The Ethiopian Courts are closing....

We received the news on Friday, which we were expecting. The Ethiopian courts are closing for the months of August and most of September due to the rainy season. The good news is there are already court dates set for the end of September, so they have a date scheduled to re-open, this isn't always the case. Referrals will slow down at this time. We are still praying that we will be able to bring our daughter home by Christmas. Keep praying!

Adoption Timeline

Timeline August 2009 -January 2011 = just under 17 months
August 24, 2009 - Our application was approved by AGCI!
September and October - We are finishing our homestudy and all of the other paper for our dossier.
November - #46
We sent in all of our USCIS info!
December - #43

2010
January 2010- #36
February- #32
March - #27
April- #22
We were finally fingerprinted!
May- #14
June - #12
We finally recieved our USCIS approval!
July -#9

August #3

August 19th - Unoffically #1

September 2nd - OFFICIALLY #1 !!!!!!

September 18th - REFERRAL!!!!!

October 11th - We have a COURT DATE!!!

November 8th - Baby's court date was passed!!! (We were NOT be present for this.)

December 4th - On a plane to Ethiopia!

December 6th - We met Baby E for the 1st time!

December 8th - We passed our COURT! E is "legally" OURS!!!!!

December 9th - We had to tell our baby goodbye.

2011

January 4th - AGCI called our case has been cleared. Now waiting for a confirmed embassy date.

January 5th - We HAVE an embassy date for MONDAY

January 6th - We are on a plane.

January 7th - We are still on a plane.

January 8th - We have our daughter in our arms!!!!!

January 10th - Embassy date

January 12th/13th - All 3 of us are on a plane and heading home!!!!

January 13th, 2011- We are all home for the first time as a family of 4.

We are officially #9.....unofficially NUMBER 6!!! We are so close! :D

I don't know what happened, but our 1st blog has been deleted. I am trying to get to the bottom of this. Hopefully all will be figured out by next week.