Fingerprints done! And excuse to go to Ikea

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This morning we got our fingerprints completed biometrically by US immigration. We had heard stories of it taking hours, but thanks to the friendly and efficient staff at the non descript strip mall building next to Chuck E. Cheese that we never knew was there we were done before our appt time. :-) yea!

Our last pages of paperwork arrived at Immigration as well this morning. So we're very happy to have those there to continue processing. Once that processes in the US it will move on to translation and processing in China. We have a deadline for all that to be completed mid March so we're praying for its completion.

If anything we've continued to realize everything is on Gods time and He is teaching us lessons of patience and grace along the way. :-) we continue to have and (when we feel like we don't have it, pray God will give it to us) faith that He is orchestrating every element of this process and He is always for us and faithful. 

We also picked up an excuse to go back to Ikea this week(which who needs an excuse when you can also get delicious decently priced Swedish cafeteria food. They have lingonberries!) Bailor's new bed assembled we realized, what's going to hold the mattress up? A Google search later we realized the slat system was missing. It's included, but we forget to pick up the additional box. :-) Oh well, like I said we don't need an excuse to go back, but now we have one. :-)

God bless America and Swedish flat packed furniture! 


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