WE'RE GOING TO UKRAINE!!

On Friday we got our SDA appointment date for July 10th!! We could not be more excited to finally know when we get to travel and the timing with summer works out perfectly with our work schedules.  Our one way plane tickets are officially booked and we will be leaving late on July 5th, arriving early in Ukraine on July 7th, have a couple days to adjust and then attend our SDA appointment (where we will hopefully be matched with our child!) on July 10th. At this point in time we plan on staying through the entire process, likely 2 months or more, but will have to see just how long the trip really is when it gets to be time for the new school year to start. We are going into it with a flexible mindset knowing that we may need to end up making two trips if it looks like we will be missing too much work before coming home as a family.  I'm not sure it's all sunk in yet that it's actually happening, but we know the next month will be an exciting whirlwind for sure!

Now that we have a date, finances are about to become an important issue for us.  We have two more fundraisers this month: we are the featured family at www.raginiproject.com so all purchases will fund a grant for our family, and we have a big garage sale coming up on the 16th and 17th.  Please pray that these two fundraisers will be successful for us! We still have thousands of dollars to raise to be completely funded for adoption AND travel expenses.  Please consider checking out the Ragini Project website or our YouCaring page to make a donation directly to us.  Every dollar gets us closer to bringing home our little one!

Other things to pray for during this next month as we prepare to travel:
-For all travel details to come together smoothly (including things that will need to be taken care of at our home while we are gone for that long)
-For peace and not anxiety as we prepare for traveling (13 hours on planes isn't our favorite thing to do) and for SO many unknowns that are ahead
-That we will officially find our child (or children) on July 10th!