Here is what we know:
Our papers were submitted to court on February 15th (our Feb 14th) and a judge was assigned one week later on February 22nd. The judge told our agency representative to check back in two weeks – March 8th. March 8th is a holiday. So the next time we will possibly hear anything is March 9th. And at that point we may get a court date; we may be asked to redo paperwork; we may be told that she hasn’t looked at the papers at all and check back in another two weeks.
Emotions are running high. Brady, Madison, and Blake are getting frustrated. And I am having a hard time putting things into words so my blog entries leave a lot to be desired…..
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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:
I am so sorry. Addie and Will got rather frustrated with the whole waiting game as well. Our judge took the entire sixty days til she set our date. But...she didn't request any additional paperwork!!
Still praying.....
The waiting is so hard. And you are guys are SO close- it makes things even harder.
Trust that God is at work in your waiting and He is still on His throne.
Praying for you and your family of 6 today.
Keep thinking good thoughts!!! God is taking care of you...even though it might not feel like it. Praying that you hear something on the 9th and that something is a court date!!!!
Heather,
Thinking of your family! This wait is so difficult on us adults who understand (well kind of...not really) I cannot even imagine having to explain to the kids! Hoping your angels in Vlad will hear on the 9th and that the judge will not need any further docs and you will have a court date just a few weeks later! Praying for your family! Tracey
Heather, don't worry. Alot of families are moving through over here right now. I think they're just busy. Two more weeks will seem like an eternity... but I just know you'll hear soon. It took about 2 1/2 weeks after we submitted. I'm so sorry... this waiting is the hardest part. We can work together on some projects? :-)
everyone is excited to meet the little one, hang in there and keep busy it will be here soon
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