Things seem to be moving right along. Our final homestudy visit was last Friday so that part is all done. We have mailed off for our birth certificates and marriage licence...all have to be originals and less than a year old. We all have our physicals next week and then we can finalize our homestudy and send off our application to Homeland Security (I-800A). We are hopefully to receive our PA (pre-approval) from China by the end of this week! Once we do, we can send Zhong Yong a package and he will know he finally has a family!! I can't wait!!
We had a Gold Canyon candle fundraiser and are thankful to those who purchased candles to help us raise some of the money. We were also given $250 in cash donations this past weekend which were a huge blessing! As you can imagine, it does cost more to adopt internationally. We will be applying for grants but you cannot apply for those until your homestudy is finalized and then it takes weeks to hear back from them (and it's not guaranteed, and really not likely that you will be awarded one, because there are more applicants than there are funds). So we have to find alternatives to the fundraising until we get to that point. We have come across this neat t-shirt site. I love their t-shirts and what they say on them and they do fundraisers for adopting families!! They have shirts for women and children (sorry men) and we make $10 for every shirt sold. Just click the link to the right to go to the fundraising site. You must enter the code SALVADOR1206 in the coupon section when placing your order for us to get credit. If you want to just make a cash donation, you can do so as well by clicking the CHIP-IN link to the right as well and donate through Paypal. Thank you to all of you for your continued prayers and support!
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