Our Family's Journey.: The girls with their new African doll

Our Adoption Timeline

December 11th - 18th, 2009
Traveling to Ethiopia to bring Adam Ezekial!!!! Gotcha day Dec 13th, 2009!!!!!!

November 12th, 2009
Passed court today!!!!! Zek is our son forever!!!!!

October 21st, 2009
next steps call with case manager

October 13th, 2009
transition call with AGCI's family education coordinator

October 7th, 2009
Referral day!!! We got to see pictures of our 3 week old baby boy for the first time!!!!

October 6th, 2009
Officially #2 on the boys list and #3 on the siblings list!

September 3rd, 2009
Officially #4 on the boys list and #7 on the siblings list!!!!!!!

August 20th, 2009
FDL arrived!!

August 7th, 2009
We are officially #8 on the boys and #9 on the siblings!

July 31st-Aug 1st, 2009
Had our fundraising garage sale - raised $1050.00

July 22nd, 2009
Biometrics appointment (fingerprints with USCIS)

July 13th, 2009
Officially #9 on boys and #10 on siblings! removed from girls list at our request

June 26th, 2009
Dossier looks great and we made the wait list!!! #14 boys, #15 siblings and #40 girls

June 23rd, 2009
Home Study final approval with AGCI and background check came in. Home Study ready to be picked up!
Dossier mailed to AGCI!!!!

June 22nd, 2009
Changes to our home study made and sent back to AGCI for approval. Received Christie's passport in the mail

June 19th, 2009
Sent With Eyes Wide Open workbook to AGCI and sent in our I600A application

June 16th, 2009
Hear that AGCI has our rough draft of our home study in hand!

June 14th, 2009
Email adoption support center our changes to the rough draft

June 9th, 2009
Received rough draft of home study via email! yay

June 1st, 2009
Had our physicals and TB test. also recieved our last adoption class certificate. We are now DONE with getting together all of our documents!

May 21st, 2009
Christie went and applied for passport (adam already has his)

May 20th, 2009
Picked up criminal arrest letter and took a bunch of documents to Adoption Support Center (our home study agency) - all we have to do for the home study now is our medical checks (appointments on June 1st) yay!

May 18th, 2009
Sent off Power of Attorney to be state certified

May 16th, 2009
Had a bunch of documents notarized

May 15, 2009
Homestudy appointment in home. Fingerprinted for Homestudy and requested our criminal history letters.

May 13, 2009
Dossier run through call with AGCI

May 11, 2009
Received Dossier packet in mail

May 9, 2009
updated Belles (our dog) vaccines for homestudy

May 6, 2009
1st homestudy office appointment and overnighted orientation packet and first payment to AGCI

May 2, 2009
had all of our orientation packet notarized and approved for LOC

April 30, 2009
orientation call with AGCI

April 27, 2009
formal application approved!

April 23, 2009
turned in formal application to AGCI

April 22, 2009
preapplication approved

April 18, 2009
turned in preapplication to AGCI

Early April 2009
decide to definitely adopt from Ethiopia

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The girls with their new African doll

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