In Person Home Study - "Here comes Sara"

It's February 28, 2007. Today is the day! The day that we have really been anticipating and I actually think that we are a little nervous. Sara, our Social Worker, has schedule to come out to our home to interview us and Hannah. Hopefully Hannah isn't too shy. We really didn't know what to expect. The whole process took about an hour and it really wasn't as bad as we thought. Luckily we had talked to a couple of friends that had just recently went through the process and they kind of prepared us. The end result - We passed with flying colors!!! Praise the Lord!!! Now we are waiting on the actual documentation from CHI to go get fingerprinted by Citizen and Immigration Services.

Application Approved! - "Here we go!!!"

On January 23, 2007 we received a letter stating that our application has been approved. Now comes the hard part.....telling everything - and I mean EVERYTHING - about ourselves so we can work toward our Homestudy. Man, we can't believe that there is so much stuff that they need! Pictures of every room of our house, Police Records, Birth Records, Health Records and even at least a 5 page Autobiography. How in the world are we going to we limit it to ONLY 5 pages??????? And 7 reference letters???? Luckily we know 5 people that will write something nice. Maybe we can get the other 2 to lie - haha! In all seriousness, we have alot of work to do to pull this stuff together. CHI has been great through the whole process and have really held our hands the whole way. We have been keeping in our minds that if we feel like we are getting overwhelmed, that God has granted us the opportunity to adopt a precious little baby boy! We are so blessed.

The Beginning of Our Journey

On December 26, 2006 we turned in our application to adopt an infant boy from Vietnam. We talked about adopting for a year prior to filling out our application. We are excited to be expanding our Family. Hannah is thrilled that she will be a big sister. This has been a great Christmas and we feel very blessed. I have attached a picture of Hannah that was taken at Christmas.