Quick Update

Wow! It is truly amazing to watch God work on our family! When we started this journey we had planned on going the traditional route with a baby between 0 and 12 months. Little did we know that God already had our child here on earth. On Sept 30th I received the most recent child waiting email from America World. Typically I do not open since a majority of those children that Kenneth and I are not ready to take on. But for some reason I opened the link and there he was! He was not the baby we had envisioned but he was to be ours! So what does this mean you ask?? Time to hurry up the paperwork to Africa. We closed on our new house on Oct 9th and that is when we told my parents about Little Buddy! On Oct 12th our fabulous social worker came to the house to finish the home study and we hope that by the end of the week the referral will be in our hands!! Keep us in our prayers and we will let you know asap what we hear!

A Way To Help

Greetings -
Many people have asked if there is a way they can help! So I took a moment and created this link!

It's Been Awhile

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Well the summer is gone and we are not done with our homestudy! Where oh where did the time go! It went into finding the perfect house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes that is right we are closing on our first house here in Nshville on Oct 9th! The nursery is already picked out and we will begin painting the house come Oct 10th. Our goal is to have the homestudy complete by the end of October! Fingers crossed

We have had to postpone our fundraiser until the spring but will be sure to keep you up to date on the status of Tennessee Fore Adoption!

Wishing you a magical day~
Kenneth, Courtney, Oliver, Annie, Touchet and Pepsi

Home Study -

Greetings -
So it has been a very busy summer for Kenneth and I! Between work, weddings and trying to buy a house we have barely had time for anything else!
We both had our adoption physicals done in June and those are notarized and ready to go! We have completed our joint interview for the home study and I (Courtney) have completed my one on one interivew! Kenneth is scheduling his interview as we speak! We hope to have our dossier complete and off to Africa mid August!

Wishing you a magical day~
Kenneth and Courtney

Busy Busy Busy

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Long time no post!! Well we have been very busy here at the Hammons house!! The paper chase has begun and we have our first meeting with the social worker in just 2 weeks!! We have completed our physicals and our reference letters have been approved!

We also decided to host a golf tournament in Sept in hopes of raising some of the funds needed to bring our little one home! More to come on this as soon as we make some decisions!

We hope all is well with you and will share more soon!

Kenneth Courtney
Oliver, Annie, Touchet and Pepsi (we will make great siblings!!)

Let the paper chase begin

Well the tax return arrived and was sent to the adoption agency the same day! Now we wait for the family coordinator to send us the list of items we are going to need to start working on!

Courtney

Just Waiting

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Well it has been awhile since our last post! Kenneth has had two surgeries to fix an intestinal blockage and repair 3 hernias! We are waiting on meeting our social worker so we can start the home study process!

An Introduction

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Kenneth and I are very excited! In just a few hours we are going to meet some other families that are also in the process of adopting from Ethiopia! It is one thing to sit up at night and read blogs of families on the process. It sure will be something different when you can put names, faces and families with the process.
We will be sure to let you know how it goes!

Courtney

Acceptance Day

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As I sit here tonight I have had the great pleasure of spending the last few hours reading a blog and following a familie's story about the same trip we are about to take! Today at 4:38pm we received the official acceptance into America World's Ethiopia adoption program!!! So now we let the paper pregancy begin. Along with the news of acceptance we were given the first of many pieces of paper that need to be signed and sent to the agency! And of course we signed immediately and it is ready to be mailed in the morning!

The Choice Has Been Made ~

So after much research and even more discussion Kenneth and I have chosen the country of Ethiopia to bring our new little one home from. The reasons are long and based on so many things but we both agree that our time at Disney (and opening Disney's Animal Kingdom) that Africa holds a special place in our heart. We hope to share more about the country in future posts so that you to may feel a bond to a country a world away!

Day One!

Well it is official as of today we have begun the adoption process! Our application and application fee have been secured by our agency and now we wait! It is an awesome thought that in as little as 9 months Kenneth and I could be parents! What an amazing journey God has started us on.