Christmas (Weeks 1&2)

Brent with his i touch
Brent and Miley napping at Nana and Pa's
Playing Monopoly
Miley posing with our tree
We spent our first two weeks on the waitlist preparing for Christmas and having fun in Oklahoma! These pics. are just a few of the things we did the week we were there.

Waitlist!

This morning I received this email from Mary at Gladney:
Kate Sproat has notified me that she will be sending your complete dossier by FedEx today to Washington, D.C. for final authentications. This means that you are officially placed on waitlist to receive a referral! Currently, on average families have waited up to four to six months (which includes the full sixth month) to receive a referral. Please keep in mind that this timeline is an estimate and is subject to change at any time. Congratulations on making it through the tedious dossier process!
WOOHOO! Praying for our little one. It's crazy to think he or she is probably alive somewhere on the other side of the world.

I-171H

Well, our prayers were answered and we received our I-171H on Wednesday;six months to the day of when we began the adoption process. We got it notarized and I Fed-Exed it to Kate last night. It will be carried by courier service to the Texas Secretary of State next week and then our dossier will be complete!
I must say again that if you are using Gladney or another agency that uses KBS Dossiers it is VERY WELL worth the money. I can't imagine how long it would have taken if we had decided to do the dossier all by ourselves. With KBS it's pretty much just a matter of signing documents and getting them notarized.
Hopefully, next week we'll be getting an email that our dossier is on it's way to DC for it's final authentication and then we'll be on the waitlist!