Our Journey to becoming a Forever Family: My first babies

Guinness & Gracie

Adoption Timeline

1/22/08 - We decided to adopt a little boy from Russia

2/2/08 - I did a lot of research this month to find our agency

3/5/08 - We went to our first meeting at Wide Horizons for Children and submitted our application.

3/20/08 - Started our mountain of paperwork with WHFC

4/22/08 - We meet with our social worker and our Home study began

5/1/08 - Started collecting more paperwork for our Dossier for Russia

5/16/08 - Went to our pre-adoptive class at WHFC

6/5/08 - Had our home study visit

7/9/08 - Completed our home study and was officially approved

7/14/08 - Home study submitted to immigration

8/18/08 - Sent dossier to WHFC

8/29/08 - Dossier completed and sent to Moscow

9/1/08 - We our officially, "a waiting family"

9/10/08 - Went to WHFC for our orientation class on Russia

12/9/08 - We learned our dossier was sent to Bryansk Region in Russia

1/22/09- I started our Blog

3/31/09 - Started our paperwork for Voronezh region

5/15/09- We received our referral today from Bryansk

6/17/09- 6/21/09 First trip to Bryansk Russia

6/19/09- We met our son. (a great day!) he is 19 months old

9/12/09- We were given a special baby shower, hosted by sister Mary.

9/14/09- We got the call for our court date! It's Sept 30th.

9/27/09- 10/17/09- Trip #2 Leave for Russia for our 3 week stay.

9/28/09- 8 Doctor medical exams in Moscow

9/29/09- Went to Bryansk to visit with Sean!

9/30/09- Court day. The Judge said yes!

10/1/09-10/12/09- 10 day wait in Moscow

10/12/09- Overnight train to Bryansk

10/13/09- Gotcha Day! We are a family forever! Sean is 23months.

10/16/09- US Embassy Moscow

10/17/09- Fly Home!

10/18/09- Our first day home as a Family!

Our Journey to becoming a Forever Family

Saturday, January 24, 2009

My first babies

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