WE ARE DTC!!!!!!!!!! (& Small Group Thanksgiving)

We are finally DTC (Dossier to China)!

It seems like we've been working toward this goal FOR-EV-ER! But finally today, November 24, 2010, our paperwork is heading to China! Woohoo! Next up is waiting for our LID (login date), telling us that our dossier has made it's way to China and been logged into the queue. We'll probably be logged in about a week(ish) from now but won't actually get word of our LID until several weeks later. So I'm hoping we'll have our LID by Christmas? After that, it will be time to start searching for our special girl. Please keep her in your prayers - our little girl halfway across the world, whomever she may be. Please also keep her birth mom in your prayers too ... she probably very recently had to make the most difficult decision to give her daughter up. I can't even imagine.

You're probably wondering about the picture. LOL. This is our Thanksgiving group - we started our Thanksgiving dinner tradition 4 years ago, shortly after we had formed our small group at church. I'm so thrilled that we are still doing this ... it's so wonderful to get together with everyone and enjoy the fellowship and all of the delicious concoctions. We took this picture at the end of the night - AFTER we had eaten and the kids had played themselves silly. We were tired but I'm so glad we did this - thank goodness for tripods and self-timers!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!