In May we spent two wonderful weeks with Baiba and Agnese as part of the Latvian requirements for adoption. If you missed out on the details you can read my blog and see photos at: http://www.payneadoption.blogspot.com

What a great and unique adventure it was.

We have just received our travel dates for our second court date and official "Gotcha Day. We will be bringing them home just over two years from when we first saw them. Then there will be one more required trip some time in the fall.

The good news is our airfare is all taken care of for this trip as long as United cooperates with our use of frequent flyer miles. Three people are generously purchasing tickets for us with their miles and I have enough of my own for the fourth. We can't officially book our flights until we get our approval from immigration, which we hope will be any day now. Prayers for the logistics of that working out are welcome.

Our new fundraising total is now $31,326. out of our original goal of $42,754!

For this next trip we will need to take about $6,000. cash and at this point we're around $2,000. short. We're not worried though. Worry is something we've given up spending energy on. God has provided just enough just in time all along; we don't think he's going to drop us on our heads at this point.

It's funny how everything is relative. $2,000. looks like a drop in the bucket when you think about where we started.

Our continued thanks and undying gratitude for all that each of you has done to support us in this.