WE GOT IT!!!

We got the approval ( I600A ) to adopt a little girl from Russia. We are still in Massachussettes visiting family, but we can't wait to get home and complete our dossier so that we can officially be on the waiting list WOOHOO!!!

We made it to Mass

The boys and I left for Cape Cod on Sunday, at 3:00 a.m. and we made it to my sisters house by Tuesday afternoon. The kids were AWESOME during the long drive. I drove 12 hours on the first 2 days and 7 on the last day. We made a stop at Hershey Park to do the tour ride and buy some chocolate. After being in the car all day, Alex ( 2 year old ) ran around like a crazy man lol. He was trying to grab everything that he saw and he was following the chocolate bar characters around saying " hi chocolate ". Ron and I may take the boys there again on our way back to Texas. We may also go to New York City because Nicholas ( 5 year old ) was only a baby the last time we went to New York. He would get a huge kick out of the Empire State Building. We still haven't heard from immigrations yet ( sigh ) . I was hoping that we would hear something soon, but no such luck.

LOOK AT WHAT I FOUND IN MY EMAIL TODAY!!!!!

Hello Frank Family,

It is with great pleasure and excitement to inform you that Frank Adoption Center, NC has been reaccredited by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation as of June 27, 2007. Frank is one of seven American agencies to be reaccredited! We are formally notifying all of our families today of this wonderful news and you will find this information on our website by the week's end. We are also including a copy of the ORDER, both the English translated version and the Russian version for you to see.

Thank you so much for your continued support and patience during the past 13 months!

Warm regards,

We got our appointment!

We got our fingerprint appointment for this Friday. My sister and her kids are visiting from Mass. so we decided to make a day out of it and go to the San Antonio zoo. I leave for Mass. in about a week and a half, so it doesn't look like our dossier will be complete until mid to late August. SOOO frustrating ! I'm not even on the waiting list until the adoption agency receives our dossier. I will post pictures this weekend.

I know!

I have been incredibly bad about updating my blog, but I WILL do better. Our homestudy went very well and we recieved a copy of it within a week after our visit. I overnighted it ( is that a word?) to immigrations and now we are patiently waiting for our fingerprint appointment. We NEED to have this done before our dossier is complete and i'm leaving in 3 weeks to go back home ( Cape Cod ) for a month. I really dont think that the dossier will be complete until mid August and it's frustrating because we wont technically be on the waiting list with our adoption agency until this is finished. Yesterday was Alex's 2nd birthday and we celebrated it by going out to Mcdonalds ( his choice ) and eating yummy cupcakes. My sister and kids are coming to visit us on Saturday ( jumping up and down ). I haven't seen them since last August and i'm beyond excited right now.

Preparing for homestudy!

Here is Nicholas helping with the cleaning on Friday ( forgot to post it ).

Homestudy done!

THANK GOD our homestudy is done without any major catastropies ( except the bloody nose that Sean gave Nick when he threw a ball to him ) . Another huge hurdle out of the way!!!!! It was a lot different than what I thought it would be like. I thought that we would talk more about our family life, values, and all that good stuff, but our SW was very business like and just asked a lot of questions about our parents and the kind of upbringing we had. She interviewed my husband and I together, and then alone. She also interviewed each of the boys alone. God, how I wished that I was a fly on the wall when she interviewed Nicholas ( 4 year old ). This is the kid that when asked what his moms favorite drink was ( Mother's day questionnaire at school ) proudly announced that my favorite drink was beer. WHAT????? I dont even remember the last time I drank beer lol. I drink wine a couple of nights a week, but I haven't had a beer in ages. Anyways, my homestudy should be complete sometime next week. The social worker is just waiting on one more reference letter ( thanks Aggie ) and then the daunting task of preparing the dossier.