Gifts from the God of Life!: June 2007

June 19th, Picked up Home Study from CHI, finally finished!
June 1st - Home Visit

Timeline

July 5 - Reunited with Boys... adoption journey COMPLETE! Family COMPLETE!
July 5 - LEAVE RUSSIA FOR HOME!
July 4 - Meet Vitaly, Julia and Marina at Coffee Mania
July 4 - Registration with Russian Consulate
July 3 - Embassy Interview, Immigration, Visa
July 2 - Leave the Baby Home, fly to Moscow
July 1 - Get Passport
June 30 - Get Adoption and Birth Certificate
June 30 - Court (aka Miracle Day!)
June 27 - See Meg again
June 26 - Arrive in Russia
June 25 - Leave for Russia
June 24 - Receive Visas
June 20 - FedEx another check to the Russian Consulate
June 18 - FedEx first set of Visa Applications
June 12 - Tickets booked
June 11, 2008 8:22 AM - THE CALL from CSS saying our court date has been scheduled for June 30
June 5 - e-mail from CSS confirming receipt and that they were mailing on Friday
June 4 - apostille and UPS Clearances to CSS
June 3 - P/U Police Clearance Letter
May 21 - Give Paperwork to TMH for delivery to Russia
May 20 - Apostille Paperwork for Judge
May 14 - start paperwork for judge for court
May 10 - 5 AM leave hotel for flight, home 21 hours later at 6 PM
May 9 - we say farewell for a little while
May 6 - Committee
May 5 - WE MEET THE M and M
May 4 - land in St. Petersburg at 5:10 PM
May 3- Board Delta flight to Russia
April 23 - Spoke with Russian Consulate, they received the new money order and we can expect the visa documentation on Friday. YEAH!
April 21 - UPS SECOND money order to Russian Consulate
April 17 - FedEx Visa Application
Confirmed Reservation at Hotel Oktyabrskaya
April 16 - Complete Visa applications and submit rental requests to several apartments and one hotel
April 15 - Change in Post Placement wording, apostille and FedEx document to CSS for hand delivery to Russia
April 14 - Flights booked!
April 14 - REGISTERED AND Given Travel Dates!!!!!!!!
April 1 - Dr. Heil gives us the go-ahead on the referral
March 31 - REFERRAL!!!!!
March 24 - We are not registered, but another family is... this is progress!
March 11 - Special registration day, but we aren't registered because DHL sent our POA to Hong Kong
March 10 - Russian Holiday, no registration
March (1 or 2) - Apostille and FedEx POA to CSS to be sent to a traveling family
February 28 - St. Pete requests a different POA for a different representative
February 25 - Russian Holiday, no registration
February 11 - Miss registration because I am just now apostilling extra requested documents
February 6 - Request letter from State, letter from Catholic Charities, additional papers for St. Pete
January 29 - Dossier arrives in St. Petersburg, translated
January 2008 - Apostille all St. Petersburg Documents
January 9 - Dossier reviewed and two or three new documents requested
December 21 - Spoke with CSS, they received our dossier!
December 17 - FedEx'd dossier to CSS
December 17, 2007 - Apostilled about 40 documents
November 2007 - New Homestudy done by Catholic Charities (Julie Bolles ROCKS!)
October 2007 - Switched Agencies, signed with CSS
September 2007 - Received CIS approval
August 2007 - Call to check on CIS approval, am told that CHI did not send my homestudy until late June
June 19th - Picked up Homestudy from CHI
February 5, 2007 - Brian Says YES!!! We're moving forward, officially!
January 2007 - Signed Agency Agreement, paid $300 to make us "official"
December 16, 2006 - Submitted Application to CHI

Gifts from the God of Life!

Look how long it's been since our little princess got her forever family:

Monday, June 18, 2007

I see you looking!

Where in the world are you?

Look what God can do!

Meg around July 2007

Referral Photo

Gotta love this referral photo... do they want these kids adopted or not?

One Week Home

One Month Home

Other Families on the Journey

Living the dream! (a nod to my YOUNGER brother-in-law! :)

This is us...

Followers

It doesn't matter, it's in the past...

Timeline