Busy Busy Busy

Greetings -
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

Greetings -
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

Greetings -
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

Greetings -
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.