Brielle Update and Summer Photos

Well, we were fingerprinted Friday, July 15th and received our approval letter the following Thursday. We are trying to medically expedite Brielle's adoption based on her needs and it appears that things will begin speeding up here in the next few months. We made a trip to Austin on Friday to get our paperwork certified and then shipped our documents to a courier who will take the papers to the Chinese Consulate in Houston for authentication. We should be DTC (date to China) here pretty soon. John and I are totally pumped about the speed up, but we remain grounded in the fact that everything will happen in God's time.

Meanwhile, we have a few pictures to share from our mini-vacation at Rockport Beach as well as some pictures from our Austin trip where we visited with some of our adoption agency contacts. It was a fantastic visit and long overdue. We have been working with this agency for about five years now and we finally got to meet the wonderful people who have helped complete our family.