Bringing Home Noelle!: Bringing Home Levi

This is an awesome video made by an AWAA family. It documents their experience in Ethiopia. They just got home with their precious son the end of January.

Our adoption timeline

5/06/2006 Attend Spirit of Adoption Seminar

5/15/2006 Fill out online application with AWAA

5/25/2006 We have been accepted into the China program

6/11/2006 Made first payment, signed agreements with awaa

6/14/2006 Physicals

6/23/2006 Recieved Dossier packet! We are paper pregnant!

6/26/2006 Mailed our I600A to USCIS

6/27/2006 First home study {2 more next week!}

7/10/2006 Had our last home study visit

7/20/2006 Applied for our passports

7/31/2006 Got our passports back!

8/17/2006 Picked up home study express mail to USCIS

8/24/2006 Letter from USCIS fingerprint appt. Sept 7!

9/07/2006 Had fingerprints done at Homeland Security!

9/21/2006 Recieved letter from Homland Security...not I171H like we expected, but a letter stating that we need a new home study because CHCS does not have a license????

10/19/2006 Good news....CHCS HAS A LICENSE!!!

10/20/2006 Hand delivered home study with copy of CHCS license and USCIS handed me our I171H!! Thank you Jesus!!

10/21/2006 Mailed all our documents to Legal-Eaze in NY

10/23/2006 Documents at Chinese Embassy -Authentication!
Mailed Dossier to AWAA overnight!

10/24/2006 AWAA has our dossier at there office and everything looks great!

10/27/2006 DTC {Dossier to China}

10/30/2006 Dossier arrives at CCAA our 13th Anniversary!

11/17/2006 Applied for Special Needs Program

11/22/2006 LID {Log in Date}

10/08/2007 Referral!!!!!

10/11/2007 LOI {Letter of Intent}

10/30/2007 PA {Pre-Approval}

11/28/2007 RA {Referral Approval}

12/27/2007 TA {Travel Approval} We're going to China!!!!!

1/17/2008 Leave Bangor Maine!

1/21/2008 GOTCHA DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1/30/2008 HOME AT LAST WITH OUR BABY GIRL!!!!!!

Bringing Home Noelle!

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Bringing Home Levi

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