Welcome to our Blog

We finally got this blog put together! We haven't blogged much before, but thought this would be a good way to share our adoption journey with friends and family and to tell them any prayer requests. I (Diana) think that creating this blog was more trying on our marriage than any other thing we've done throughout this adoption process! Part of our story is written on the left side of this page and our adoption timeline is on the right. We leave on Mon., Nov. 15 and arrive in Kiev on the 16th. Our meeting with the State Dept. in Kiev is at noon on Thurs., Nov. 18 (which is 5:00 am est). This is when the State Officials will present us with one or many different profiles of little girls to choose from. We would covet your prayers about this! Once we decide on a child, we will go to her orphanage, which could be far from Kiev, to visit her. We will take video and photos of her and e-mail them along with her medical records (which are usually pretty limited) back to a physician in Raleigh. We will have 72 hours to decide whether we want to accept that referral. If we do not accept the referral, we will head back to Kiev and wait for another appointment with the State Dept. to get another referral. We pray that the first child referred to us is THE ONE. It is very difficult to imagine having to "turn down" a referral. Once we accept a child referred to us, we have to wait about 10 days to go to court. If all goes well during court, she will declared to be our child and Paul will then return to the U.S. I will then stay during a waiting period of about two weeks longer in order to bring our new little girl home. I will probably be in Ukraine for about a month and Paul about three weeks if the first referral is accepted. Please be praying for this whole process! We are trusting that God has a plan for us and that He will lead us to the child that He has chosen for our family!