Monday, January 3, 2011

Happy 2011!

Happy New Year! Hope you all had a great time during the holidays. We've wrapped up 2010 with amazing travels, visits with family and good friends, our first mission trip, new friends, and progress with our adoption.

In December we completed our CIS/I-600a fingerprints (federal fingerprinting). That was a whopping $830 expense and almost missed Don's appointment, but thanks to an early flight home, he made it! Many have been asking where we are in the adoption process. We are still getting our dossier paperwork together. There is one adoption class to finish, several AZ docs that need notarization, all AZ docs also need authentication by the Secretary of State, Visa photos to be taken, and awaiting the 171H form from our fingerprinting. Once we have all that done, we can send our $4100 and dossier off to the agency for double-checking, translation to Ethiopian and then it can be sent to Ethiopia for processing! The dossier is much more than paperwork and very time consuming. We call it our "paper pregnancy". haha.

So, we look forward to 2011 with hopes of a referral later this year! We have raised over $7,000 to date (both our funds and donations from others). Thank you EVERYONE who have made this possible...both for our family and for an orphan.

We are still fundraising through our Just Love Coffee fundraiser, our Adoption Bug T-Shirt fundraiser, and if you don't need coffee or t-shirts, but want to help, you may donate using the DONATE button to the right of our blog or on our Adoption Website: Three and Counting-Sullivans Ethiopian Adoption.

Thank you everyone and here's to the possibilities in 2011!!!
-The Sullivans
Almost halfway to our goal!!!

1 comment:

Monica said...

A teacher at my school just adopted a 5 year old girl from the Ukraine. She arrived in Tucson last night! So, exciting!