For we walk by faith, not by sight.: Our big day....

We have our date !! We will be leaving SD very soon in order to take our kids to Texas and then fly out several days before our appointment. The timing is perfect!! Praise the Lord. Now, off to book plane tickets and an apartment :)!!!

Our Adoption Timeline

Week of April 11 - Found this child. Started praying and seeking the Lord over him and the Lord's will for us.
Week of April 18 - Lots of praying and lots of research.
April 21 - Mike and I in agreement that the Lord is directing our steps towards adoption.
April 25- Commit to the Lord to bring this child home, our son, if He wills.
Week of May 2 - Still researching social workers/agencies for home study. Need to start the home study process this week, in hopes to get somethings completed before our GA trip.
May 3 - Contact many social workers...we only have 3 options, they are all agencies....we shall see.
May 11 - one full month has passed since we found this child. We have chosen a social worker and are praying for direction as we choose our in country facilitator.
May 16 - YAY! we have our facilitator!
May 19 - filing for passports today :)
5 -24 Mike and I State and FBI fingerprints
May 16 - working on paperwork for our social worker/home study. Need to get passports this week and need to make a commitment to an in country facilitator.
5 - 25 Kids physicals and pictures
5 - 26 Mike and I physicals
5 - 26 turned in all home study documents, now wait for home visit!
June 19 - home from GA...passports and immigration papers arrive....just found out July 11th our countires adoptions will stop for some time in order to change authority.
June 27 - POA forms and money sent to our country
USCIS immigration forms sent and Homestudy visit on July 7th!
July 11 - Working hard on Dossier
Aug 17 - Still delayed in waiting on FBI clearance.
Aug 23 - GOT FBI CLEARANCE!! Finalized homestudy!
Aug. 28 - Waiting on immigrations approval
Sept. 15 Biometrics appt. for immigrations.
Sept 22 - Mail homestudy addendum to USCIS
Sept. 23 - Go to Pierre for Apostilles!
Oct 11 - got pink slip from Immigrations and overnighted their requested info to them.
10 - 25 Praise the Lord! Got Immigrations Approval in the mail !
10-26 Mike drives to Pierre for the last 2 Apostilles and GOODBYE Dossier, we mail it off to Ukrain* today!!!! Praising the Lord.
Nov 6 - Dossier still not arrived to our facilitator...waiting and praying
11 - 7 Our Dossier arrives into safe hands..praying for 11/10 submission date
11-30 WE ARE SUBMITTED!
Jan. 18...got appt. date...YAY
Feb. 8..SDA appt. date
2/10 meet him for the first time
3/2 court, he is ours!
March 16, 2012 Gotcha Day!
March 25 American Citizen !

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Our big day....

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