We Got The Call !!!!!!!!!!!

We got the call today!!! We are going over to Seoul next week to get Isaiah!!! We couldn't be more happy. This is an answer to countless prayers! Praise God! He is so good!

Keep posted, we will try to post blogs while we are in Seoul (as long as we can understand their technology, and it is in English). Thank you to everyone for your prayers; to our caseworkers at Lifelink (our adoption agency), and to all our friends and family who have supported us in countless ways during our wait and in preparation for our travel. God bless you all!

Still Waiting . . . but more patiently

Many of you (who read this) have been asking if we have gotten the call yet to travel to Seoul to bring Isaiah home . . . the answer is not yet . . . but we are cool with that. . . we are at peace with that. True, this has been a difficult few weeks waiting for the call when it could come any day . . . then nothing. We had been waking up every morning excited that this could be the day . . . then deflated when it wasn't. All this expectation and disappointment had left us feeling empty, stressed, and had been starting to turn what should be a joy-filled wait for our son into a source of stress. I know many of you have been praying that we get the call soon . . . thank you for that. . . you all are awesome and we are so blessed by you, your friendship and your faith . . . and please keep the prayers coming . . . because through your prayers and God's amazing way for meeting us where we are, He spoke to both of our hearts yesterday - and we are cool with the wait. He reminded both of us that He knows the desires of our hearts and He hears all of our prayers and they will be answered in His time (and as we all know His time is not always as quick as our time). . . we are finding a spiritual joy in trusting in God's will and knowing that God has a plan and all will unfold according to His plan. So we remain prayerful . . . patient . . . hopeful . . . and still waiting . . .

Still Waiting . . .

Yeah . . . we are still waiting, however, we hear that we are really close now. It feels like we have been hearing that for the last few weeks... or months. We hope this time it's true! We have really been trying to be patient, but it is difficult because we know where we are in the process and how close Isaiah is to coming home! When we don't hear anything, or in the time frame we are expecting; it makes the wait even longer.

On the 21st our patience was wearing thinner than usual; so we called the US Embassy in Seoul at midnight (2pm the next day in Seoul) to try and find out what was going on since we had not heard anything in a couple weeks. Fortunately, we were able to get through to a real person in the Visa Office after only two attempts (it was going well so far) and the woman on the other end told us they had just finalized Isaiah's Visa that morning! Great news! Now we are just waiting for the adoption agency in Seoul to physically go over to the US Embassy and pick it up. She told us that should happen in the next day or two. It has been two days and no news yet . . . we are hoping to hear something early next week. The wait continues . . .

Waiting to Travel to Bring Isaiah Home

We have been waiting to travel to Seoul, South Korea to get our second son, Isaiah, and bring him home! We can not wait to get over there to see him, hold him and GET HIM HOME! We could get the phone call any day now telling us that he is ready to travel home. We have been on the phone with the National Visa Center in the USA, and with the US Embassy in Seoul and all the paperwork is complete on their end. We have also been in contact with the adoption agency in Seoul via our local adoption agency, Lifelink; and they say he is ready to go. We are just waiting for the two agencies in Seoul to get together and finalize the travel documents. Here is the referral photo that we received from the adoption agency in Seoul in May. What a cutie! The woman in the photo is his foster mother who has been taking care of him for the past four months. You can click on the photo above to get a better view.

Michael's First Day at Home

Michael, our first son, came home from Korea in September of 2006 when he was 5 months old. The photo to the right is Michael on his first day at home. He is such a gift to us, we were excited to begin the journey again to adopt a second child. We started the process to adopt a second child in the summer of 2007. We received the referral for Isaiah in May of 2008 and are looking forward to the day we get to hold him in our arms.