WELCOME!

Welcome to all of our family and friends who will be following our adoption journey. We began our journey in January 2005. Our completed dossier (FBI background checks, health exams, birth & marriage certificates, reference letters, home study, autobiographies, fingerprints, employer references, etc, etc. . . . ) was notorized by Nelson County, the state of Kentucky, and authenticated by The U.S. Secretary of State at Washington D.C. Our dossier was submitted to the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA) and logged in on December 13, 2005. Then we waited...

And waited...and waited...and waited.

Each month our adoption agency, Families thru International Adoption (FTIA), receives "Referrals" from the CCAA. A referral is a picture and brief medical history of a child specifically matched to the adoptive parents. After almost 24 months, we hope to receive our referral in early December 2007.

So . . . the wait continues.