WOW, can't believe all that has been done, but MORE to do

I want to share some dates and what all has taken place in our adoption and in-between, so here we go...

4/16/12 at 9:06pm we received a call of our referral of our little Sholey Joy and then we had to wait to post any pictures or information about her until we received word of our "LOA" (letter of acceptance). 

4/20/12 Pre-approval  

4/30/12 we received our "LOA" and on 5/1 we shared (on our blog) a beautiful picture of our little girl God had chosen for us.

5/2/12 we had a little mess up on the Letter of Acceptance and we had to have China make a correction and mail it back so we could send our I-800 to the USCIS.

5/8/12 had one of our bathrooms re-painted and finished 

5/10/12 we received our revised "LOA" and now ready for the I-800 forms, William and I stayed up until 1:30am filling out the form.

5/11/12 sent off our I-800 with FedEx 

5/14/12 went to doctor to start our Hepatitis A & B shots

5/15/12 called to make sure travel agency received our pre-paperwork and we finished Sholey's room

5/17/12 we received our visas and had our daughter (Ashley's) Reveal Party and found out the gender of our grand-baby
5/18/12 Kelly, our pastors daughters wedding (it was so beautiful and so much fun)

5/19/12 our daughter Ashley and Bethany (Colby's fiancé) both had their graduation at the same place and the same time. (this was a blessing)

5/20/12 Colby and Bethany had wedding shower, Bethany's church gave them

5/21/12 Sholey received her care package we had sent her 

5/31/12 we received a letter about our I-800 Request for Evidence (mistake) and got together the paperwork needed and got it in the mail the next day for them to be able to finish it (they received it on 6/4/12 by 8am

6/9/12 received our approval for I-800, Ashley hosted a wedding shower for her brother at our house, had about 31 people at our home, it was a lot of fun

6/13/12 finished the last part of the paperwork for the I-800 provisional approval and emailed the NVC (national visa center) to make sure they had our visa petition and they had received it and it's in their system and assigned a case number (this is GOOD).  Now the case has to be forwarded to the assigned US Embassy/Consulate General.  

We are WAITING now for our NVC letter to send to our agency and then off for the appointment to be set for us to make our Travel Plans~  (this can not come soon enough for us, but in fear that it may conflict with our son (Colby's) wedding) God is in control and knows all that needs to be, so I trust HIM in what He provides.  

   

Meet, SHOLEY JOY WOOLVERTON

We are so excited and very proud to introduce you to our Sholey Joy Woolverton.  God has chosen this little girl for us, and us for her~  How blessed, honored and very thankful to the Lord for this precious little girl.  Our hearts are so overwhelmed with emotion and we can not wait to go get her and bring her HOME~

"I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you."
John 14:18

It is official that Sholey Joy is ours!  Yesterday, Monday, April 30th we received the best news...we received our "LOA" (letter of acceptance), which gives us all rights to share her photos and anything else we chose to share about her.  I will share that her cleft lip has been repaired, but her palate has not. We will have that done once we get home and adjusted.  Today, May 1st we received our overnight UPS package from China/Bethany Christian Services with our Post Referral Travel Packet.  We now apply for our travel visas, along with completing our I-800 documents to the USCIS and then we can bring Sholey Joy home.  

  
I still have more work to do and I will share more about Sholey later.  Continue to pray for her and for us.  Thank you from the bottom of our hearts~

Received our "PA"

"PA" (pre-approval) from CCCWA (China) on 4/20/12.  Now we wait on our "LOA" (letter of acceptance)  and then we will be able to share her beautiful pictures we have on our blog and also we will then get to send "Sholey Joy" care packages!  I can not wait to share with everyone things about Sholey, God KNEW she was already a Woolverton!  (You'll understand why I say this when we can share this information with everyone).  

Thank you for praying for this moment and please continue to pray for her and in preparing her to receive us in her little heart.  God Bless~

Sholey Joy Woolverton

We are JOYFUL to announce we've been MACTHED!  
God continues to shower His grace to us and we are so overwhelmed.  We are extremely excited and will be sharing more details in the days to come. 


"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows."  James 1:17 (NIV)

Saturday Morning, March 24th

Spring is here and everything is coming to life again with beautiful colors all around.  I sit back and think about the day when we will have Sholey and she will be running and playing around in the backyard and I'll be sharing with her "that all this beauty, especially her, God has made"!  I can't wait to share with her about Jesus and how much He loves her.  Oh how she's gonna love it here~
We still wait with JOY in our hearts for the day we get a referral of our "Sholey Joy", but the news this time around was a little different (which took place this past Monday the 19th).  We did not get an email just saying "NO MATCH", we received a email explaining that they (Bethany Christian Service & other U.S. Agency's) were having technical difficulties signing into the CCCWA website to do the matching.  The CCCWA was even saying they were having problems too and would extend the band-with next go round.  So with all this said we did not get a match, but not because Sholey wasn't on the list.  Now, we wait with great expectations for April and pray, pray, pray that this will be the month we will be able to meet our little girl.  

Monday, March 5th

I'm so excited! Ashley & I started a new Beth Moore Bible study tonight at church. It's gonna be GOOD!

I'm ready for God to move in me and continue to shape me into who he wants me to be.  

February 27th...

NO MATCH this time around again, we are a little discouraged, but we know it will come and when it does there's gonna be a CELEBRATION!  So we just continue to pray and we want to thank all our family and friends for the steadfast prayers.  We love all of you and are so thankful for how God has blessed us with genuine love~