We have an official H2K Day!

So I have already mentioned we are leaving for Kenya.  I wrote this a while ago ... so here's our 'formal' announcement lol

We have booked our plane tickets and we are: Herrings to Kenya on June 4!

We are so excited to FINALLY be going.  This would not be possible if we did not have a house.
We found a house to live in .... it's AMAZING and are thrilled to have such a beautiful home to live in while we are in Kenya.  We are thankful to the family that agreed to rent to us!
Here's our house:

We are living just outside of Nairobi.

There is much to be done before June 4. We need to pack up our home here and hopefully find someone to rent it. The realtor is coming today.  And just general packing of items that we are going to bring to Kenya. We are bringing the stuff in our luggage, we are not shipping anything, so we are very limited.

We will not have our referral (information about the children that we are going to adopt) by the time we go.  Since we have had this 2 month delay with the FBI background check. So we will go to Kenya and get settled in with our family of 4 ..... and wait to become a family of 6 :)

Documents part 2 of 2 ... Done and already IN Kenya!

Our FBI documents were retrieved from the Kenya Embassy in Washington DC last Friday by our courier. We used Caring Hands Services for our courier for these documents.  They were really great.  They communicated well with us.  Let us know when our documents were authenticated at the State Department,  that they were dropped of at the Kenya Embassy and let us know when they would be ready for pick, they agreed to Fedex our documents directly to Kenya and sent copies of our documents to us. So I highly recommend them :)! I filled out the Fedex air bill online and faxed it to them.
We received our copies via the air bill I enclosed with our account number on Monday.  I checked in on how our delivery to Kenya was doing on Fedex.com .... our FBI documents arrived at our Kenyan adoption agency on Monday evening!  That was amazing, super fast service ... it was due to arrive today (Wednesday)!!
Yesterday was May 1, a holiday in most places including Kenya,  but not here.  They were off from work so hopefully today we will have some news.
Our US adoption agency faxed a cover letter for our documents and they needed to submit  another document on our behalf as well.  Those were both faxed on Monday and the originals were sent DHL.
SO now we are hoping all our documents are in order and acceptable to be submitted to the NAC (National Adoption Committee). We have already been approved by them pending the arrival of these documents.  The NAC only meets once a month, we never know when,  usually the 3rd week ... but not always.  Documents need to be submitted to them by the 5th of the month to be seen at that months meeting.  That is our hope that everything is in order and can be submitted to the NAC by Friday May 4th for the May NAC meeting!
Prayers PLEASE :)

After the NAC gives us the final approval to adopt 2 children,  then our Kenya adoption agency will work our our referral (of our 2 children). This can take up to a couple months we are told. We will be already living in Kenya by that time :)

After we accept our referral (of our 2 children) then we need to finalize our US immigration approval for these specific 2 children > our 1-800! we are told this can take up to 90 days to get approval!

I will write more on that when the time comes :)