OUR REFERAL!!!

I cannot believe that I am writing this! This is unbelievable, so surreal, impossible... but nothing is impossible with God! Today, less than 48 hours after receiving our approval, we received our referal. I worked today and finally was able to reach our family coordinater at our adoption agency about 11 am. She asked if I had checked my email today (I had not). She said that some families were receiving their referals today and I should check it to see. There were so many signs that this was actually happening but I still didn't believe it. I had to wait until my lunch at 12:30 to check my email. I told myself that if it were there I'd wait to open it with Greg. When I saw an email that said referal I didn't really believe it was for us(perhaps someone else has sent us theirs to see). I opened it and saw it was addressed to us and a thumbnail shot of a baby. I started screaming(remember that I was at work) "this is it! this is it! this is it!" Many of my coworkers came running as I opened the picture of the most beautiful baby girl I've ever seen. Seriously that is my impression. I always wondered what that moment would be like, what I'd think. I guess I'm already seeing her through mommy vision, because she is Beautiful and I mean BEAUTIFUL. She looks to be about 5 months old, not sure of her age yet. She is so bright eyed. We cannot post her picture until we pass court.
The courts close in Rwanda for the month of December so we cannot get a court date until January. We will travel probably late Jan. or Feb. No one really knows yet.
We were also expecting a baby that was older. We had requested 0-18 months but it seemed that most of the referals were at the higher end of peoples age ranges. We hoped for younger because we'd like to get her out of the orphanage as soon as possible but thought she would be older. It's wonderful to know she will spend a much smaller portion of her babyhood as an orphan.
I made Greg wait till he was with me to see it, he can't open his email at work anyway. When I got to Mom's I came rushing in with a video camera and asked Aiden and Mom if they wanted to see a picture of Carrington. Aiden was cute, very excited. Mom crying and saying "are you serious?" before she even saw the picture.
I cannot believe this recent turn of events. Three days ago I thought that we were at least 4 months away from this day, today I am looking at my daughter's beautiful face! God is so good.