Adoption Timeline

2009
March 2 :: Applied for Adoption!
April 6 :: Chose Dillon for our Home Study Provider
May 25 :: Home Study Ordered
June 9 & 12 :: Home Study Interviews
July 7 :: USCIS Application Sent
June-August :: Dossier Preparation
August 5 :: Home Study Officially Approved!
September 14 :: Dossier sent to D.C. for authentication
September 16 :: USCIS (for Citizenship) approved
October 20 :: WAIT LIST! Dossier to Ethiopia!!!!
November 20 :: 1 month on wait list

December 20 :: 2 months on wait list

2010
January 20 :: 3 months on wait list
January 27 :: #3 on wait list!
February 20 :: 4 months on wait list
March 2 :: 1 year since we applied for our babies!
March 20 :: 5 months on wait list
April 20 :: 6 months on wait list
May 17 :: #1 on wait list!!!! 
May 20 :: 7 months on wait list
June 20 :: 8 months on wait list
July 20 :: 9 months on wait list 
August 16 :: REFERRAL!!! Healthy, gorgeous little ones: 6 month baby girl and 2 year old boy
September 9 :: 2nd medicals approved
September 28 :: Ethiopian Courts Re-open & our paperwork is on the judges' desk!

October 26 :: Court date assigned! 
November 4-13 :: 1st Ethiopia trip

November 10 :: Court date

November 11 :: Legally become Judah & Addise's parents!!!
December 28 :: US Embassy Date...canceled the day before we were supposed to leave [December 23]

2011

January 7 :: Leave for Embassy date on Ethiopia's Christmas. It WAS a Christmas miracle
January 10 :: Pick-up Judah and Addise FOREVER!
January 11 :: U.S. Embassy - passed!
January 15 :: Home Forever!!!