our holdup.

Another family to travel

I don't know if it is good or bad news in our case that another family will be traveling to Vietnam to bring home their son from our agency. The good news? We'll get new pictures of our sweet girl and the opportunity to send her something. The bad news? It's not us traveling! Boohoo! We are so thankful for the opportunity to send something special to Dillen and we hope to get to know this family that is traveling. We will update the blog if we hear news while they are in the country, but for now, think of the Henson family as they travel to pic up their son Jax. He will be one year old this month. Pray that they have safe travels, a good trip and a smooth process. We look forward to sharing new pictures with all of our readers.