Soft LOA

Soft LOA

We received an email this afternoon that our Letters of Acceptance (LOA) are on their way!! This is the official letter from China giving us permission to adopt Levi and Elizabeth.  We should have the hard copy in a week or so and then anticipate travel to China 10-12 weeks from then.  So, we are cautiously anticipating a May travel date.  Things can still get caught up at this point, but it feels like we are entering the home stretch!  Sadly, we have not received an updates on the kids yet.  But this is another milestone we are passing.   The kids rooms are near-ready.  We have a toddler bed for Miss Elizabeth and are getting a crib from a friend that goes into a toddler bed for Levi and we have a portable crib in our room for the initial homecoming should we need/want it.  We've been blessed with hand me downs that cover a mojority of big things.  We have a high chair, a booster seat, car seats, beds.....  we see their missing presence everywhere in the house. 

People are always asking how they can help.  First we continue to seek prayers for Levi and Elizabeth to remain healthy and developing and for the transition to our family.  We are still fundraising and have a scheduled workday for a widow on 2-22-14 which you can make a donation to sponsor our work for this widow and 100% of the funding goes to our adoption. 

 http://www.bothhandsfoundation.org/drew-and-aimee-ryan

We have felt such support from our friends and family as we have been on this journey.  We thank you so much!!   Until we know more,

Aimee