Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Paperwork Finally Done!!



Thanks to all of you who thought of us or prayed for us. Today at immigration went well and we are finally done all of our paperwork. As some of you may or may not know, today was our 2nd attempt at filing our I-600A in Louisville, KY. Our social worker suggested we file in person and then get our fingerprints done that same day. We attempted this for the 1st time over a month ago...But yes..Due to ME, we failed. I brought the wrong birth certificate with me. The cute one that you get from the hospital with your footprints on the back...Yes, that's the one I brought by mistake. Not even sure why I have it saved but unfortunately it was mixed in with all of my other "official" documents and there you have it! It worked out well since I did need to get another version of my birth certificate for china anyway and did so while we were in Maine on vacation a couple of weeks ago. So today, bright and early at 6 am, we roused the girls, put them in the car and drove to Louisville for a 8 am appointment. All went well and we were able to get our fingerprints and be on our way back home by 8:30 which was an answer to prayer for us! So thanks to everyone who has been thinking and praying for us!

We are hoping and praying that we will be able to find a little girl to adopt off our agency's waiting child list that they should be receiving within the next month. So keep up all of the prayers! While we are waiting, as that's one of the most difficult aspects, I may try and post a few pictures of the girls to see how posting pictures works!

There should be a couple of pictures of the girls. One of each of them at our yearly vacation to the beach, one of Mackenzie at her ballet recital and then one of Ainsley on her 3rd birthday.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Adoption process finally started!

Our family is excited to announce that we have finally "officially" started the adoption process. We actually started our homestudy to adopt a little girl from China back in June and are almost complete! Tomorrow is our last meeting with our social worker who will then put together our homestudy paperwork. We still need to file our I-600A and get fingerprinted but that should be our last step in the paperwork process. We look forward to keeping everyone posted on our adoption process as it progresses. Jeff and I are glad to be almost done the paperwork though! And Mackenzie is looking forward to traveling to China and to meet her new sister. Ainsley will be not be traveling with us but it also looking forward to her new sister as that will make her a big sister and not just the baby of the family:) I will try to be faithful in updating the blog as new events arise. Thanks for praying and thinking of us during this exciting time!