SUBMITTED!!! :)

So I had a long post yesterday about not being submitted to Embassy.  Ha...funny!!! I woke up this morning with an email from Ethiopia saying WE WERE SUBMITTED!!!What a nice surprise! It was a great way to start the day. What does this mean? It means the staff at Hannah's Hope has given all of our paperwork to the Embassy. Now we wait for the Embassy to open our file. (Hopefully we will be notified of this) Then we wait for the Embassy to do all of the investigating needed to prove our little man is a true orphan. This is the frustrating part. The country of Ethiopia has already done their investigation. Now the US Embassy investigates. We are all for the legal part of this, but it really should be done earlier in the process. Our little guy is LEGALLY OURS as far as the country of Ethiopia goes. Now we wait for the Embassy to investigate so they can issue a visa. As I posted yesterday, this can still be a very long process. However...this truly is the last leg of this journey. We have one final hoop to get through b/4 this baby is home and into a forever family!!!! There really is no rhyme or reason to how/why the Embassy does what they do. We have no idea on a time frame. More than likely they will request an interview with a police officer. They might get in touch with someone and they might not. Time will tell. We continue to pray for this to go as smoothly and quickly as possible because this can really d-r-a-g out.

A few people have commented about this awesome thing we are doing. Seriously we aren't doing anything awesome or amazing. God called us to adopt an orphan from a different country. We simply answered "the call." We are blessed. We are the blessed ones that will get the opportunity to have one more child for us to love and will call us "Mom and Dad."Any of you that are parents know what a blessing a child is. Not only are we blessed to get to parent this little guy, we are blessed with some pretty amazing family and friends. The support has been so unbelievable. We have been blessed with a great support system. God has tested and stretched our faith. We have grown so much spiritually. We are blessed!!!!!

I can not hold back any more. I am posting a picture, but we can't show his face until we are home. Enjoy the tease. :)