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Our Adoption Time Line

Here’s a time line of our adoption process. There were times it felt longer and others shorter, but I think it’s fairly decent. January 19, 2010—Decided to adopt January –Mailed out application to first agency March 10—Denied through agency (religious differences) March 12—New application to new agency (West Sands Adoptions) March 17—Began home study March 24—Approved by West Sands Adoptions June 30—Home study complete...

April 3, 2011
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November is National Adoption Month.

I didn’t know there was a month dedicated to adoption, but there is. If you google it, there’s great information out there. I must admit, I’m a little nervous about what people’s questions will be when we bring our little girl home, but I’m doing my best to find snarky appropriate answers to rude curious strangers and associates. “Is she yours?”  me: No, I...

November 2, 2010
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Going to Ethiopia!

Well, not right away…but sooner than we thought! Can I just scream “YAY!!” right now? We got our call today…I was a little confused, because I was told, “We got your date for court. You can travel on December 17th, arriving on the 18th. And court is on the 21st, so you can catch a flight out on the 22nd and be home before...

October 21, 2010
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Collecting Items for Orphanage….

I have decided to ask everyone to please take this opportunity to help out an orphanage in Ethiopia. I’m going to take a suitcase (or more) of things for the orphanage our soon-to-be daughter is coming from. I asked our agency what they need and she gave me a list. I’m planning on taking over some clothes, but I’m sure they wouldn’t mind more....

October 7, 2010
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We have a referral!!!

Thursday night, (2 days ago) I was doing a spa night for the teen girls at church. Paul was out of town all week so I had the boys with me, and Gab as my lovely assistant. Midway through my phone rang…I saw a 435 area code (Utah) and figured it was my sister, so I figured I’d call her when I was done....

September 25, 2010
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Quick Update.

Not much going on right now. Still waiting, but September is the estimated month that we should get a referral, so I’m praying hard! We got our USCIS approval today, so that’s a big load off. A few weeks after we sent in our form, I got a letter back from them saying our dossier was not complete and needed to be re-done. I...

September 7, 2010
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Finished Book 2.

I actually finished a book with chapters!! I’m embarrassed to say it’s the first one since Dean was born. Yep, 2 years…I used to be an avid reader, but other things and fatigue usually change my time I once spent for reading. Anyway, it was a good book. Upbeat, positive yet keeping a real perspective. I recommend it to anyone that knows us 🙂

July 18, 2010
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New Update!

So for awhile now we’ve been waiting on our home study to be complete. Yesterday, we got the completed report back and we passed 🙂 Yay!! So we mailed off our I-600a, which is a petition to adopt an orphan. That goes to USCIS and takes from 5 weeks-3 months to be approved. We also mailed our dossier to our adoption agency, where it...

July 1, 2010
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Two More Things Done…

Sunday was the last of our home study visits. Now we just wait for the report papers so we can send them off to where they need to go. The other thing was the yard sale…we got rained out the first weekend, but now I’m glad we did. We ended up with a couple friends (they get together every year and have a big...

June 1, 2010
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