We are DTC!!!!

We have some great news to announce! We are finally DTC as of 10/31/06! For those in the non-adopting world that lingo stands for Dossier to China...Which means that all of our paperwork has been notarized by our agency and they have sent it on to China to be logged into the Chinese system. It could take up to several months to find out exactly when we were "logged in" with the China Center for Adoption Affairs but we are excited to finally be DTC. The wait time right now seems amazingly long-approx 15 months for the non-special needs route so approx 12 months for the "special needs" route...and our agency expects the wait to get even longer in 2007. We aren't excited about the wait but God knows exactly when we are going to adopt. None of it is a surprise to Him so we are trusting that He will direct our paths and give us the patience we need to wait on His timing. We do continue to pray that although we have submitted our paperwork to China through the special needs route that maybe we will find our little girl before then on one of the waiting children lists that get sent to our agency every 4-5 months. They will probably receive another list this spring and our hope is that maybe there is a little girl on the list that is meant to be ours. In the mean time we will continue to get prepared, get Mackenzie's and Ainsley's passports, and get the proper vaccines so that when the time comes we are ready to go! Thanks to all of you out there who are praying and encouraging us. We appreciate you so much!