Adoption Timeline

June 2011 - Asked a few friends and family to pray with us about God's call for us to care for the orphan.

June 9, 2001 - God answered . . . we are called to adopt a son from Africa!

June 20, 2011 - Chose to work with All God's Children International, but we have to wait until Grayson is one year old in December.

July 13, 2011 - Started selling our amazing adoption t-shirt as our first fundraiser!

July 22 & 23, 2011 - 2 day yard sale fundraiser . . . $1700!

September 1, 2011 - First of many adoption raffles on the blog to raise funds!

September 2011 - Announced that our little boy's name will be Easton!

October 20, 2011 - Submitted our application with $300 fee to AGCI!  (They changed their policy and now you can begin when your youngest child is 6 months.)

October 20, 2011 - Our application was accepted!  We are officially adopting with AGCI!

October 24, 2011- First phone call with Ashley Davis from LBCH who will be doing our home study.

October 25, 2011 - Got fingerprinted and put our FBI background check application in the mail.

October 26, 2011 - Orientation phone call with AGCI.

October 27, 2011 - Mailed in contract to AGCI and paid $7390 in fees.  Praise God for providing!

November 7, 2011 - Dossier Planning phone call with Toni . . . overwhelmed doesn't begin to explain!


November 8, 2011 - Chad had his physical and TB test.  

November 14, 2011 - Cole had her physical and TB test.

November 18, 2011 -  We hit $15,000 in our adoption fund!  Praise God for providing!

December 5, 2011 - HOMESTUDY!  We had a great day with our social worker . . . love her!

January 7, 2012 - Got our FBI clearances in the mail after waiting 9 weeks!  Merry Ethiopian Christmas to us!

April 25, 2012 - Our homestudy is DONE and in my hands!  Happy Day!

April 26, 2012 - Mailed our USCIS application and our Show Hope grant application. 

June 6, 2012 - USCIS fingerprints are done and our dossier is in the mail to AGCI!  We're done!

July 2, 2012 - Mailed in our re-done criminal checks.  NOW we are done!

July 3, 2012 - Finally on the waitlist!!!  #124

July 2012 Waitlist Update #111


August 2012 Waitlist Update #105

September 2012 Waitlist Update #103

October 2012 Waitlist Update #102

November 2012 Waitlist Update #98

December 2012 Waitlist Update #95

January 2013 Waitlist Update #93

February 2013 Waitlist Update #93

March 2013 Waitlist Update #90

April 2013 Waitlist Update #88

May 2013 . . . AGCI will no longer give out monthly waitlist numbers. :(