Amazing News!

"Amazing News for the Saltzman Family!" This was the subject of the email we received last night. When we opened the email it said, "Your adoption was heard by the court and it was approved TODAY." We were shocked and SO EXCITED!!!!!!!! Apparently it all happened last minute and they didn't have time to notify us.

You can see a picture of the courts below. This is where an Ethiopian judge looked at our paperwork and Faith's paperwork and stamped his approval. She was given our name. She is officially OUR DAUGHTER!!!!!

Joseph is officially Faith's big brother!!! His grandma made this shirt for him and now he can finally wear it! :)

You might be asking what's next, everybody is asking us this. Now we wait to hear about when we can go pick her up. We have to wait until we can get a U.S. Embassy appointment. They say that we can get in within 3 or 4 weeks. At the U.S. Embassy we will get a visa for Faith so that she can travel to the States and become a U.S. citizen!!!

Thank you for your prayers and your encouragement through all of this! We can't wait to go get our little girl. Please continue to pray for us during this last time of waiting and then as we transition into a family of four.

On top of this big transition we just heard that the owner of the house we're living in wants to sell the house so we are moving. Yesterday we put a deposit down on a great apartment close to a park!! We're excited about our new place. We'll be busy moving the next couple of weeks. We're hoping to be completely settled into our new place before we travel to go get Faith Bethlehem.