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Are you ready for the incredible news from our SDA interview?!

The interview went very well. Yvennya got us in as the first appointment which meant that we had first choice. The psychologist that interviewed us was very pleasant and Yvennya said that she really liked us. We ended up choosing the first set of children we were shown ...

We are been given a referral to adopt three children! Boy aged 7, girl aged 6, and a boy aged 5. They are all from the same family. Their mother was raising them by herself and she became terribly ill and died. These three children have been in the orphanage for about two years. They are healthy and just waiting for a family to love them and take them home. We pray that we are that family.

We now wait for the referral paperwork to be processed. Once everything is official, we will travel about 80 km outside of Kiev to the orphanage to visit (on Friday). After it is determined that we do want to follow through, and the orphanage director believes we will be good parents, we petition for our court appearance.

We are in shock, extremely excited, and can't wait to meet them! We will forward pictures when we can. We will leave Kiev on Friday -- not sure about internet connection of where we are going. We will be in touch again soon!

Thanks again to all of our friends who are supporting us back home! Prayers were definitely answered today -- amazing things fell into place this morning to bring us to these specific children.