WE GOT OUR REFERRAL!!! IT'S OFFICIAL!!

Praise the Lord!  After two very long months of just waiting for news on our adoption we have received the information we have been praying and waiting on, which means this process is progressing.  Very soon we will be making our trip to the country where she lives to pick up our sweet baby girl!

Our unofficial timeline looks like maybe somewhere in the month of January we (Bob and I) will be traveling to her country to pick up Sadie Bella!  We are just so thrilled and excited!  I wish I had a camera with me when we shared this with the kids...the girls screamed! The boys were hooooting and hollering.  We have been praying that God would move in the "powers to be" in the government to shake things up a bit to get our precious girl home with her family!  And...He did, the referral is the next, very necessary step in getting our girl home.

We now need to work on a video to make for her.  One that is age appropriate, she is almost 1(next week).  We were told to make sure we do something with "London Bridges falling down" because she loves that song.  Brought. tears. to. my. eyes.  We have been praying that her caregivers are loving her well and the fact that she loves that song...well means that somebody is singing to her.

We are completely in awe and humbled by God's graciousness in allowing us to be a part of this beautiful little girl's story.

We love you Sadie-girl and can't wait to get our hands on you and show you off to all of your family and friends who have been praying for you and for us!  God has already used your sweet little life to bring us closer to Him.  We feel so privileged to be your mommy and daddy!

Baby girl....you were "Meant to Be"!

(thank you Liz for sharing this song;))