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Our Family

Our family began the day we were married June 21, 1997! Since then it has grown a little here, and a little there. We now have five beautiful children. Mason who is 11, Cassidy who is 8, Preston who is 6, Birtukan who is 6, and Tseganesh who is 3. Three of our children grew in my belly, and two grew many miles away in my heart. God chose for us two precious girls in Ethiopia, who were to be our children. They arrived in our family on the joyous day of Aug. 22, 2010. This blog will be a way for us to share our experiences as a new family of 7! I hope you enjoy reading it, as much as we are enjoying living it!

Friday, March 26, 2010

We are approved ( again:))!!!!!

I am SO far behind in posting, BUT we have great news!!! We received our I-171 approval in the mail March 18th!! We had a pretty big bump in the process with our homestudy, but got it all worked out and was approved! So our next step is to finish our Hague online training course, put together our family photo pages, and get everything certified at the state level. Then our Dossier will be finished, and mailed off to America World for them to review and approve! We are getting REALLY close which is exciting, and nerve racking all at the same time. Exciting because we will hopefully be able to meet our daughter really soon, and nerve racking because now I REALLY need to focus on some fundraising efforts to raise some money so we CAN get her home! I will keep everyone up to date on what we have going on as far as fundraising goes!
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  1. DebbMarch 29, 2010 at 8:58 PM

    CONGRATS ON GETTING APPROVAL!!!! How exciting! What a BIG step closer to your daughter! WOO HOO!!! Celebrating with you! And praying for you too!@ :o)

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