adoption update

I thought I'd update everyone as to where we are in the long journey to our son/daughter. We are one step much closer as we are finishing up our homestudy! Almost complete! phew! One down...many steps to go! But that is okay. We are taking each step one at a time and knowing that every step we are getting closer to our child. So exciting and amazing at the same time. God is working big time. We had our adoption fundraiser with our good friends the Dawkin's (who are also adopting a daughter from Ethiopia), and we were provided with funds to take us the through the next steps. What a blessing!!!! Next step is UCIS paperwork and then we compile our dossier to send to Ethiopia. We are covered up to our dossier being in Ethiopia. As soon as I get our final copy of our homestudy we can start applying for adoption grants/loans. In the middle of this we are moving. Scott is being transferred to San Juan, Puerto Rico for his next job. It is still not official as we are awaiting overseas entry approval. We hope to find out in a few days. Either way if we get approved or not we are moving somewhere. We have grown to like being in New Jersey and it took the last two years out of four being here to like it. We have a wonderful church and made some best friends who are like family to us out here who we will miss dearly. Of course there will have to be some future visits in store back to jersey:) A neat thing if we do get Puerto Rico is our church has a mission team who goes to the Dominican Republic every year. We can take a ferry over to Dom Rep and meet up with them! How exciting would that be? Some of you may wonder how we are moving overseas and still adopting? As we spoke of this possibility with our adoption placement agency we still can adopt overseas from Puerto Rico. It is no different then being in the states. When we move we will get a homestudy "update" and that is it. We go through the same process as everyone else. I'm sure there will be some hiccups as we are moving to a spanish speaking island but nothing we can get through. That is why I'm learning mi espanol. Alright I know its been a while since I've posted so I just wanted to update everyone. Sorry no pictures this time..