This Grateful Heart: Summer 2011...

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Summer 2011...

Before the year ends...thought I'd squeeze in a sweet little summer clip I recently found. Love my little family! More to come soon..and so glad for that promise!

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Our Adoption Journey

3/5/2011 Returned to Mt. Juliet- Family of 5 complete!
3/4/2011 Midnight flt out of Addis
3/3/2011 Embassy Appointment - free to roam!
2/28/2011 Brought Ty home with us...forever
2/26/2011 Arrived in Addis Ababa
2/25/2011 Left for Ethiopia
2/17/2011 Cleared to Travel...waiting on Embassy Date
1/26/2011 Arrived home 5:30 pm
1/25/2011 Left Addis at midnight
1/25/2001 Court Appt..Gotcha!!
1/22/2011 Arrived in Addis Ababa 9:30pm
1/21/2011 Left for Ethiopia
10/24/2010 Accepted Referral... Yay!
10/20/2010 Rec'd Referral!!
9/7/2010 #19...getting closer!!
7/19/2010 Yay we're #25!!
4/16/2010 We've moved down to #44..yay!!
3/18/2010 We are now #57 per CHI
3/4/2010 Officially on the List!!!! #60
2/25/2010 CHI sent our dossier to D.C. then onto the Ethiopian Embassy
2/24/2010 Mailed in all of Dossier to CHI
2/23/2010 Everything is now Sec.of State Ceritified!!
10/1/2009 Homestudy approved by CHI (finally!)
8/19/2009 Rec'd first copy of Homestudy to review/revise
8/5/2009 Last Meeting with Catholic Charities (home visit)
8/5/2009 Today we had our USCIS Fingerprinting
7/21/2009 Second Homestudy Meeting with Catholic Charities
7/14/2009 Mailed fingerprints for FBI record request
7/13/2009 Both went downtown for FBI fingerprinting
7/13/2009 Rec'd appt for USCIS fingerprinting (sch. for Aug)
7/2/2009 Mailed I-600A request form to USCIS
6/25/2009 Received acceptance from CHI
6/17/2009 Mailed application for Children's Hope Int. (CHI)
6/12-13/2009 Attended Catholic Charities Adoption class
6/3/2009 First Homestudy Meeting with Catholic Charities
5/23/2009 Decide upon international adoption (Ethiopia) and to use C.Charities
5/12/2009 Visited Catholic Charities, discussed International adoption options
4/2009 Visit with Bethany Christian Services, discussed domestic adoption
3/2009 Began researching adoption
2008-2009 Discussed 3rd child, prayed a lot about adoption