Wokking and Rolling

Our homestudy has been sent to AAC for approval. I received an email back today stating that we may need Conner's teacher to submit a reference letter. SERIOUSLY?! That is perfectly fine with me, but it sure would have been nice to know that like 4 weeks ago! So, we are waiting to hear back if that is needed before approval or not. Hoping they let me know something tomorrow. I sent the remaining documents for our dossier as well as the I800A forms and payment. The I800A form is an application to make sure we are suitable to adopt a child from China. This process will take as few as 6 weeks and as long as 12 weeks. The few that were just finished took only 6 weeks, so I am really hoping we are on the faster end. Once that is completed, we are DTC (Dossier To China)!!! After DTC, we should be LID (Logged In Dossier), which means we will be ready to be matched with our precious little girl! 

Starr and Bobby Bowman held an Egg Roll Fundraiser for us at our church this past Saturday. This family's generosity continues to blow me away. They have included us in all of their family activities and we have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know all of them better. Starr has been an amazing support to me throughout this whole process. I couldn't ask for a better sister to walk along this path with my family. She is amazing and is always willing to lend a helping hand. So many of you were able to come out and enjoy the famous "Bowman Egg Rolls!" Let's put it this way, if you didn't make it out to get any, you have no idea what you missed out on! They were FANTASTIC! Starr did an amazing job coordinating all of this and we had an amazing turnout. Thank you to those that helped serve, roll, clean up, manage money, cook, and donate supplies, tea, and cupcakes. You all are such a blessing to us and we are so very grateful that we get to share this journey with each of you. We are still waiting for the total count to come in, but we sold over 725 egg rolls and raised $2,052 so far. Praise God for his continued guidance and for providing everything we need to bring our little girl home! He gets all of the glory! 

Please continue praying for us as well as our precious girl and her birth family. Thank you again for your continued support as we bring baby girl home from China!