The Beginning

We started this journey back in November 2005 and began gathering all the required adoption paperwork. It was amazing how much information we needed to collect. Little did we know that we would have to update/re-do our paperwork a number of times before meeting our darling little girl. Our paperwork was submitted to China in April 2006, joined Group 121 and the wait began. At the time we started this process the typical wait time was about 18 months (at the most), however that was not the case for us and many other waiting couples. The process slowed down, almost stopped completely and now the time frame kept being pushed out and pushed out and pushed out. So now it is almost 5 years later and we are finally going to become a family. It was a long emotional roller coaster and sometimes it is still hard for me to believe the time has finally come. Rafa and I are extremely excited and counting the days to we have baby Tanith in our arms...the race to see who holds her first is on and I am hoping I win :)