Nothing yet....

Nothing yet....But we are very close to the 5 months that we were told that we would have to wait!! So it should be any day now!!! Keep thoes prayers going!! It would be a wonderful way to start the New Year!

Still no news

We are still waiting for our referral. We are hoping for it to come before Christmas but it could happen after the first of the year. We are just going crazy with excitement!!! Please keep the prayers for peace going!!!!!!

Waiting, waiting and still waiting

The wait is becoming more and more difficult with each passing day. I forgot how hard it could be. We have been so busy with paper work for the last 2 years that now I don't know what to do with myself!! I am not being very patient at all right now!! Say a prayer for us.....PLEASE!!

Le Toukoul

The orphanage that our little one will be coming from is called Le Toukoul. We have heard nothing but amazing stories of this wonderful place!!! Take a look at the happy people and children of Toukoul!!

LeToukoul

LeToukoul
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Registration!!!

We are registered in Ethiopia!!! So we are now in the system for the referral of a baby boy or Girl 0-15 months in age! Now you ask....how long??? They are telling us it could take 4-5 months to get a picture of the little one God has intended for us. I think we can do that, I mean come on we have come this far, what is a few more months... We are very pleased. Please continue to pray for patients and peace in this process.

Nothing yet...

We have not heard anything yet about being registered. We hope to hear something very soon. Please send prayers for peace and patients our way.

A funny thing...remember that birth certificate that was lost in the mail a few months ago causing me great distress?? Well guess what showed up in our mail box on Friday! Yep, there is was...... I guess it's nice to have an extra one laying around.

Looking up!

We heard from our agency last week that our paper work is in Ethiopia!!! We are just waiting to hear that we are registerd for a referral! Not much longer now. I would have bloged sooner but our computer crashed and burned after being attacked by a nasty virus. Our new computer is still not set up!! Oh well keeps our minds off of our wait for baby Davidson!

No News

We don't have news at this point.....however we are feeling a new sense of excitement! After all that has happened we have been pretty numb and the last few days it is starting to feel like this time may work. Our dossier is in DC which we are now being told could take up to six weeks to certify. Then it will take approximately another two weeks to get to Ethiopia and to have it interpreted and registered. She we have about 4 more weeks. HA! What is four more weeks. Please pray that we can keep our patients under control!! For now we are truly enjoying life, something we neglected to do over the last few years.........

Headed to DC

Our Dosser made it to Texas where agency reviewed our dossier and said it was perfect!! It is on it way to the Ethiopian embassy in Washington DC. From there it will go to Ethiopia where we will be registered!! We are getting so close!!!! It gets less stressful and more exciting everyday. Remind me of that statement when I seem frazzled....

On its way!!!

Yesterday at lunch I headed to the post office and overnighted our Dossier to Texas where our agency is located!!!!!!Once they receive it they will look it over one more time and send it to Washington DC where it will get authenticated by the Ethiopian Embassy. After that it will be sent to Ethiopia. This process will take approximately 3-4 weeks. Once it arrives it will go to the Ministry of health and they will give us an approximate wait time.....Lets pray its short!!

Dossier Complete

Our Dossier is done! On Thursday Wes's birth certificate was to be delivered to the Secretary of States office by 10:30 but it never arrived. I called UPS and they told me it was at the moment uncrackable and most likely lost. As you can imagine I was furious after loosing the first one in the mail! It did finally arrive at 4:50 but it was too late to complete until the next day. Since UPS does not deliver on the weekend we just got it today. I was going to mail it to our Ethiopia coordinator tomorrow but she is moving offices this week so I will have to mail it on Monday. At this point, what is one more week?? We are so close!!!!!!!!

UPS the better way to mail

Yes......The certified copy of Wes's birth certificate is truly lost in snail mail heaven. I had to reorder a new birth certificate and I overnighted it yesterday to the Secretary of states office in Wyoming. I paid to have it overnighted via UPS back to my front door step. This is a guarantee. I guess I should have done it this way to begin with but they told me they have never had a prob em in the past. Not anymore.....I should have the new certified copy by Friday!! Ha I don't believe it!

Snail Mail

Well....we still don't have the state certified copy of Wes's birth certificate. I would imagine it will be here in the next day or so and if not, it is lost. This is causing me a great deal of stress!!!! Where is it??? If I have to reorder his birth certificate and then send it off again.....Ohh lets not go there. Let pray it comes tomorrow.

Paper Work

After our garage sale on Saturday we came home to find the one piece of paper we needed for our dossier sitting in the mail box!!!!! Today my mom and I drove downtown to the Secretary of state office and had every thing state certified. I only had one problem....Wes was born in Wyoming and his birth certificate needed to be state certified there...duh! I overnighted it to Wyoming and should have it back by the end of the week and then our dosser will be in its way to Washington DC. I was a bit frustrated but we had a nice lunch and did some shopping. Ahh... food and shopping total stress relief! This is too easy.

Garage Sale

Over the weekend We had a yard sale to raise some money for the ever growing cost of this adoption. It was hard work but so much fun. I had lots of help from friends and family to help pull it together. My good friends daughter made a big sign that said that all proceeds would go to an international adoption. The shoppers all commented and wished us luck. Thanks to all who participated in this day!!!

Our Dossier

We have gathered every piece of paper work for our new dossier except one paper. We are waiting for our I171H to come in the mail. Once we receive that we have to get every paper notarized. Then we will take the day off work and head down town to the Secretary's of State office and get our dossier state certified. Once that is completed (its a whole day process) it will be in the mail to our agency and then on to Washington DC for one more stamp of approval. From there our dossier will go to Ethiopia!!! We hope all of this will be completed in the next month. Our agency is telling us that from the time our dossier hit Ethiopia to the time we travel is approximately 5-8 months. Of course after the last few experiences that we have had we have a hard time believing that. Lets pray its true! We are requesting a boy or girl age 0-15 months at the time of referral.

Why Ethiopia?

I can't explain how we decided on Ethiopia because in the past neither of us ever considered to do an adoption from there. It was just not in our hearts. Then one morning I woke up and Ethiopia was the first thought that entered my head. From that moment on it never left. Next was to convince Wes and how on earth was I going to do that. Well, as you can see that did not much if any convincing. We have looked into so many countries Russia, India, Kazakhstan but it was Ethiopia that was placed in our hearts.

Nepal announced on Monday that their Prime Minister has stepped down. This has caused even more problems with the adoption process in Nepal. It is expected that adoptions will not start moving for at least a few more months if not longer. Once we heard this, we were certain we made the right choice.

The Beginning

Our journey in adoption began over two years ago. Our first destination was Vietnam. After four months completing the paperwork and eight months of waiting for a referral their doors to adoption were closed. We were very frustrated and upset and we quickly decided to move on to another country.


Our next destination was Nepal. We accepted the referral of a twelve month old baby girl instantly. However we were told the wait could be very long before we could bring her home because at the time Nepal was closed to new adoptions. They were predicitng that they would open any month. Never the less we instantly fell in love. We named our little one Paige Srijana and we waited as patiently as possible. Stress and anxiety became a part of our daily lives as we waited to the green light to send our official paper work to start the process to bring her home. When they finally reopened in January of 2009 all of the laws and regulations had changed and it became imposable for us to adopt her. We were devastated at the loss of our little girl but we have realized that we must move on. This truly has been the longest stork ride ever!! We have researched every option through our agency and we have chosen yet another country. So here we go again!!

Our next destination.................... ETHIOPIA!