We heard from our adoption agency tonight and they told us that the Vietnamese government has accepted our third letter and will be issuing an adoption decree early next week.  They have confirmed that our TENTATIVE Giving and Receiving (G&R) Date, the date which Mia is officially ours, is still September 24th.  That will not be firm until the actual decree is signed.

That said, we would probably be leaving around September 21st.  I wrote our travel agent tonight, although it is a little early, but we should probably start talking about plane tickets as we will need to buy them as soon as the G&R is set.

The one issue we are trying to work around is the birthdays we are going to miss.  Those that know us well know that all but two of the birthdays in our family happen between Sept. 22 and Oct. 22.  We will miss Zach (9/22), Brit (10/3) and Luke (10/5), not to mention Kelly (10/1) and I (10/4) will have to celebrate in Vietnam.  Mia fits well in our family at 10/21 and Max rounds things out at 10/22.

Keep praying that everything continues to move on God’s time table and the He works out all the final details for the kids.

As always, if you have any questions, please ask!

Cameron