It's Here!

When I got home today and checked the mail, I found our CIS approval, the I-171 H! This means we are approved to bring two children into the U.S. from Ethiopia. We are so excited! Our friend, Jennifer, was very gracious and allowed us to come to her house with last minute notice to notarize our approval. After that we went to dinner with my parents and some friends to celebrate my dad's birthday - lot's to celebrate today! :) Finally, we went to Fed-Ex to send our approval to Kate at KBS Dossiers. Our approval will have to be authenticated by the Texas Secretary of State. Then our whole dossier will be ready to go to Washington D.C. for federal authentication. Hopefully we will be on the Gladney waitlist within the next couple weeks!

Fun Times!

This Saturday we had the monthly get together of DFW area families who are in the process of adopting or have adopted from Ethiopia. We met up at the Fournet's home for a wonderful evening of Ethiopian food, fellowship, and fun. We enjoyed catching up with friends we've met at past gatherings and getting to know new friends. It's great to have so many people in our area going through the same thing and it will be wonderful for our future children to have friends who were also adopted from Ethiopia. It was so fun to watch all the kids playing together and having such a good time. We can't wait to add our kids to the mix!

Ready and Waiting to Wait

We received word this week from Kate at KBS Dossiers that all of our dossier documents have returned to her authenticated. Everything is ready and waiting for our CIS approval. Once we receive approval from CIS (Immigration) and get it authenticated our dossier will be ready to go to DC for more authentication and then on to Ethiopia. That is when we will officially be placed on the Gladney wait list. So for now we are waiting on that one piece of paper so that we can officially wait!

We were fingerprinted for CIS exactly 6 weeks ago today so I think that approval could be coming any day now, but it could also potentially take several more weeks so I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high.