And the wait continues!

We found out this week that there is a very small chance of us traveling to Ethiopia for a March 23rd embassy date. there has been some bad publicity in the news lately about Ethiopian adoptions so the US embassy has decided that your paper work must be turned in 8 weeks before you can get an embassy appointment to get a visa. Our paper work should be turned in this weeks so we are now looking at May before we a can go get Macey! Ryan graduates on May 28th and our family will be here and then we booked a condo at the beach for after graduation for all our family that will be here for graduation. We really thought we would be home for a few months before all the graduation craziness started, it's not really the best as far as attachment goes for a child that has lived almost her entire live in an orphanage to come home to more people and craziness! Oh well we will do what ever we have to do. But here are some really cute pictures!

Here is our newest picture of Macey, it was taken in Jan so she is 7 months old in this picture. We are waiting on her birth certificate to arrive so that we can confirm our travel dates, but we are hoping to have an embassy date of March 23rd so we should leave on March17-18 and be home around the 27 or 28. This is what we are hoping for since the boys are on spring break the next week we would like to be back while they are out of school.

We got a few inches of snow so we had to go play while it lasted since it was almost gone by that afternoon. You can see in the last picture that Brayden lost a tooth, and yes he is only 4 so he will have a hole there for a few years, it was not it's time to come out!

Introducing...

Macey Kidist Best. We passed court today and officially have 4 kids! Now we have to wait to get her birth certificate and pass port and an embassy date then we can get on a plane and go get her! It is taking about 6-8 weeks to get an embassy date so hopefully we will have her home by the end of March!

Didn't pass again!

Well we did not pass court again today, the birth mother has to appear in court and she was not able to make it today sooooo we wait some more. They rescheduled for Feb.3rd, here we go again!

Didn't Pass

Well we didn't pass court today.... so we have to wait more. The good news is that they will hear our case again on Monday! So I only have to wait 3 more days and not 3 more weeks. So here we go again!

Better late than never. I have been meaning to blog about our adoption for oh about a year and look I am finally doing it! We started the process of adopting a little girl from Ethiopia in Oct. of 2008 and are finally getting close to having her home. Our court date is on Fri. the 15th in Ethiopia, they are 8 hours ahead of us so while we are sleeping (hopefully sleeping) they will decide if K (I can't post her name yet) will officially become a Best! So as long as the internet is up and running in Ethiopia I should have an answer Fri. morning. There is about a 50% chance of passing court the 1st time, so there are alot of things that have to all be in line and K's birth mother has to show up at court also. If we don't pass they can either keep the case open until they have everything they need or they can close it and we would have to wait for a new court date. But I am not thinking about that because I am ready to get on a plane and go to Ethiopia!
I will post pictures as soon as I am able, not really sure if I can post after we pass court or if I have to wait until we have her in our arms.

Ok so now so that my mom will stop bugging me for pictures... oops the pictures are on top!