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The Denis Family

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Christmas 2011


Posted by The Denis Family at 4:27 PM

4 comments:

chaoticfamily said...

I see a whole lot of precious. Lovely photos.

December 27, 2011 9:55 PM
The Drinkwaters said...

Beautiful, happy girls!

December 28, 2011 1:20 PM
Stephanie said...

Such joy on their faces!

December 30, 2011 9:19 AM
Debbie Sauer said...

So glad you are still posting. Love the pics. Blessings

January 19, 2012 6:42 PM

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The Denis Family

The Denis Family
We are a family of five who grew our family through the miracle of adoption. This is the story of our journey East to bring Miah home.
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Our sweet Miah

Our sweet Miah
Miah's Refferal Photo. This was the first photo we saw of our daughter!

Current Time in Beijing

100 Good Wishes Quilt

  • Miah's 100 Good Wishes Quilt

Blogs I Follow

  • The Raudenbush Family
  • Life's Little Wonders
  • Banman Land
  • We Are Family
  • little lilah grace
  • The Drinkwater Family
  • Hope, Faith and Izabella DanielLei (An ChunLei)
  • The Journey
  • Learning Together at Home
  • solo and the wookiee
  • Melissa and Chris's adoption journey....
  • The Gift of Family
  • Klassy 5

Followers of our Journey

Our Timeline

Jan 2007- Initial Meeting with Adoption Agency

Feb 6, 2007 We picked up our Home Study Package and paid our first deposit.

Feb 7, 2007 Criminal Record Checks Done

Feb 14, 2007 Medical Checkups for both of us!

Feb 14, 2007 Prior Contact Forms with the Ministry for Children and Families. (They check to see if a child in our care has ever been removed)

Feb 15,2007 Kim's Blood Tests

Feb 16, 2007 Collecting all the required documents; Passports for both of us, original birth certificates, marriage certificate, records of employment, financial records, reference checks (done by some very lovely people Thank you!)

Feb 18,2007 Our first visit with our Social Worker for our Home Study.

Feb 20, 2007 Drew's Blood Tests

Feb 26,2007 All Medical History Forms completed

March 4, 2007 2nd visit with our Social Worker for our Home Study.

March 18, 2007 Our third visit from our Social Worker for our Home Study.

April 9, 2007 Today was our LAST visit with our Social Worker! We signed off on our home study!

June 26, 2007 We are now DTC (Dossier to China).

July 11, 2007 YEAH! We have received our LID of July 2, 2007!

February 2, 2008 Transferred our homestudy to Sunrise Adoption Agency to adopt from Taiwan. We will receive their 13th referral from the Chung Yi orphanage in Taipei . We are still maintaining our position in China as well.

July 25, 2008 - Registered with Family Outreach International (FOI) to be placed on their Waiting Child list and paid them our first deposit.

August 2008- Home Study Revision & Home inspection

September 11 2008 -Received Provincial Approval to adopt a child with a SN from China. Our Dossier is forwarded to FOI.

March 27, 2009 -Received Referral!!!

March 28, 2009- Sent Letter of Intent (LOI) to China

April 8, 2009 - Received Pre-approval!

May 4, 2009 - Signed the Letter Seeking Confirmation (LSC)

June 10, 2009 Received Travel Approval (TA)

July 13, 2009 Gotcha Day!
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Taiwan Adoption Timeline

1. Homestudy Process (3 months) - Feb/April 2007

2. Agency received Home Study- Put on Waiting List- Feb 2, 2008

3. Revision of Home Study - July 2008

4. Dossier #1 sent to Chung Yi -

5. Referral (4 - 12 months) -

6. Dossier #2 (1 - 4 weeks) -

7. Authorization to Travel (5 - 9 months) -

8. Travel (5 - 10 days) -

My Favorite Links

  • China Adoption Web Sites
  • China Center of Adoption Affairs
  • Chung Yi Orphanage in Taiwan
  • Photos of Chinese Orphanages
  • Research China
  • Sunrise Adoption Agency- Our Agency for Tiawan
  • Taiwan Adoption Blogs
  • The Rumor Queen- The best source for updates on Adoption from China


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