Welcome!

This blog began as we documented our adoption of our third child, Caleb. It is now an eclectic journal of our often amusing lifestyle with 4 young children.

We do try to "keep it simple" because our lives are obviously busy enough! We try to hold true to what we firmly believe is the most important: family, friends, and faith.

We hope you enjoy our everyday happenings!

8/30/07

Latest update, but not the news we wanted to hear

We learned today that our case was "kicked out" of PGN. PGN is basically the Guatemalan Attorney General's Office, that gives the final approval for all Guatemalan adoptions. When an adoption case is "kicked out", it means that something is wrong with one of the documents. So, our attorney has to fix the problem, and then we are resubmitted. Although we don't know what the problem was, we were resubmitted on August 13th.

As a general rule of thumb, it takes about 8 weeks to be approved by PGN (if we're not KO'd again). Then, it can take another 4-8 weeks after that until we are able to travel to Guatemala and bring Caleb home with us forever.

So now we are realistically looking at December. If we are KO'd again, we might not even have him home by Christmas. It's not the news we wanted to hear, to say the least.

Finally, here's a new photo of Caleb that we received. Love, Keith and Kris


8/15/07

No news, no update, just still hoping

The question seems to be coming up a lot lately, "when is Caleb coming home?" Our answer is not any different than before - we simply do not know. Approval of adoption cases in Guatemala seem to be slowing down even more, unfortunately. All we can do is wait, and hope that this adoption is approved soon.

We are still hoping to bring him home sometime in October, but honestly, we just don't know.

If you look at this picture, you'll see that even Caleb is wondering when he'll be coming home with us forever. Trust us, we want him home NOW!!!
Have a good week, everyone!

Caleb, 9 1/2 months

Caleb, 9 1/2 months
Here is a great picture of Caleb we took during our visit trip.

Caleb, 4 1/2 months old

Caleb, 4 1/2 months old
This is our favorite picture from the group we received with our referral.