Tuesday, October 10, 2006

First Step Complete

We just finished our appointment at the SDA. We have some good news and some sad news to report. The sad news is that Victoria is not registered and is not available. It will be sad to see her and yet we know we have done everything we could at this point.
The good news is that Irina was born in Berdyansk according to her paper work. We found out some other news about her but mostly just sad information about her young life. We should be able to have our referral picked up by Yulia tomorrow around 5-6pm. We hope to fly to Berdyansk either just after that or early on Thur. It will be wonderful to see both girls and to know we are not going to have to wait for our power of attorney to travel to Russia to get a birth-certificate.
We are sharing our apartment tonight with an adopting mom and her mother. She is returning for the two siblings of her son who is 6.

Our love to all. Thank you for the prayers.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sir glad to hear you made it safely you are in our prayers and thoughts here as well,

YN3

Anonymous said...

Bev & Gary,

We are joyful that you will not have problems with Irina's birth certificate. We are continuing to keep you and your expanding family in our prayers.

Love,
Bob, Lisa, Kiera & ryan