Ready, Set, GO!!!!! Here we come Lil Man :)

Hi Everyone!!!! It's been awhile since our last post and we are getting closer to heading back to Russia, so we figured we'd leave one more message. Summer is officially over. We ended our summer with the wonderful wedding of Ryan and Michelle. What a beautiful day!!! It was great to see all of our family and friends - we had a blast!!! School has started for Nicole and the first 2 days went well. We are both just making sure that everything is going to be taken care of at work while we are gone. We are still scheduled to leave on Friday Sept 11 and we are READY!!! We pretty much have everything packed - except for our clothes, which we plan to do Thursday night. We have received our Visas, our flights are confirmed, we have our donations to the orphanage ready (we purchased diapers/formula for the children and some items for the caregivers as well - THANKS TO ALL WHO CONTRIBUTED), we have all of Lil Man's stuff ready, our international cell phone has arrived, and we just have to go to the bank tomorrow to get our NEW UNMARKED BILLS (just the way the Russians like them). I don't think we have forgotten anything, but will double check (probably quadruple check) our lists before we leave Friday morning. We have court on Sept 15 and once we know the time we will let everyone know so you can send up all of your prayers during that time. Again, we should have internet access while we are there, but will not be sending out emails as we update the blog - so remember to save it to your favorites and check it if you are interested to see what's going on. We can't believe that we are finally at this point and are full of excitement, nerves, happiness, love and many other emotions!!! Know that each of you are with us in spirit as we travel....we love you all and can't wait to share some good news with you in the upcoming week!