Planning for the Nursery

John and I actualy sat down today and attempted to plan out the nusery. I think we are just going to need to have some of the furniture down stairs and start playing around with the lay out. It is so difficult to figure out what we need since we don't know specific ages and whether there will be one or two children. All in good time we will figure these things out. Not much new to report. We will be going to Portland on Wednesday to do our USCIS paperwork and to start getting the rest of the dossier translated. This at least feels like progress, kind of like branching into the second tri-mester of adoption:)

Gratitude:

I would like to thank all of the many wonderful and generous friends and family that have helped us raise funds to make this adoption possible.

Linda Mendel, Manuel Mendel, Stephanie Mendel, Jim Kelley, Sue Porter, Ruth Roth, Harold and Marissa Apolinski, Aunt Brenda, Aunt Helen, Glen and Gina Horton, Jean and Dan Bringgold, Judy Buchanan, David and Holy Mendel, Nancy and Bill Denis.

Thank you also to those who have provided us with loads of love and support and in-kind services. All of your gifts are bringing us one step closer to our child(ren).

Love,
The Decker’s

One Last Piece of Paper on the Way!!

We have finally received our invitation to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services to get our fingerprinting done so that we may receive our I-171H. We will travel to Portland on November 29th. This piece of paper will be the last page we need for our dossier. Fortunately the rest is finished and when we travel to Portland our agency will look over it and send it off to be apostled in Salem. Once that it done all of the other papers will start being translated to Russian while we wait for the fingerprints to be processed. It is so exciting to be moving on to the next step.
Karon
11/18/06