Good news!

We got some good news today from Russia!  Our documents were accepted and our referral for the little nine month old girl in Moscow is now official since she came off the registry today.  That means we are on our way folks!!!  We are all on cloud nine and could not be happier.  We should get travel dates from the Department of Education (in Moscow) early next week, but we could be holding our little girl as soon as the week of September 10. 

Thank you to everyone out there who called, e-mailed, visited and prayed for us and for her.  Please continue to pray that the road is smooth and that all barriers are removed.  We truly feel the Lord's presence over this adoption and are just praying that she is the daughter we have been praying about for the past two years. 

For all those DeSoto girls who read this, I have been singing in my head the blessing we would sing on Sundays before lunch: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow . . . ."  Woo hoo!!!!!