Friday, May 4, 2012

T-shirt fundraiser

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Hello, We are doing a tshirt fundrasier to help support our adoption and to raise adoption awareness. If you are interested, follow this li...

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We are making progress. Our home study update has been sent to the DRC. Our representative in DRC has been to court to request a birth cer...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Here we go again!!!

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Well, this blog has been neglected for a while now. We just wanted to announce that we have started the adoption process again. We are ado...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Today was the day :o)

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Well, today was the day it finally happened. Dru has been a little reserved with me as far as giving affection or spontaneous hugs or kisse...
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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Lots of firsts

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Dru throwing snowballs for Scout to catch Dru's first snow. Dru's first bike ride.

First ice cream

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When you come from a place where nothing is cold, ice cream can be shocking.

Working on my bike

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Dru wants to make sure his bike is in tip top condition.
Thursday, February 10, 2011

He is home!!!

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Hello all, We have been home with our son Dru for almost a week. Sorry I didn't post sooner, but it has been a little crazy around here...
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

So close

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Hello, We have had an emotional few days. On Thursday we got a call from our adoption agency. They wanted to let us know that we could pos...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Good news!!!

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Well, we now have a birth certificate for our little guy with Duane and I listed as parents. We also got his passport. There must be some ...
Sunday, January 2, 2011

Waiting some more

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Well, we got some news about our embassy appointment, and it wasn't good. The US Embassy in Ethiopia has slowed down the process of get...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Still waiting

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Hello all, We are still just waiting. We haven't heard anything new, just waiting. I was hoping that we would hear that we had a birth c...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

"He is yours"

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"He is yours," is what the judge said to us on Wednesday, December 8th, 2010. I guess it is official, we are a family of five. W...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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We leave in just a few days. I doesn't really seem real yet. By this time next week we will have met our new son. We will also get to...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Almost time

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We get to meet our new son two weeks from today!!!!!! We can't wait!
Saturday, November 20, 2010

A Prayer for Children

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This was posted on our adoption agency's blog. I love it, even though it makes me cry. A Prayer For Children We pray for children who p...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Update

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We got an update on Monday November 1st!!! We got 12 pictures of our little guy. He is smiling and playing in all of them. He is growing ...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

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A while back, while I was being impatient, I figured out that if I had gotten pregnant the day we filled out our premliminary application fo...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Our Court Trip

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Hello, We have all of the travel plans made for our court trip. It was significantly cheaper to leave a few days earlier, so we are going t...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Court Date

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Hello all, We have great news. We found out our court date. We will need to be in Ethiopia on December 8th to officially adopt our new lit...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Submitted to Court

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Yay!! Good news today. All of the necessary documents have been gathered in Ethiopia and submitted to court. That means that we should he...
Monday, September 20, 2010

One Month

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Well, It has been one month today since we received our referral for our new little guy. It is hard to wait while he is getting older witho...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Waiting for our Court Date

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Hello Everyone, It sounds like it takes 4 or 5 weeks to find out when our court date will be scheduled, so it is back to waiting again. The...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Vitamins

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Duane and I will travel to Africa sometime in the next 3 months for our court date and to meet our little guy in person. Then we will go ba...
Monday, August 23, 2010

Exciting news

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Sorry I didn't post sooner, but I have been busy working on adoption paperwork because on Friday, August 20th, we got a referral!!!!! It...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

Training

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Hello All, Duane and I attended mandatory adoption training today in Douglas. The training was really good. They wanted to make sure every...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Ty and Ali

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Sunday, August 1, 2010

DTE

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Hello All, Friday was a big day. It is our official DTE, or dossier to Ethiopia day. This means that we are finally done with paperwork an...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Love is weird

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I think it is crazy how much you can love someone you have never met. Someone you know nothing about, not even their age age or gender. Lo...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Due Date

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Ok, I know that I am a dork. I am wondering what the adoption time frame will be in comparison to a normal pregnancy. If I would have gott...

All paperwork in!!!

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All of our paperwork made it to the national office in Grand Rapids, and was forwarded to Washington DC early this week. As soon as the pap...
Monday, July 12, 2010

1 paper left

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Hello All, Well, I found out today that we are down to waiting for one more paper to come in with a state seal. Almost there:o) Hopefully ...
Friday, June 25, 2010

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Hello All, I just found out that I am kind of a bone head. I was sooooo excited to get all of my paperwork done and turned in. Well, I jus...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

What do I do now?

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Getting all of our paperwork turned in was soooo exciting, but what do I do now? When we were doing all of the paperwork, I was at least so...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Blessing

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I can't seem to keep myself from wondering why our paperwork process has gone so smoothly. So many people going through this process se...
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Friday, June 11, 2010

It's a good day!!!!

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Hello all, We got our approval from the USCIS Department of Homeland Security today. That means that the government has officially approved...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

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Hello All, We got some disappointing news today. There was a three year old girl in Ethiopia who was available for adoption. Our social wo...
Thursday, June 3, 2010

All fingerprinted.

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Duane and I went to Rapid City yesterday and got our fingerprints taken. It should only be two or three weeks now until we send our dossie...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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Well, we finished up all our our required travel shots last Thursday. Duane will need a couple of booster in October, but we have everythin...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Health Status

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Hi, I have had a few people ask about the health status of our future child. A legitimate question considering the horrible AIDS epidemic go...
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There is no me without you

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Hello again, Duane flew to Tulsa for work yesterday. He had plenty of time to catch up on his required adoption reading. I am reading a bo...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

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Hello All, Last week, on Thursday we all went to public health for another round of shots. I got 3, Ty got 3, Ali got 2 and Duane got 5. ...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Our Ethiopian Adoption

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Well, some of you may know, and some of you may not know that Duane and I are in the process of adopting from Africa. This is how we got to...
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