It's a.......... Posted about over 6 years ago

2 weeks ago our paper work was sent to China and Monday to our great surprise, we got a phone call for an available little boy. We were shocked- thinking we wouldn't hear anything until late fall but we cannot contain our excitement! Our little guy is almost 14 months and super smiley.  We're working hard to get him home asap!We've moved down our fundraising goal even though we're still short o...

Dossier is on it's way Posted about almost 7 years ago

It's been awhile since we've updated. We first want to thank everyone for their generous support. We are even further along with some donations that came personally to us. Thank you! We are still around $6,000 needed. June and part of July was a whirl wind of papers and authenticating. We made several trips to the state's office and Chinese consulate. FINALLY, our dossier was sent to China this...

Update 4 Posted about about 7 years ago

Update 4   Well we have some good news! On March 21st (Dan’s 30th birthday) we found out that our home study was approved! So another big hurdle jumped. Following that we started the I-800 immigration form. The form is very intimidating…you have to have EVERY part correct, and if just one thing is wrong it will be rejected. Well we finished that and sent it in mail. Now we just ha...

Update 3 Posted about about 7 years ago

We just got word that are home study has been submitted and will be under review! This is a huge step forward in the process for us. The news was needed after last week...last week we found out that we hit a final hurdle before the home study could be submitted. We found out that China required a certain amount of money was needed in assets and at the time we didn't have that amount. Thankfully...

Update 2: Puzzle Pieces Posted about about 7 years ago

We wanted to share with you a fun thing that we are doing. If you know Taryn you know that she loves puzzles, so we thought it would be a great idea to buy a small puzzle (pictured above) and whenever someone donates money we will write your name on the back of a piece and slowly put the puzzle together.  We just thought it would be a great visual so one day our child will know how much love an...

Update 1 Posted about about 7 years ago

THANK YOU! We are so thankful for your willingness to help us with our adoption process. This page has only been up for 2 weeks and we are already more than halfway funded!  I wanted to share with you where we currently are in our adoption process. In October of last year we started the process by filling out paperwork for Madison Adoption agency to get the ball rolling, and we were ...