An Eventful 2 Days!

Right now I feel like singing the theme song for Ni Hao Kailan's movie, "We're Going To China". Ever heard that one?
"We're going to China, We're going to China, I feel so happy I just want to sing......!"
My heart is singing and rejoicing right now. My God is so good and faithful to those who trust in Him.
Yesterday, August 7, we got a phone call from our adoption co-ordinator, Aimee, at AWAA. We had our travel approval. We had just gotten an email from the travel co-ordinator saying our Article 5 on July 20th. Then we got the call at 1:06 pm with the good news. She told us to plan on traveling on August 30th. We called our friends, Jamie and Karen, to find out if they had gotten their travel approval. They had! Wow! We have been in singles, church and Bible study together and through the first adoption process at the same time. We just didn't get our children at the same time that go around Today, we got the email from Teresa, our travel co-ordinator. We got our flights booked and believe it or not, we will be traveling with our friends! We will be on the same flights going but they get to come back home the day before us because their consulate appointment will be the day before ours. Their first daughter is the same age as Jonathan and about 2 years younger than Andrew. We got together tonight at China Buffet to celebrate! What a wonderful time! The Lord also blessed us with awesome airline tickets! We (Andrew included) had been praying about that. With the gas prices the way they are right now, we thought the tickets would be astronomical but they weren't! That is a definite praise. Can I hear a big AMEN!!?? After we booked the tickets today, the 3 of us spent time praying together and thanking the Lord for His wonderful blessings! We really wanted to re-iterate this with Andrew.
This afternoon I marked Andrew's calendar and we counted off the night nights until travel. It's 22 night nights from today! Time will fly by quickly. I will be very busy at work making sure orientation stuff is taken care of before I leave and at home getting ready to travel. Well, it's time to get Andrew ready for bed. Please keep us all in prayer. We love you all.
Lisa