YES!! Jake and I are over the moon excited. On Monday we recieved an email letting us know that our agency had recieved our letter of approval (LOA) which is the step we have been not so patiently waiting to come for 5 months now! Wow. That was long. We are so incredibly happy to have that waiting behind us now, and so ready to hop on an airplane to pick up our baby girl!
The next step is having a letter sent from our government offices in Victoria, and hopefully within a couple of weeks Jake and I will have the date for the giving and recieving ceremony where we get our girl in our arms (never to let go again, let me tell you!).
The last weeks leading up to the approval were so rough. Definitely was at my lowest in this whole process, and really needing even a small sign that things were moving along. So we were beyond excited to have the letter, when we had been told not to expect it for another few weeks.
Timeline wise we are praying (and would love your prayers as well!) that we get to travel mid/late March. It is typically a month after receiving the letter to travel, so we are praying things move along at a good pace. While we wait we are keeping pretty busy! March seems to be a full month with a baby in the family, a wedding, two birthdays, and getting everything lined up for travel will be squeezed in there too but we are so thankful!
