USCIS approval!!

We just heard word that our case was approved today by USCIS!  This is the big thing we've been waiting for that now gives us the official o.k. to adopt from a foreign country!  We'll receive the official approval by mail next week which we'll then have notarized and apostilled, and then off we'll send it to our agency who sends it to Colombia.  Once it's in Colombia it will be translated along with the rest of our dossier documents that we sent to our agency this week.  After translation our documents will be reviewed by the orphanage and then they'll issue us an official referral of Maria.  With that official referral we can then file the I800 (the other big piece of an international adoption).  I don't know how long it will be for us to receive approval once we file the I800 as it seems to vary.  Once we receive approval, we will apply for our visas, and then we can travel to Colombia to get Maria!  We're still hopeful that it will be the end of January.  Please pray with us that it won't be later than that!  We trust God and know that His timing is perfect, but we will pray the desire of our hearts, which is to be with Maria as soon as possible! :)

For fellow adoptive families, here is the time line that we all love to know about each other's cases:
9/11/09 - home study complete
10/21/09 - USCIS finger printing
11/12/09 - I800A approval