Somewhere between the ongoing renovation of our Townhome, the "Miss Fayes unit #3" that we purchased and renovated (and finally sold) and the "Todds 40th birthday Peru pilgrimage" we decided that we had just too much love to share for just the two of us. It doesnt really matter who brought it up first or how it progressed.... just that the ball was rolling.
Upon a little investigation, calls to many that we knew and various web searches we decided that the time had come. We secured a home study person and an agency and we were moving forward. (If you need a good home study person we have one - if you need a good agency.... we dont have one)
We decided to take a trip to San Francisco to visit with our good friend Tom and also our good friends Dwain and Ben. Dwain had made this same decision years ago and found his wonderful son Ben... and we knew he would have great advice. Our close friend Heather and our niece Tiffany threw a superb shower here in Dallas and invited the world .... how could anything go wrong?
Fast forward through the months of Forms, interviews, fingerprints (and fingerprints again), visiting the beautiful and international intrigue of the "world of INS" and quite a few long conversations and many questions for our agency and why their rules kept changing (if you need a good agency, again we dont have one) we decided to go to Vietnam and check it out ourselves.
We really and truly thought that by the time we left, in June of 2007, we would have a referral and we may be able to at least see our new child (hopefully a girl). Our dear friend Karen went with us to give us another viewpoint (and to celebrate her.... other 39th bday) and off we went.
We had no idea what was in store at that point or how far we were from the finish.....
Upon a little investigation, calls to many that we knew and various web searches we decided that the time had come. We secured a home study person and an agency and we were moving forward. (If you need a good home study person we have one - if you need a good agency.... we dont have one)
We decided to take a trip to San Francisco to visit with our good friend Tom and also our good friends Dwain and Ben. Dwain had made this same decision years ago and found his wonderful son Ben... and we knew he would have great advice. Our close friend Heather and our niece Tiffany threw a superb shower here in Dallas and invited the world .... how could anything go wrong?
Fast forward through the months of Forms, interviews, fingerprints (and fingerprints again), visiting the beautiful and international intrigue of the "world of INS" and quite a few long conversations and many questions for our agency and why their rules kept changing (if you need a good agency, again we dont have one) we decided to go to Vietnam and check it out ourselves.
We really and truly thought that by the time we left, in June of 2007, we would have a referral and we may be able to at least see our new child (hopefully a girl). Our dear friend Karen went with us to give us another viewpoint (and to celebrate her.... other 39th bday) and off we went.
We had no idea what was in store at that point or how far we were from the finish.....
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