We are looking for pictures! If you can help us out we would greatly appreciate it. Also, please pass this post on to anyone else that you may know that would like to participate. We would like to put together some photo albums to deliver when we return to Vladivostok. Specifically we are looking for pictures of children who:
*Were adopted from Artem Baby Home
OR
*Were adopted from Ussuriysk Baby Home
AND/OR
*Completed the adoption with Irina and Lana (CHI or World Links)
UPDATE: we are including pictures of children adopted from an baby home or orphanage in the Vlad region.
Our plan is to take a “That was Then – This is Now” album to our agency reps as well as the Artem and Ussuriysk baby homes. In addition, we thought we could combine the pictures and give one to the MOE. We believe that given how uncertain everything is with Russian adoptions, it couldn’t hurt to remind those involved of how blessed we all are by our children.
If you are interested in helping out, please email us a picture of your son/daughter before your adoption was final and a picture of him/her now. Please include the full name, date of your adoption, and the baby home he/she was from. Please make note also if Irina and Lana were part of your journey as well. We would like to have all of the pictures compiled by January 15, 2011.
We greatly appreciate any help you (or someone you know) can give us in making these projects come together. We truly believe that we need to keep reminding everyone that the trials and tribulations of the adoption process are completely worth it in the end!
Thank you again,
Justin and Heather Overstreet
Email: jnhoverstreet@yahoo.com
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Boston Levi Overstreet
Married on June 6, 1998
4 yrs, 7 yrs, 9 yrs.
Orphans At play
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Boston Levi Overstreet
About us...
We are Justin and Heather - high school sweethearts. After 6 years of dating we married in 1998 . On October 3, 2000 Brady was born into our family followed by Madison on October 9, 2002. After much prayer and a complete leap of faith, we began our first adoption journey in March of 2008. On April 16th, 2009 Blake entered our family from Vladivostok, Russia. We now feel called to return to Vladivostok one more time to complete our family with a fourth child. We documented our first journey on a blog that is now set to private. On that blog we share our day-to-day happenings. We look forward to sharing our second adoption journey with you through this blog. Thank you for checking in on us!
Private Blog:
overstreetjourney.blogspot.com
Private Blog:
overstreetjourney.blogspot.com
Fundraiser for Baby Home
(Ending the fundraiser on February 22, 2011)
You can purchase a t-shirt to help raise money for our donation to the baby home on trip number two. Please check out this blog entry for more information.
You can purchase a t-shirt to help raise money for our donation to the baby home on trip number two. Please check out this blog entry for more information.
Front and Back of T-Shirt
Justin and Heather
Married on June 6, 1998
Blake, Madison, Brady
4 yrs, 7 yrs, 9 yrs.
Adoption Timeline
- 4/19/11 - Boston-US Citizen!
- 4/14/11 - Left Vlad for Moscow
- 4/1/11 - Gotcha Day!
- 3/31/11 - Court Date!
- 3/30/11 - See Little Guy Again
- 3/26/11 - Leave for Moscow
- 3/16/11 - Received court date!
- 3/6/11 - B turns 2
- 2/22/11 - Judge assigned
- 2/14/11 - Docs submitted to court
- 2/7/11 - Needed Moscow Docs Arrive
- 1/20/11 - Court Doc mailed out
- 12/9/10 - Last visit on trip 1
- 12/6/10 - Meet OUR little guy!
- 12/3/10 - Left for trip 1
- 11/23/10 - Got travel dates
- 11/17/10 - Registered in Vlad!
- 10/29/10 - Mailed 2nd FBI prints
- 10/21/10 - 3rd attempt to
register - 9/29/10 - 2nd attempt to register
- 9/1/10 - 1st attempt to register
- 9/1/10 -
Visas arrived good til 9/1/11 - 8/11/10 I-171H approval arrived
- 8/10/10 Dossier sent to Vlad
- 8/3/10-Fingerprint appointments
- 6/30/10-DCFS homestudy approval letter
- 5/6/10 - FBI clearances arrived
- 5/14/10-Homestudy sent to DCFS for approval
- 7/1/10-Homestudy mailed to UCIS
- 4/15/10-Second homestudy visit
- 3/30/10 - Mailed World Links Agreement
- 3/24/10 - I-600 A sent
- 3/19/10 - First homestudy visit
- 3/18/10 - Mailed World Links Adoption
Application - 3/12/10 - FBI & State fingerprints done for homestudy
- 3/12/10 - Mailed Lifelink Application for homestudy
- 3/06/10 - signed application for adoption
- 3/02/10 - found out Lana & Irina work for World Links now
- 2/23/10 - Decided to discuss adoption #2
Money Conversion
Vladivostok, Russia
6 comments:
What an awesome idea!! Will was brought home from Artem, but Addie was from Baby Home #? (I don't remember, if you can believe that). I'll send you pictures for both children just because!!
Blessings~
That's such a great idea! I hear they really love receiving these pictures too! I don't know any CHI or World Links families outside of you all but there are families with our agency and a few others that have adopted from the two baby houses you mention.
We did not use CHI or World Links and our kids were in Spassk but I think this is a wonderful idea.
I'm so happy you are doing this and would just LOVE to show off how happy Anna is after only 4 months of being home with us from Artem :o)
I posted a link on Facebook for my adoption friends to see. I only personally know a couple kids from Vlad but know the word could be spread by them too! We took a bunch when we went to Kirov and everyone loved them!
This is a great idea. My husband and I are also adopting from the Vlad reigon. We are hoping for our first trip to come within a couple months.
I am very excited and nervous as we begin this part of our journey. If you have any tips for incountry dos or donts that you are comfortable sharing I would so appreciate them.
Vicki
victoriafrankland@gmail.com
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