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The essence of cuteness
Alex 5 Erika 3 Sebastian 4 Luisa 2
at a shower for us at Damon and Tamara's house.
The essence of cuteness
Alex 5 Erika 3 Sebastian 4 Luisa 2
...and the two shall become...........six!
The most amazing phone call that we ever received came on September 11, 2007. Our social worker in Overland Park, KS had a conference call with Rena in Salina, KS and myself, Nate, in Kansas City, MO, about four siblings in Bogota, Colombia, South America. We got a referral that ended our deferred hope.
It had to be a God-thing; I think it happened inside of five seconds. We looked at their picture and they went from being strangers to being the most beautiful children in the world! They immediately stole our hearts! We were hooked for life. We were theirs and they were ours. What seemed like countless hours of preparation and years of prayer became flesh and fabric.
From Start to Gotcha Day!
- October 16,2007 - We met our children!!!
- October 13, 2007 - Flew to Bogota', Colombia
- September 13, 2007 - Submitted our letter of acceptance
- September 11, 2007 - "WE GOT THE CALL!!!"
- July and August - waiting on the call for the "official" referral
- June 15, 2006 - Dossier sent to ICBF (Colombia's Child Welfare Bureau)
- May 29, 2007 - Dossier sent to Colombia for translation
- May 28, 2007 - Dossier sent in to agency for approval
- May 23, 2007 - Paperwork apostilled in Topeka, Kansas
- May 21, 2007 - Received I171H (International Adoption Approval through INS)
- May 11, 2007 - Received "unofficial" referral of 4 children, ages 5,3,2,1, from the Bogota Region
- April 16, 2007 - INS Fingerprints and I600A Application sent off.
- April 12, 2007 - Home Study and Home Visits Finished
- February 20, 2007 - Application Approved and had our first meeting with our social worker
- December 17, 2006 - First informational meeting with CHI
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at a shower for us at Damon and Tamara's house.
Pigeons at the square
6 comments:
How beautiful! I had chills from the beginning and was in tears before the song had barely begun.
wonderful wonderful wonderful!
God bless you all.
jenn
I just HAD to link this on my blog... hope you don't mind.
Rena and Nate,
What a loving tribute to the special love and wonderful blessings brought to your family through God's gifting of adoption. I was moved by the beautiful lyrics, and my kids were listening in and commented on how much they wished their parents could sing that well.
I'm assuming this was a clear indicator that their dedication ceremony went wonderful. Thanks for sharing the video. It brought many smiles to my day!
Sending blessings,
Genece
Wow, that is really special! Karl and I enjoyed your video very much.
There weren't enough kleenexes in the house after watching this. How beautiful!
Traci
I can't believe I have never commented on this post before. Me and D were looking at your blog and played the video. Beautiful! We are requesting another music video and updated blog pics!!! Please, please!
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