Elliana's Room

We finished our baby girl's room a few weeks ago and I'm finally getting around to posting a few pictures. I LOVE it! It turned out so pretty and girly- it was a very fun change from the boy's room that we did back in December with the lego table and Man Beds (Click to see the pictures of that project)!!!

Lately I find myself just sitting in the rocking chair dreaming of holding her and reading her stories there. The boys like to just hang out in her room sometimes too- talking about what she'll be doing when she comes home. We have all been praying so hard that we will bring "Little Sister" home soon... we are READY!

Her crib (with the cute bitty baby from her auntie & cousins!)





I found this old dresser at an antique consignment store at the coast- painted the exact color I was looking for! Score!
And yes, we have like 5 of the same pictures around her room- I can't wait to fill those frames with some updated ones when she comes home!


Just had to have a picture of the closet: didn't daddy do an amazing job putting all those shelves in? And she is not lacking in clothes either!




One of my favorite things in the room. A friend made this art for her- it's Psalm 139, my favorite Psalm that I memorized about a year ago right when we were starting this process. I love it. Go to her etsy shop if you want to see more of her work- it is so cute!


Cute letter E.

Visa Approval!!! Oh, and pink walls too!

We got the all important letter from the USCIS in the mail a week ago saying that our I600 has been aproved... in other words: Elliana is approved to get a visa! WHOO HOO!!!



We have been slightly shocked at the speediness of our process thus far. In most cases this seems to happen about 2 months from referral, but in our case it had only been one month! Now there are still a bunch of other things that still need to happen on the Korea side, but from other Korean adoptions I've seen, unless something goes wrong, we could be traveling in 3 to 6 weeks! YIKES!!! Now we shouldn't get our hopes up, but we are going to try to be as prepared as possible to travel in 4 weeks and if it takes longer then at least we won't be running around at the last minute trying to finish things up. And believe me we have PLENTY to do! I am sure that no matter what we will still be running around at the last minute!



Speaking of things to do, we got one thing checked off of the list: painting her room! Allyson came over to help and we had fun painting it a pretty soft pink color. Oh, and we did have some other helpers as well... it was starting to get a little crowded in that little room after while. But oh how special it was to have everyone over to celebrate and prepare for little Elliana! She has no idea how much she is loved already!!! Now on to the rest of the room!

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Oh the memories!!!