Our tentative travel dates are Feb. 18-25. That's less than a month away...Oh my goodness! I can't wait! What an exciting day!
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This is the adoption story of our son from Ethiopia.
Paul Ashenafi
This is the adoption story of our son from Ethiopia.
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Adoption Timeline
- February 27, 2008 - Return home
- February 21, 2008 - Embassy Appointment
- February 18, 2008 - Depart for Ethiopia
- January 23, 2008 - Court Date
- December 25, 2007 - Received New Referral for Baby A
- November 23, 2007 - Heard court ruling that Baby Z would not be our son
- November 20, 2007 - Court Date
- October 3, 2007 - Received Referral
- June 2007 - Sent Dossier to CHI/D.C./Ethiopia
- May 2007 - Gathered Dossier
- April 9 - Received I-171H
- March 2007 - Submitted Homestudy/Switched to Ethiopia Program with CHI
- Fall 2006 - Finished Homestudy/Waiting on Country
- July 2006 - Began Illinois Homestudy
- Spring 2006 - Decided to begin journey of international adoption
Books We're Reading
- Fire on the Mountain: Folklore of Ethiopia
- There's No Me Without You
- I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla
- 20 Things Adopted Children Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
29 comments:
WAHOO WAHOO WAHOO!!! Can you hear me screaming from Arizona?!
I am so happy for you guys!!!
YIPPEE!!! :D sooooooooooo very happy for you! congrats! we're both having baby boys!
Congratulations to the Mager family! It is so wonderful. I can't wait to meet him and give him his welcome home present.
Dee, I had no idea you had this blog. It's beautiful.
I love you all -
Heather
What an awesome surprise to check your blog and see your boy!!! YEAH YEAH!!! So happy for you...finally:) Congratulations. Now you can plan!
CONGRATULATIONS!! I have checked your blog at least 50 times today :) We are crossing our fingers for Feb 5th (our second court date). I am so happy for your family!
Congratulations!!!!! I am so happy for your family. What a great day and what a precious little boy. He is absolutely adorable. Happy packing :)
Amy
We should actually cross paths by one day in Addis. We leave Addis the night of the 19th. Where are you staying? We are staying at the Hilton. Let me know...
Amy
YAHOO!!!!!!
What a beautiful little boy
Stacie F
I was so excited seeing this on the CHI email!!! Oh my, you will be traveling VERY soon!!!!
HOORAY MAGER FAMILY!! Welcome beautiful boy!
Mamush & Family
Your son is gorgeous!! Congrats!!!!! Thanks be to the good Lord :)
YAY!!!! Congratulations!!! He is a very gorgeous young man!!
OH, I forgot to tell you how CUTE he is!!!
Congratulations!
What exciting news!
I pray that the favor of the Lord will be upon your family and that His angels will be round about ya'll as a hedge of protection as you travel to meet your new baby boy!
~Bobbi
congratulations!!! congratulations! I'm so very, very happy for you! :) :)
Yeah! He is so handsome! Glad it went through for you!
Congratulations! So exciting - he's so adorable!
Yay!!!!! Congratulations! It's so good to see a picture here. :) He's beautiful!
Jennifer N.
Congratulations!!!! I am so happy for your family.
Blessings,
Julie
congratulations!!!!!! he is beautiful!!
Congratulations! That is so awesome. What a gift from God! He is beautiful!
Elise
Congrats to you all how relieving and emotional this must feel! We recieved our referral 1 day after you guys and our agency doesn't release court date info.....just travel info as soon as we get our embassy date! AHHHH I wish I knew the day our son was legally ours. However you have given me hope that maybe he is in court this week!
CHEERS! (sorry we set our blog to private due to the scare! however we are coming back "live" haha after we recieve our good news!)
Take care!
YAY!!!! I'm so excited for you guys! He is so adorable - I can't wait to meet him someday!
Travel is coming up SOON!! Yippee!
CONGRATS!! He is beautiful:-)
He is so beautiful!!! Congradulations!!!
Congratulations! What great news!
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Thanks for the amazing comment - I just popped in and looky there - could he be more amazing and beautiful? I think not!
Oh my gosh. Ash was a doll baby. Of course he was. :)
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