What a day, what a week!

Hello all and HAPPY FRIDAY!!! :) I hope you all are doing well and enjoying this beautiful spring day! It's been absolutely GORGEOUS here in Indy!!! I can't get enough of this weather and the pretty flowers blooming everywhere you turn!!

So, first I will start with a RUSSIA update! We had a Russia conference call on Tuesday of this week with our Russia coordinator at FTIA, Inessa. It went very well. She was calling to go over how to complete our dossier...Well, she wasn't aware that I was still in a dossier FRENZY from just completing our Vietnam dossier (hehe). I'm an ole pro now ;-) Everytime she would say, "ok, so about this document"... I'd say, "done, done, done" :) Needless to say, I'm just about done with our dossier, the only thing left to do is our notaries and apostilles and then our I-600A specifically for Russia. She wanted me to wait until our home study was complete to get all of the above papers in order, so that the dates on the documentation is not far off. All of this to say, our home study should be completed along with all of our documentation (baring any unforeseen circumstances) in the next 4 weeks. At that point we are on the waiting list and our wait could be anywhere from a few days up to about 5 months. With that in mind...Many of the Russian adoptive families I have spoken with said they got their referrals as early as day THREE up to about 2 months!!!! So it could be much sooner than we anticipated. I'll keep ya posted! :) OHHHH, and we are thinking about a couple of new names....Hadley (the A sounds like the "apple") and also Carson, which is a family name on my side. We'll see...

On to Vietnam and the BIG NEWS there! I'm going to save the lengthy story and just post the warnings that were issued by our government, for you to read. It APPEARS that Vietnam is shutting down. For how long, we don't know and we also don't know if we'll be able to complete our adoption from Vietnam. Even with the recent announcement our agency issued a statement that sounded somewhat optimistic and they still believe there is a "chance" we could end up completing our adoption from Vietnam. As for any of the details, we truly have NO clue, which is par for the course on this journey. We continue to put our trust and faith in the Lord and His plan.


Here are both the relevant announcements and they are better than any synopsis I could give:
http://vietnam.usembassy.gov/adoption_warning0408.html

http://vietnam.usembassy.gov/irreg_adoptions042508.html

So, it's been a busy day and a busy week!! :) We are in very good spirits, though we were disappointed by the announcement we are at peace with where God has us right us now. Ironically today while I was out driving around I found COMPLETE comfort in listening to a sermon surrounding, Acts 20. God new just where to meet me, HE is SOO good!!!! :)

ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND!!! BIG HUGS FROM THE LEESE FAMILY!!!
Robin & Brandon