2nd Trip!

It's official!

We are leaving for our 2nd trip to Kaliningrad in the evening on November 23rd!

Our court date is Monday, November 30th!

We will be back home December 1st!

If all goes as planned, we will head back in Kaliningrad on December 14th and arrive home with Alexandra Kalin Kneiding on December 19th!!!

Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers during the rest of this journey!!!

Love,

Keith and Jennifer

Day #3

GREAT Day today!

Our little one is AWESOME! Things seem to click very well!

She's shy, has a sweet smile, and has a beautiful light within in her eyes!

We've really enjoyed watching her interact with her caregivers. They genuinely love her and she loves them!

Our regional representative, Tatiana, and her team have been fantastic! Kaliningrad is beautiful, the people are friendly, and we look forward to our return for our court date in late November!

THANKS for your continued prayers, support, & encouragement!!! We are tremendously thankful!!!

Love, Keith and Jennifer

1st Visit!!!

Well, it took us almost 24 hours to get from Michigan to Kaliningrad!

After a brief meeting this morning with the Minister of Education and a 2 hour car ride to the orphanage, Jennifer and I finally got meet her!

She is super cute and she has a tremendous personality!

Kaliningrad and our hosts here have been way above our expectations!

The total experience has been fantastic thus far!!!

Love,
Keith and Jennifer

GREAT News!

We know it's been awhile!

After receiving a long-anticipated phone call this week, Jennifer and I will be heading to Kaliningrad, Russia to meet a 20-month old little girl!!!

We are extremely excited, nervous, overwhelmed, & thankful all rolled into one!

We would like to THANK everybody for all of their prayers, support, well wishes, and kind words! We're grateful for our tremendous support network of friends and family!!!

More to come after our 1st trip!

Love,
Keith & Jennifer

Kaliningrad!!!

Hello,

Great News! We have been registered to the region of Kaliningrad in Russia!

Our agency operates in a couple different ways. So we could end up getting a referral from a different region within Russia if they find a child that meets our specifications.

This does mean that we are "officially" waiting in Kaliningrad!

Interesting facts about Kaliningrad:

• Kaliningrad is located on the southern end of the Baltic Sea between Lithuania and Poland.
• Kaliningrad used to a territory of Germany up until after WWII
  

We still estimate our first travel date to happen in the fall, but things are seeming more "real".

This is very exciting!

THANKS for your prayers and support!

Love,
The Kneidings

March 4, 2009

Hey All,

It's been awhile...again. Sorry!

There is really nothing new to report at this time (other than the blog background change).

Things continue to slowly progress and the adoption journey continues...

Please continue to pray for all families that have made a commitment to adopt children. The adoption journey can be a long, bumpy ride with many roadblocks along the way. Please pray that all families remain strong and faithful throughout each individual journey.

Also, please pray for the children that are in an adoptive situation. These kids need love in more ways than any of us could ever imagine.

THANKS for your prayers and THANKS for reading!

Love,
The Kneidings

It's been awhile...

Hey All,

It's been awhile. Sorry for taking so long to update.

Here's the latest information surrounding our adoption journey:

• Our agency has had a great response from the majority of "waiting families". This means things will continue to move forward with our agency. Definitely a good thing :-).
• Everything seems to be picking up it's pace a bit. So we may be taking our first trip sooner than expected (our initial thought is somewhere around September 2009).
• Along with Mom and Dad, Caleb, Micah, and Seth are getting more & more excited about their little sister and her arrival.
• Please continue to pray for our little girl in Russia (her accommodations, her health, her birth mother who has made such a tough decision, etc.), please continue to pray for our family as we continue along our adoption journey, and please continue to pray for other families that have taken a tremendous step in faith and are on their own adoption journey.

Well, that's it for now!

THANKS for reading!

Love, The Kneidings