Significant Dates

3/21/08: Met with Adoption Agency and met our home study service provider. Began the "paper chase"

3/26/08: Ordered Passports; First Home Study Visit

4/1/08: Blood Work
4/2/08: Medical Appointments

4/12/08: Passports arrived (wow!)

4/21/08: Finished International Adoption Classes (a new Hague requirement)

4/24/08: In the process of scheduling the next home study visit.

The First Blog!

I decided to start this blog because the adoption process is so long, confusing, and exciting! It's hard to communicate all that we are going through and have done. I will say that I believe it will be at least three years until we have our baby, but we are putting our faith in God, and He will direct our path.

So how did we end up here? Well, long story short, we are most likely not able to have any more children biologically without medical intervention. We found that out at the end of February 2008, so we had some serious thinking to do. Would Kacie be our only child? Would we try in-vitro? Would we adopt, and if so, domestically (US) or internationally, and if internationally, from where?

I believe that God put China on my heart back in 1994. In college I was in an Anthro of the Non-Western World Class, and China was one of our topics. It was there I learned so much, and I have always dreamed of adopting a girl from China. So now, 14 years later, we have begun to make our dream a reality. Feel free to check back on the blog to see how the process is going. I hope you will join us on our journey to China to bring home our daughter, and pray for us as we go through the hoops and emotions of this ride known as adoption.