Travel date changed!

We are now planning on leaving the 2nd week in Jan. due to the fact that Homeland security never sent our finger print updates. After a 3 day attempt to get in touch with them we finally got ahold of someone and after a couple of days looking for our file found it on a vacant desk (updates were done 6 months ago) and now they won't use them, go figure, they are the ones who lost them! How do people run businesses the way they do???? We are on like the 5th agency who has lost our paperwork!!! We are now in waiting mode as we wait for our appointment to redo the prints. Then they have to be processed, sent back to the office that lost them and then they will be sent off to Taiwan, all during the holidays. Good luck with that!!Our Visa appointment has been reset but we are afraid to buy plane tickets and make reservations! And to top it off when Brother Skiles went to set the new visa date he was told our passports wwere suppose to be certified???? Our government issued the passports, now they don't trust themselves?? That I do get! I don't trust them either :-) Anyway brother Skiles told them he has done over 400 adoptions and they have yet to ask anyone else for certified passports so why now? The lady said it must of been an over site on their part. Brother Skiles said that is a very big over site if you have over looked it 400 time!! They said they will let it slide for us but he now has to have it done for all the other adoptions. I am starting to feel like we will never get Braeley home. It was a very hard Christmas! We went to all the family functions but we have decided to ask Santa to bring our family presents when Braeley gets home so she will not have missed another Christmas. Ever heard of Christmas in July???? We just might be doing one if we don't get all this paperwork fixed and in the right direction! Anyway Braeley was moved to the orphanage awhile back and brother Skiles sent us new pictures! She is such a beautiful little girl but right now one very sad little girl! We are told she is doing well but she is very stubborn! I wonder what happened???

Please pray for the last part of this journey to finally be behind us! For Safe travels and a easy gotcha day!
Debby

We travel on the 5th of Jan.

We got our visa appointment and we will be traveling to Taiwan on Jan. 5, 2011. We did hear today that AIT did NOT receive our fingerprints update!!! It never seems to end! They told us it would be sent off but when AIT checked our paperwork yesterday to set up our appointment they found them missing. They think it will arrive in Taiwan in time for us to keep the appointment. So please keep us in your prayers. Home OF God's Love has invited us to stay at the orphanage for the week we are there. I am really excited about getting to see life in the home from the inside and think this will make Braeley's attachment a little easier as we will not just pick her up and leave everything she knows. She will still be in the same surroundings. We can't wait to see the new year in and to get our daughter in our arms!
Debby

WE GOT SECOND RULING!!!!! YEAH!!!!!

We got second ruling this morning and we will be traveling to Taiwan the last week of Dec. or the first week of Jan. What a great Christmas present!
Debby

Alana Christmas's Thru The Years As A Family

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Still waiting!

As of Dec. 6th we are still waiting for 2nd ruling and travel date. No new news! Hopefully soon! We were bless by a group of elderly ladies who got together and sewed pillow cases dresses to send to Braeley's orphanage. 60 of them in all! Now we just have to figure out how to get them there. Hopefully someone will donate the money to pay for the extra pounds.
Debby

Alana's 6th birthday

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Almost there!

WE GOT FIRST RULING!!!!! YEAH!!! The judge did say tho that Taitung was the slowest county and that they take about 8 weeks to get the paperwork back to her. But as soon as she gets it she will get our visa appointment and we can travel! I know that God can move mountains so I am not giving up on getting Braeley home for Christmas! Alana sat on Santa's lap last year and told him all she wanted was her baby to come home! So that would be the best Christmas present we could give her this year if we could bring her home by Christmas. Or at least spend Christmas in Taiwan as a family! Even a week after we could just wait to open gifts until then. Anyway we have missed 2 Christmases already so please join us in praying her home for Christmas!
God bless and thank you all who have walked this VERY LONG journey with us encouraging us on when the going got hard! We got Braeley's referral at 10 months the week after Christmas 2008 and she will turn 3 in Feb. so it has really been a long hard 2 years.It's hard enough waiting the normal 4 to 6 months after referral to travel.  2 years has been crushing! So many tears, so many long nights crying out to God. Trying to understand why and make sense of all of it but God is faithful to see us through. So hopefully we will be posting soon we have travel!
Debby