Another big day

So we just sent off another big form towards Bryce's adoption. We just sent the immigration form needed to approve us from the US standpoint. We get an appointment for fingerprinting and then once that is done, we get an approval form. Then the dossier(all the paperwork needed to adopt Bryce) goes off to the state of florida for this pretty gold seal on it and then to the Ukraine. So to all of our loved ones......Bryce is coming home very, very,very soon.

It's so surreal now. Clothes hanging in the closet, getting his room prepped and ready to receive him.

Sending the form and money needed today is very anxiety stricken. Is it going to get in the right hands, are they going to have everything they need, are they going to approve us, and how soon is this all going to take?? Can you feel the anxiety!!!! I want this little boy more than anything in life. Loving a little boy strictly by picture...I feel it, he is our son! We are his parents.

Please pray that this next process is done very quickly with no delays! Thanks. :)

Finally....Home Study

We are finally done with our home study.....Yah. We meet with our social worker this friday for completion and then off to Immigration for hopefully their blessing. It's getting closer and closer. There are so many feelings going on inside. Happiness, anxiety, questions, more happiness. Is he going to love us? what does he look like now? We just CAN'T WAIT!!!!

We're coming Bryce, hold on, WE are Coming!

It's been a long while

It's been a long while since we've been on here to update. A lot has happened, unfortunately, Tom's father passed away unexpectedly. It's brought much sadness to our home. Tom is battling the issues he had with his father and now not having the opportunity to really clear them up. Worrying about his mother, his father was the typical generation gap, "The man does everything". It saddens me that he will never get to meet his grandson, Tom's first child. I'm glad he had the opportunity to see all the Beautiful pictures of him and get to 'know him" without really getting to meet him.
With all this going on, it has pushed some of our last few things back. We now have to wait another 3 weeks before we can get the home study officially completed. Tom needs to obtain one more court paper. They we can get it all sent to UCSIS. We got so close and now I feel we are so far away.
It makes me sooooo sad everyday that he can't be rocked to sleep at night, can slide down the slide we got for him, let the dogs lick him to death. I want him home SOOOOO much. I know God will only give us what we can handle, but right now, I feel like I'm about to exploded that it's too much. Please pray for us and that Bryce will come home to us SOON!
We are now conducting a fundraiser for all of those interested and love coffee.
Please visit our site at: http://www.JustLoveCoffee.com/TheBaumanns

Thank you everyone for your support and for listening to me ramble on! :)

More pics

The Wells family is also from RR and currently in Ukraine, ironically enough at the same orphange as Bryce. So Lydia has blessed us with new pictures of Bryce. As you can see he is happy, full of smiles and WALKING(he's the one on the right in all grey holding nurses hand)!!! Very exciting. Monday, I600a is off to immigration awaiting an appointment for fingerprinting. Wish us luck.

I just want to say that we have been blessed with such wonderful friends, all excited for Bryce to come into our lives and theirs!

latest update

We received a nice gift last night....New pictures of Bryce Vanya. He's definitely getting fed well, he's got "meat" to him. And a beautiful smile.

papers..papers..papers

We are getting a little closer to getting our son. We've just sent over some of the lengthy paperwork to our coordinator, lucky enough, not too much had to be corrected. Without Meredith and McKenna, I would be completely lost. It's great knowing they get everything perfect before sending it over to the Ukraine.
We also got some promising news that our facilitator is hoping to be at Bryce's orphanage soon and will have a new update with hopefully new pictures. We can't wait. Tom is so excited, he went and bought him, his first outfit from Dad. Tom is big into Guy Harvey, fishing apparel, and found one in little guy sizes along with an adorable pair of plaid shorts. Can't wait!!!!

Day of Freedom

We'd like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and safe holiday. Full of food,laughs and loves. As we celebrate our day of freedom, please keep your prayers for the freedom we are working so hard to give Bryce Vanya out of that orphanage. And please keep all those other little angels, in your prayers that they will also find a loving family to give them their freedom.
Happy 4th of July everyone!