2/2/07		Applied to our adoption agency, AWAA, for the El Salvador program
2/14/07		AWAA called and approved us to start our next adoption process
2/20/07		Received Client Agreement from AWAA and mailed back on 2/21/07
2/24/07		Autumn's 12 month post placement - will eventually count for 1st Homestudy Visit
2/25/07		Had lunch with our social worker and her family since they stayed in town with friends
3/6/07		Christi was assigned as our Family Coordinator. Our Homestudy & Dossier packets arrived today
3/7/07		Mailed our background checks off to be completed (takes about 6wks)
3/9/07		Dr. Appt - blood work was completed and now are waiting on forms
3/10/07		Garage Sale and raised $280 towards the Lily Fund
3/13/07		Mailed all HS docs to AWAA, minus the medical forms that we are still waiting on
3/17/07		Homestudy visit at our home - We officially requested a female up to age three (36 months) and were approved to bring a child in the US up to age 3 1/2 (42 months). At the time of referral, if the referral of our child is actually older than this, we will then have an addendum to our homestudy approving us for an older child.
4/2/07		Our HS is almost complete. We are still waiting on medicals. Our blood work was lost and today they found it. We are still waiting on the forms to actually be filled out and also for our DCF clearances. It will be about another two to three weeks before the first part of our paperwork is complete (the Homestudy). Then we work towards finishing the second part of our paperwork (the Dossier).
4/11/07		Fist appointment with the Psychologist for our evaluation.  The Dr's office estimated this process for testing and report will take 2 weeks, maybe 3 weeks.
5/10/07		Our homestudy is complete and arrived in the mail on 5/16/07
5/17/07		Sent in I600A & Homestudy to USCIS (Immigrations), found out had wrong address, sent to fingerprint office
5/25/07		The I600A application office still does not have our I600A application.
June 07		In the month of June, our family had an awakening call. We left the El Salvador program. On May 28th we began pursuing a domestic adoption and by the end of June, that adoption fell through and we lost that precious child. We were heart broken but encouraged that the Lord used it for a purpose. With our world a bit rocked, we sat back and prayed heavily about where the Lord was sending us, and were we being obedient or were we running scared. Did we trust HIM enough to provide? We are a family of meager means and we are frugal so we limited our adoption options based on what we knew we could budget for and we allowed no room for the Lord to provide otherwise. After months (since March) of praying about this, we finally let it all just rest in the palm of His hands and by July he delivered us a baby girl.
6/28/07		Decided to switch countries to Guatemala
6/29/07		Chose new agency, made contact, received 'verbal' okay to adopt a baby girl, were invited to their office
6/30/07		REFERRAL DAY!!! Met with agency in person, received referral of 2 month old baby girl, Alejandra Carolina, (our Lily) born April 21st
7/5/07		Resubmitted I600A to USCIS (for Guatemala) (1st application for El Salvador was lost in May)
7/14/07		Fingerprinted by USCIS
7/24/07		new homestudy specific to Guatemala arrived at USCIS for processing I171H approval
7/27/07		I171H from USCIS received!!!!
7/30/07		Sent out email to friends and family announcing the formal referral of our Lily
7/31/07		sent copy of I171H to agency, forward to attorney in Guatemala to start DNA request process
8/2/07		all the dossier documents had been gathered and after a few revisions received final okay today from agency, mailed to Sec of State & Guatemalan Consulates for Certification and Authentication
8/3/07		finally just waiting - Feels Good! - Ahh, a sigh of relief and time to breathe - time to get the house organized and wait for DNA results so we can plan a trip to visit our baby girl!!!!
8/13/07		All but Dale's birth certificate is now at the adoption agency, just waiting on the 1 final document and our  dossier will be complete
8/17/07		Accepted AARON'S REFERRAL!!!! WE HAVE A SON AS WELL!!!
		Lily's adoption will go on hold so we do not have to process 2 dossiers.  Once we send Aaron's Power of Attorney to GUA then both adoptions weill begin the in country (GUA) process.
9/5/07		Aaron's Power of Attorney mailed to GUA(arrived 9/6). Dale's birth cert is already there. All documents are in GUA now. Let the games begin!
9/7/07		The charge from Labcorp for Lily's DNA testing hit our account today.
10/3/07		Amazing Day! Lily's DNA results arrived. (taken on 9/20 and mailed out on 9/27).
10/3/07		What was supposed to be a 60+ day wait (after DNA) for Pre Approval was not 60 days at all. Pre Approval arrived today!!!!
10/3/07		WOW, also found out that Lily's birth family is El Salvadoran! We do have an El Salvador baby after all!!!
10/8/07		Birth Mother interviews were conducted today by a Social Worker for approval by the Family Court judge.
10/30/07		Entered PGN, the final Phase of the adoption! (11/7 kick out, 11/12 resubmit)
11/19/07		WOW!!! PRAISING THE LORD TODAY FOR HIS MIRACLES.  WE ARE OUT!!!!!!!!!!!! OUT OF PGN THAT IS!!!!! WOW!!!!
12/3/07		2nd DNA Charge
12/10/07		DNA sample received at Labcorp in North Carolina for testing
12/12/07		Labcorp sends results to the U.S Embassy in Guatemala
12/13/07		2nd DNA results received at U.S Embassy in Guatemala
12/18/07		PINK - emailed slip informing us of our Embassy Appt Date WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!! WE HAVE OUR APPOINTMENT. IT'S JAN 7TH
1/6/08		Fly to Guatemala where Lily will be placed in our arms FOREVER
1/7/08		Appointment at U.S. Embassy
1/8/07		Lily's Visa is ready at 3:30PM
1/9/07		HOME SWEET HOME!!!!