Almost ready to travel!!

Well, we are frantically getting everything ready as we will leave this sunday March 7, 2010!!!! It's finally here!
We are nervous about the travel part and excited about meeting Usha!! We have seen many pictures of her and think that she seems to be quite a character. We look forward to giving her the first of many hugs and kisses!

court order

We have now received the written court order and the children's home has applied for Usha's passport. This now means we can set tentative travel dates!!! We sent our dates to the agency who is making sure they will work for everyone in India. If everything is okayed it will be a "go" and we can book our trip!!!

Guardianship!!

This is the day that all families who are adopting from India wait for....being told that guardianship has been granted!!!! We will be traveling in a few weeks to bring our sweet girl home...yipppeeeee!

Update

We received an update from our agency yesterday. They informed us that our case is scheduled to be heard within the month and that we will probably travel in Feb or March!!! They also said we should go ahead and apply for our Visa! This is such exciting news. Usha is coming home soon!!

Success

Okay, I may have started to figure this out a bit. I just posted a picture of our girl looking at our photo album that we sent her!
All in all, the waiting is so tough and I've been following a blog of a family that is at the orphanage now and it's very bittersweet. I'm thouroughly enjoying following their journey but I cried today when they posted an entry about a game the girls play. Apparently, it's a game about when their daddy will come to get them and they are all so hopeful that one day it will happen for them. If I cry just reading about it, I'm sure I'll be an emotional mess when we are actually there to see it. Still, I'm thrilled for the little girl this family is bringing home and thrilled that we are lucky enough to bring one home ourselves!
As always, the wait continues...

Success!

And Still trying to figure this out

It is Dec. 14 and I still can't really figure out this blog. I would like to add pictures but no clue how to do it.
Anyway, as for the Usha update...we are still waiting. We did receive a new video and lots of new pictures AND there is a couple in India right NOW adopting from the same orphanage we will be going to. They have posted pictures of the orphanage and grounds and we have spotted Usha in three of the pictures! She seems to love having her picture taken.
We are watching their blog closely as we will basically be doing the exact same trip they are doing now. The big question is when will that be??? For now, we continue to wait.....