March Madness

March madness is huge around our house.  Filling out brackets is almost like a holiday.  We take the afternoon off school the first Friday of the games to watch all the competition on big screens at a sports restaurant.  Our kids love it.  We love it.  It helps us survive the end of winter.

This is KJ keeping track of the women's bracket.  It's not just the men's bracket, people.

As a joyful surprise, Ryan's employer offered us the chance to go to Dallas for the final three games of the tournament in their private suite.  This was beyond anything we would ever dream of doing ourselves, so we were thrilled with accepting such a generous gift!  The food, the view, the games- it was all extremely exciting!  Here we are at the final game, getting photo-bombed by our friend, Ron. (By the way, he's doing the sign for a three point shot that all the student fans were doing as they cheered their teams on).  

We continue to pray non-stop for our case to move forward with the USCIS office. At the end of last week, we found out that we received an RFE which stands for 'Request for Evidence'.  Simply put, as the US investigates all our paperwork, they are researching to make sure it is all legit.  This process was implemented in order to ensure ethical practices within international adoption. As much as we support this, time is added to our waiting as it creates more paperwork to process through. All we can do now is hope and pray that it gets completed in a timely manner.

The most frequent question we still get is 'When will you get to go meet your kids?'  Unfortunately, the answer is still totally unclear to us.  Cases ahead of us continue to move at a snails pace, but we're hoping that the kinks are getting worked out and that possibly we will be able to travel at the end of the summer.

I wish I could post photos of our sweet kids but we are not allowed to until after they are legally ours.  If you see me though, I have all the pics on my phone and will be happy to show in person!

Please pray that our RFE gets resolved quickly and that we get the last regional document that we need to move forward.