May252009

A New Blog site for the Pachecos

Published by Xavier Pacheco at 10:44 PM under

Welcome to our new blog where we intend to keep family and friends up to date with the happenings in the Pacheco household. In actuality, this blog site was put up to journal an event in our lives that will impact us, our family and our friends in a huge and wonderful way. We can't say much about it YET. Please stay tuned, subscribe to the blog and be ready.



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Lilypie

Timeline

  • -Thinking about adoption (3/1998-4/2009)
  • -Decision to adopt (4/11/2009)
  • -Submitted Application to Agency (4/23/2009)
  • -Began paperwork!
  • -First homestudy visit (5/11/2009)
  • -Identified a waiting sibling pair (5/22/2009)
  • -Second homestudy visit, 4.5 hours! (5/30/2009)
  • -Third homestudy visit (6/6/2009)
  • -First adoption training class in Denver (6/13/2009)
  • -Signed completed homestudy (6/17/2009)
  • -Homestudy is approved by State of Colorado (6/29/2009)
  • -USCIS (Immigration) completed (7/6/2009)
  • -Biometric fingerprinting done (7/7/2009)
  • -Complete package of paperwork sent to WA DC (7/13/09)
  • -Paperwork on its way to Ethiopia
  • -Officially referred!!! WooHoo! (7/16/09)
  • -Waiting, waiting, waiting!
  • -We have a court date set for Oct 19! YES! (8/19/09)
  • -WE PASSED COURT! Our family has grown! (10/19/09)
  • -Flew to Ethiopia (11/28/09)
  • -Met Yemi and Abe! GOD IS GOOD! (11/30/09)
  • -Arrived home, our family is whole (12/5/09)

Ethiopia

 

Flag of Ethiopia

Time in Addis Ababa

 

Sele Enat on Google Earth

 

SeleEnat Orphanage
Main Ethiopia Guest House
New Ethiopia Guest House