We're here...

After a 12 hour layover in Moscow- we are finally here.. It is 6:15 p.m. (4:15 a.m. your time) and we've just been unwinding & headed to the US Embassy to process our paperwork so that we may go to Almaty, Kazakhstan for Riannon's medical visit, immigration interview, and to get her US Visa.... That took about 2 hours.. tomorrow is a national holiday so we will not be able to get her yet, but we will run a couple more errands- getting our Kazkhstan Visas and getting Riannon's passport.... Then finally Friday morning at 8:00 a.m. (6 PM your time Thursday) we will finally pick her up and bring her back for the weekend... Then we will head into Kazakhstan sometime Monday & stay there for 2 days & head back to Bishkek Wednesday late & get ready to go home... Hopefully everything is in order and we'll be home before you know it...
We'll try to get here to the internet cafe sometime over the weekend.... Love to you all! Please kiss the boys for us & tell them we love them & miss them..

last night as a family of 4

Well, our last night as a family of 4... We are off bright & early for the 2 day trip to pick up Riannon... I hope we get a chance to stop by the internet cafe to update the blog while we're there... we just don't know if we'll have a whole lot of lul time like we did last trip.... This trip sounds like a ton of paperwork & meetings... we'll see.. but it's the last & final leg of our journey to bring home our daughter.... Again thank you all for your continued support & prayers... We'll be home soon on Sept. 7 to be exact... as a family of 5 + doggie :-)
Love you all!

daddy's girl

She's already DADDY' s little girl...

Finally...dates

We finally have official dates to go back to Kyrgyzstan to bring our daughter home! We will leave August 25th to be there by August 27th and return home on September 2nd... Our week will consist of picking her up, completing paperwork and getting our visas to go to Kazakhstan. We will spend the last 2 days in Almaty, Kazakhstan (a 4 hour bus drive-through winding roads & mountains we here). There Riannon will have her medical visit at the Embassy and day 2 we will have our exit interview and everything processed & completed... We will head back to Bishkek and leave Saturday at the crack of dawn...Now the fun...Hopefully she'll do okay on such a long flight, but then we'll be home......Here's one more picture from our last visit...I will post one more time before we leave- I am not sure we'll have time to post anything there- but we will try... We are so close.....

We are still waiting for official travel dates. They said we would either need to be back in Kyrgyzstan on the 21st of August or the 28th- so hopefully we'll know exactly the date this week... We heard that court went very well. Our translator sent us an e-mail and she said that everything went smoothly and the officials were very kind. She has walked with Riannon and fed her... So it's nice to hear. Now we're just getting more and more anxious to go back and bring her home! We've been busy here- Grant started Flag football for the 2nd year. It's a young team & he's more a leader-instead of getting thrown around the field... Love football season! My Girlfriend's Kitchen is under way! We're still waiting for our final architectural plans to submit for permits and bids from our contractor- should be getting those next week- then we can roll & get in there to start demo & build out....Everything is such a waiting game :-) Well we'll update again once we know our dates- of course I'm already packed & ready to go- We have to weigh & reweigh the bags everytime we add something in the suitcase... Don't want to go over the 50 lb. limit and trying to only bring 2 large suitcases on this trip....