LOI Day !

We need to be in the baby house in Ust-Kamenogorsk sometime in mid June! So we think this may actually happen soon!

Tomorrow we have a call with our coordinator and might get some more information, but for now we are just so excited and honestly can't quite believe it!

More soon -

Dan, Allison and soon-to-be-big-brothers Joseph & Matthew Byrne

Region Change

We found out yesterday that our paperwork has been moved from Aqtobe to the Ust-Kamenogorsk, and our agency now estimates that we will travel in June...although as everyone knows in this process, that could change to be sooner or later for any number of reasons.

While this past month or so has been tough with the process up in limbo once again, we feel good about this most recent development. So we have a renewed (if guarded) optimism this morning!

Also, our agency told us that Ust is a "good" region in terms of the speed of the process, and their tolerances on paperwork. That means that if the schedule unfolds as expected, we will likely not have to redo (once again) things like doctors' appointments, etc. So that is good news as well.

Thanks to everyone for your support, thoughts and prayers. We'll post again when we have any more news.

-Dan & Allison

Still waiting

We have no further news, Alla our caseworker from Adoption Ark has been in Kaz for for a little over a week now; she will be there until about April 13, I think. We are anxiously awaiting some color from her on our status - hopefully we will hear something this week. We have heard of some other families whose process is moving along so we are hopeful that we'll get word soon.

Thank you to everyone for your support and your encouraging posts on our blog!

-Dan, Allison & the boys