Sorry Trees

I spent most of my labor day laboring.

For a good reason.

We had everything state sealed and translated this week. The next step was copying. Lots and lots of copying. We had to make 7 copies of every single document and every translation of every document. Our homestudy alone was 20 pages. Sorry trees. A lot of you were sacrificed for this great cause.

This photo was the very beginning of an almost 6 hour process. My sweet friend Dawn helped me do all of this at her office. I seriously don't know how I would have done this without her. I will be forever grateful for her help in bringing our future child home.

We started by separating all the documents as they were getting copied.

We had piles everywhere.

This was lunch. :)

When we finally got to the point where most of the copies were made, it was time to put them into 7 piles.

Each document had to go into each pile with the french translation of each document placed behind it. It was tricky to figure out which french translation went with what. Kind of a big puzzle that we got to put together.

When we were finally finished this was THE pile.

Sorry trees.

We have just a couple things we need to add and as of tomorrow this ginormous pile will be mailed to Grand Rapids and then to the Haitian Consulate.

We aren't sure if we are going to send it to Haiti at that point or if we are going to wait a bit to see what the changes are that are going to be made with Haitian adoptions. Our biggest obstacle right now is we are waiting to find out if Bethany has been approved in Haiti to be one of their "chosen" Hague agencies. We are hoping and praying that they choose Bethany because this will make things WAY easier for us to move forward.

We would love if you would pray with us that we can move forward. That Bethany would be chosen and nothing would stand in our way to send everything to Haiti so we can wait for our child. We will continue to TRUST and move forward and hope. And plant a few trees.