Updated Documents Have Been Approved

We just got word from our translator that our documents that we had to have updated were translated into Russian, submitted to the NAC, approved and filed with the rest of our documents. Whoo...Whoo!!! What a load off of our minds. We will bring extra originals of all our documents for precautionary reasons, but I am confident that all of our documents are all together and ready for our arrival. =)



Our Facilitator, Julia also told us who our in-country translator will be. Her name is Ira and she is very experienced in working with adoptive families in helping them to complete their adoptions. We also have an in-country lawyer, who's name is Valentina who will be our in-country coordinator in the Kiev, Ukraine region. I hear from other adoptive families that both Valentina and Ira go above and beyond the call of duty for the families that they work for and get the job done as quickly as they can.



We were told that Ira, our translator, will be waiting for us in the airport with a sign with our names on it. She will then take us to our driver and from their we will go to our hotel in Kiev, Ukraine. Ira will be the one whom will be with us for the most part of our adoption journey, since she will be translating for us throughout the process.



Since we will arrive in Ukraine a few days before our appointment we will have time to tour Kiev and record some memories for our children. Kiev is a major metropolitan city and has many old architectual design buildings, churches, open markets (like a Cowtown..or as my mother-in-law calls it "Out-of-town Shop"). So there will be a lot to see in Kiev before we meet with the NAC on Tuesday, July 26th.



OOOHHH it's getting so exciting! It's funny, because I'm usually the one purchasing little toys and educational items for when our children arrive home and yesterday Robert showed me what he purchased(the 1st toy he purchased himself) which is a nerf football. Yes, Robert is getting excited to have a son or two of our own. Since we don't know the age of our children yet, he has been telling me and our families not to purchase anything for the children until we get back from Ukraine. I was so tickled to see that he purchased the nerf football to take with us to Ukraine. My honey's excitement is bubbling over like it is with all of us.



Boy how the time has flown these past couple of months. We are so looking forward to meeting and getting to know our forever children. God is so AWESOME! He is working everything out for good exceedingly, abundantly above all that we can ask or think.