Today-SDA Appointment

Today we had our SDA appointment. It was not successful. Kids we were hoping to adopt are not eligible for adoption, and there is some issues with paperwork. We have two options: come back home and wait when kids become available and come back to Ukraine to finish adoption. Or go to another appointment and try to find different child. We are still not sure what to do. For now we are praying and waiting for some feed back from SDA .

We are good, kids are fine. Baby was vomiting last night, and today, also she has diarrhea, but after a prayer she is much better now. Boy are find, and were in Ukrainian time the first day/night.
We were supposed to be in Ukraine Sunday at 1pm, but do weather issues our flight had to return back to Frankfurt, after almost touching the ground. It was interesting experience, but we do appreciated Lufthansa to offer us a hotel and take care of our family for their expenses. We had a good night at Frankfurt, good food, and kids were well rested. More details to come, baby fusing.

Less than 1 day

We had a very busy week, preparing for our trip to Ukraine. We had a lot of ups and downs, but looks like it everything working out and we are truly blessed by our God.

In Kiev we have a place to stay (friends of friends), and Sergey's dad will come to airport to pick us up.

I was trying to pack light , and take less stuff as possible with 3 kids on board, and I think I did a good job :) only 3 suitcases, and 3 carry-ones.

Boys are very excited, and ready to go.
Yesterday DJ, before going to sleep, came to me and while sitting on my lap, asked for a song(I am a horrible singer), but I think kids don't mind. After I was done "singing", DJ said " Mom, we are leaving Saturday early morning, and I like to sleep in on Saturdays, please, make sure you wake me up" Funny boy, :)))

DD, small Daniel, counting days until we leave, and crossing on the calender. He agreed that it's ok to leave his BOBBY at home. Bobby, this is a name of his stuffed dog. I have no idea, why Bobby, and I think DD was 2, 5 when he came up with this name. Now, DD, will not even go to bed with out his Bobby :))) I am still thinking, take it or not with us.

We are still not sure who we are adopting, but please keep praying that God move mountains. As soon as I can, I will share more information about our new kids. There is a huge possibility that we might have to move our appointment date with SDA for few days later, do to some paperwork. :( Please pray, it's all in Gods hands.

Christmas EVE

On New Year we did our own photo-shout.

New styles by ElliAna Rose lol

Christmas Cookies, after baking with kids, we did little plates of cookies, card, and took it to few neighbors

God Bless you!

9 more days

We are so excited , but there is many things that we do worry about it and praying.

We decided to take kids with us, we have no one to watch them here at US. I know it's not going to be easy, but we have no other choice.

Our kids deal bad with changes, so please pray about this. 
The most I worry about our Danik, he has some health issues,  I never talked about on here, and I will not go into details (maybe some other time). Please pray for our son, that travel and time changing will not cause any problems. 


Denny should be fine, he might get a little whinny but we will deal with it :))

Baby ElliAna, I have no idea, how she will react to all changes. I hope that as long as I am with her, she will be fine.

I am doing some packing already, making lists(what to buy, take, pack, do) before we leave to Ukraine.

We have one more prayer request, there is kids that desperately needs a family, but in order for us to adopt them  God has to do a huge miracle. Please pray!

Happy 4th Birthday Daniel D(Denny)!

I can't believe that my Denny is already 4 years old. Time flies so fast and sometimes I wish to get back to the moment when I touched, and hold Denny for the first time!

He is full of energy, funny, goofy, and loves his brother and sister.

Happy Birthday Denny! We love you!!!

Less than 2 weeks

We have less than 2 weeks before we leave to Ukraine and I still have so so many things to do.
Please pray for us,  for our family!'

Thank you

God Bless you

We have our appointment date :)

We have an appointment at SDA on January 24, 2012. We are excited and now I am worry to get everything done before we leave. We have less than 3 weeks to get tickets, get ready, pack and be ready to go to Ukraine to meet our child/ren.

Tomorrow we are planning to get tickets, and write down all lists, what needs to be done before we leave.

Now we have an extra bedroom because My brother, he use to live with us, moved out 2 days ago. This is one more project we are working on, painting extra bedroom. The plan is to move boys to this new looking bedroom before Ukraine. And the other bedroom will be waiting for our new child/ren.

2 years home

I been so busy with holidays, and the whole family being sick for more then a week, I didnt' have a time to post about Daniel J.

December 22, marked 2 years since  I pick it up Daniel J from orphanage, and we are so blessed he is our son.

December 26, 2009 we landed in San Francisco, and Daniel J were home with us. I will try to post later about his progress over these 2 years, and he did make a lot of progress.

We are so thankful to our God for Daniel J , for keeping him safe, and for allowing to be his forever family.

We love you Daniel J!

Still waiting...

We are still waiting to receive our travel date. At least we do know that our dossier has been approved and registered on 12/16/2011. SDA still don't give appointment dates. So we are still in waiting position, but at least we know that our paperwork is fine.

We had a great Christmas, but we were thinking a lot about our child/ren, we do pray for the. And I still keep repeating to myself that "God has a plan" lol.
Our facilitator thinks we will travel late January-mid February, but again only God knows. As soon as I know something I will post.

Thank you for all of your prayers, and encouragement.

Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful day! Kids were good, and we got a lot of family time.

Happy Birthday Jesus!!!

Not traveling yet... but

It's been a long time since I posted my last post. We been busy, and holidays coming, and many, many other things had been going on, and I was not in the mood of posting.

Updates on our adoption. We been submitted in November, but SDA was not giving out travel/invitation for the last two month, so we been just waiting. Last week we found out the SDA had reopen, and functioning as usual so from our facilitator words, we should expect to get our official invitation next week.

We are praying for Gods perfect timing for everything. I will post more if I have time, also will try to post some pictures.

God Bless you

Not submitted

We didn't'  go through submission process, choose to be on the safe side, and did rescheduled our submission date for November 23. Will try to write a post on this. Been very long day, and it's time to go to bed.

Dossier in Kiev..

I just wanted to let everyone know that our dossier made it save to Kiev. Praise our God. Thank you everyone for your prayers. Its a long story, and  we were  sure that we will miss this submission day, but....

We took our envelope to FedEx on November 1st, around 4:30 pm, and they had their pick up for a day already. So they said that our envelope will leave their office on Wednesday, at 4 pm. When I check our tracking # on Thursday morning, November 3rd,  system couldn't find anything for our tracking #.
 Sergey had to call FedEx office to see what is going on. Lady at the FedEx office said, that they had some issues with pick up, and our package was still at the office. My heart dropped, I knew that there is no way that our envelope will make it before our submission.Actually our envelope left local office November 3rd evening, and did 3 stops in US before leaving to Ukraine. Also Fedex promised that our envelope will be there on November 10th, and it's after our submission day. But God is amazing God, and it took less then 2 business days for our envelope to make it to Ukraine, and be delivered to our facilitator!!!!


*** We are getting closer and we already preparing for our trip. Little by little we are getting warm cloth for everyone, and stuff that we will take with us. I am getting more nervous and cant' wait for everything to be over, and have our child/ren home with us.

Dossier on the way to Ukraine!

Yesterday we mailed our dossier to Ukraine, and if everything will go smooth we will have our submission date next week. We are very excited and ready to go to Ukraine to find our child/ren. But we put all our paperwork, time and everything into our Father's hands. Please pray with us for next week submission date, and for our paperwork get to Ukraine on time.


Thank you

God Bless you

We are alive :)

We are still home, and praying that by this submission date we will have our I171H.
We had our fingerprints scheduled on October 20, but we went to our local office and they took us in and we were able do our fingerprints on October 11.

Once our paperwork got to USCIS it seem like everyone who had to do anything with our paperwork had to take vacation at the same time :)) First it was our case officer, she took her vacation two times while reviewing our paperwork :) On the 14th of this month we finally were approved by our case officer, and our paperwork went to Supervisor, for another approval by him. And we found out he was on vacation all last week, and came back just today:) So we are waiting again and praying that he will have our paperwork out of his office today, or tomorrow.

I just know God has a plan, and now when girls that we liked to adopt are adopted and have a family, God does have a different plan for our family.

Looks like we will have to spend Christmas and New Year in Ukraine. It should be fun ! Last time I spend New Year in Ukraine , was  13 year ago.

Girls have a family

Last week we found out that girls, we prayed for , have a family. We are very happy that they got adopted. I guess God has a different plan for our family.

On the sad side, we didn't make it for our submission date, and now we will have to reschedule, and have it a little later. Delay is on our officer/case worker side. A week ago she was on vacation, and didnt' pull our file, and we didn't get scheduled for fingerprints. But now, we are not in a hurry to travel, since child/ren we want to adopt are unknown by us, only God know a perfect timing.

But it would be nice if we can come back home with our kid/s, before New Year.

Please pray....

quick update

We been super busy lately, and there is just no time for everything. I am not sure if  we will get our USCIS approval for our submission date, most likely our submission date will need to be reschedule. 

We Just have remember, God has a plan. 

Last week we been working on our last pieces of dossier documents, and we have most of them. Still waiting for employment letter, and house letter, but we should have it in our hands this week.

We are still praying and thinking about girls, and I am working hard to find out any info I can to get back in contact with them. 

We still need a lot of finances for this adoption, and we know that God is in control. 

Please pray

Labor Day Weekend!

We had a great Labor day weekend. Sunday spontaneously we decided and went to the ocean. We had a good time as a family! 

Daddy and his princess! This girl not scared of anything! 

My little handsome boy! He is starting to show this cute personality, always make everyone laugh !

 My oldest handsome son, with beautiful eyes! He is best son, and best big brother! 

 Guess who took this picture! Danik did a great job! 

 Just me

Kids played in the sand!

 Danik has a little helper :)

Playing in the water :) Everyone had a great time! 

Brothers

And Monday we spend all day home. Was very nice, quite day.

Our lunch. Corn, potatoes, pork, shish kabobs, and kids had hotdogs. 

 Everyone waiting  for food...

 Garlic Bread

 Salad

It's seems like lately we do have better family days. I really want to post about changes in us, and Danik in the past few months.

He is With You - Mandisa

This song is very powerful! Every time I hear this song, it makes me realize that I am not along, and there is time for everything. And after hard times/tears will be laughter, and joy! This song always lift my spirit up!

Been a hard week...

This week was a hard week for me. I am emotionally very tired.

Danik got in-trouble in school few times, made few bad choices.Nothing big, just  boys stuff :)  Also he made bad choices at home, and got in some trouble.
He got his first citation at school yesterday for kicking his ball after a  drill. He and boys were playing basketball game and when drill went on  for recess to be over Danik needed few more shots to win, so he through a ball few more times to be a winner. Actually it made me smile. I wasnt' happy that he did follow school rules, but Danik is very competitive and if we regulate his skills in good directions he will be very successful in his life.

Denik, and Elliana were on and off with whining and crying. I think they are fighting a cold or something. Baby doesnt' sleep through a night yet, and it been hard this last week.


Also we are still waiting for USCIS response. Last thing that they told us it was that we do have a case worker, and she will contact us, but nothing yet.

Other documents getting together, and by the end of next week we should have all or most of the documents needed for dossier in our hands.  We trust God with our adoption, and we know that HIs hand is in every our move.

I love God, my family, and my life :)

Few pictures, not too many words.

This is what I found in our kitchen, on the wall. From Danik. Bring tears to my eyes. 

Portland, OR at the park

 Visiting my grandfather, in Portland, OR

 My mom and kids

 My mom and Danik

 My handsome boys :))

 This is new Hollywood smile from baby Elliana :)))