4 years ago today...

WE'RE CELEBRATING!!! It was 4 years ago today that Kaitlyn's birthmom came and asked me if we would like to adopt her baby. She was 5 months along and was a previous high school student of mine. =) Every year on this day Kaitlyn and I do something special which usually involves lunch at the Olive Garden. Today we are double celebrating because we officially turned in all of our paperwork, family profile and sent our fingerprint cards in to be checked. It is just fitting that it all happened on April 20th--a special day for us! The weather is incredible, my truck said it was 81!!! Sweet!!! Kaity's thermometer read 101.2....NOT so sweet! She was such a trooper during our errands, but was slowly fading away and when I felt her forehead at lunch I was like...great! Where did she pick this up? She was totally fine yesterday!

Here is a timeline and some pics of our journey so far....

September 2007

Had our first consultation with the agency to begin the process again.

June 6, 2008

Family Profile Completed! (See digital book below!)

August 2008

Breakthrough in finances to fund the adoption!

January 2009

Paperwork for release of funds submitted.

March 2009

Funds available.

April 10, 2009

Started compiling info for application paperwork. Jim got his physical done.

April 17, 2009

Application paperwork DONE! I got my physical done.
Getting our fingerprints taken DIGITALLY...NO INK!! YAY!

Kaity waited patiently while we signed the forms.

Our paperwork is really an update since we are going through the same agency as before and I've had our family profile done for quite a while (the digital book). These are all the items that they reviewed and took from us today...now we wait for the next step. =)

April 20, 2009
Kaity blew two "wishes"...one for a brother and one for a sister before we walked in. She got to give them the book.

Now we wait until paperwork is reviewed and we are contacted for the next step!

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Yesterday was really the first bright sunny day so Kaity and I ran down the hill to see if there were any daffodils left in the fields! There was one field left uncut! YAY! Last year was the first time we didn't get any pics because the weather was cold, cloudy and rainy during the whole season so I did NOT want to miss out again! I took a TON, but here are a few that I really liked...