Travelin' Texans: The Big Slide

Monday, August 14, 2006

The Big Slide

This is from about a week and a half ago. Olivia decided to tackle the big slide. Sachie (our Japanese exchange student) was at the bottom ready to catch her since she can't swim yet. She only did it a few times and then got scared.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: What a big girl.; 11:47 AM
nowwhatelmo said...: Awesome. That slide looks like lots of fun!; 10:03 AM

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Adoption Timeline

May 2008 Decide to pursue an international adoption from Kazakhstan
June 2008 Apply to homestudy agency in California
October 2008 Work on homestudy and apply to International Placement agency
November 2008 Finish completing homestudy
December 24, 2008 Notarize our remaining documents for our dossier
January 2, 2008 Hand carry our dossier to Sacramento for Apostilles (authenticating)
January 2009 Submit our dossier to our agency for review and translation
February 2009 Dossier is submitted to consulate
March 2009 Dossier resubmitted to consulate
April 6, 2009 Dossier cleared consulate!
April 15, 2009 Dossier to Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kazakhstan
May 2009 Dossier to Ministry of Education in Almaty!
May 23, 2009 Receive LOI (Letter Of Invitation)
June 15, 2009 Travel to Kazakhstan to meet and bond with our child
July 25, 2009 Trip #2 for court
July 30, 2009 Court
September 6, 2009 Trip #3 for custody
September 12, 2009 Arrive in USA with our son!