Hi Family and friends! We hope this time of year finds everyone healthy and happy as we joyfully await celebrating Christmas!

Having not posted in awhile, we wanted to give everyone a quick update. The adoption committee in Burundi met back in August and matched the rest of the families from our agency that applied in 2015 and half of the families from 2016 with children! What great news this was. Burundi continues to be progressive in their attitude towards international adoption and is working towards streamlining procedures to make things move a little bit quicker for families and the kiddos. Our agency is hopeful that the next time the committee meets, the remaining 2016 families (which is us!) would be matched with a child. The committee is expected to meet at the beginning f 2018. We are hopeful that we will be matched then. That would mean a trip to Burundi to meet our child, then we would come home and wait for the remaining processes to take place before we would travel back to Burundi and bring our kiddo home for good!

We are in the process now of updating our home study and renewing our 1-800A approval for from the USCIS. More paperwork fun! The good news is this was much less extensive then the first round of paperwork.

We want to thank you all for your continued support and prayers through this process. We are still very excited about this journey!

For anyone who is interested in donating to our adoption fundraising page, the address is www.adopttogether.org/baucherfamily

Take advantage of those tax deductible donations while you can in 2017!

Thanks again and we hope your family has a blessed and safe Christmas!

Love,

The Baucher family