A few details

To answer the questions posed in the comments box yesterday :):

How did we find out?
I emailed the agency with other questions, and tacked on the potentially unanswerable question, "Any news about a court date for us?" Just so happens that we were on their list of folks to contact that day; they just hadn't gotten to us yet!
Group A is the letter to identify all of the families with our agency at this same point ~ provided we all pass court and have similar embassy dates, we might be in Eth. together to meet our kids.

Yes ~ we have to wait until after the court date to book flights. Actually, we have to wait to have an embassy date assigned - the appt. at which we pay for and receive the girl's visas to enter the US. We should be able to travel in late Feb.

There is a great travel agency out of WA state - Susan Parr travel - which books this trip quite regularly for adoptive parents, and tends to find great deals. I'm sure we'll book with them again.

It's all feeling quite real today.

We sent out letters today to be carried over to the girls by a traveling family. Lots of bright colored paper and stickers... but I can't wait to replace them with real hugs!