The start of our journey!

We are going to start this at the beginning.
Drew and I started this amazing journey on April 5th 2007 that is when we sent in our application to the adoption agency. On April 9th 2007 we found out that they approved our application. From there we started on the long journey to get our dossier done. We finalized our dossier and sent it in, I think, on August 30th. Our Dossier arrived at the Embassy in New York on Sept 28th. The next step on our dossiers journey would be Ministry of Foreign Affairs which it arrived there on November 30th. Next would be the last step for our dossier which is the Ministry of Education and it arrived on February 20th 2008. We were told at that time it would be a while before we would receive our call to go over. So our wait began.
Drew and I decided we would go on a last minute vacation to Alabama to see a NASCAR race and my parents. We booked our flight on March 9th we were to fly down on April 23rd and come home on April 29th. Then we received an email from the air line on March 19th that they no longer where flying to Chattanooga TN. So our vacation was off. We did not want to drive down. I told my mom and Drew that the big guy had something better for us to do during that time. Well on March 28th my mom called to tell me the air line we were to fly down to see them had just closed there doors. Again I told my mom something better was going to happen.
On April 9th 2008 Drew took the day off and we were both sitting down playing on the computer when the phone rang Drew answered it and it was Kellie. She told Drew that she was going to call right back and that we should answer the phone. Drew turned around and said to me that was Kellie, she said she will call back, and the look on his face was like oh my do you think. I told him no way, that she was calling with our new contact since she would be leaving soon. When she called back Jeff and Kellie where both on the phone, then I started to feel like Drew might have been right. Then Jeff said “if you want to cry, scream or jump please do because you have received your referral”. We both looked at each other and were in shock. Then Jeff said you are to be in Kazakhstan on April 27th 2008. I could not believe it but I guess the big guy was looking out for us after all. We were supposed to be at the NASCAR race that weekend, I told Jeff and Kellie, and we were all in shock.
We have scheduled our flights we will be leaving Ohio April 25th and arriving in Kazakhstan on April 27th. Our first visit with our little one will be April 28th. We will keep everyone updated.