- Soon You'll Come Home

I wonder if Sebastian loves music like his big brother? I bet he does,
I can't wait to see them together.

Merry Christmas

Dossier update

We got our Dossier back from being apostilled yesterday.We now are going to send it off with another family who is going on their trip to pick up their son on the 5th The The Sutton Family. They will hand deliver it to our facilitator and she will translate it.All we will need is our USCIS  letter and our Dossier can be submitted for Sebastian. Then we will get the date for our first trip the trip where we meet him WooHoo! 

The one thing is that we don't have the funds yet, we have to pay our agency $5,500 once we send that USCIS letter. We do have over $5,000 in our RR family FSP but we can't use that until we get a date for our first trip and it will be used for airline tickets, hotel and food while in country.We will have another agency fee of $4,500 due before our 2nd trip as well as airline tickets, hotel and food again.and Sebastian's passport and medical done so he can leave the country.
So I guess I am saying that even though we have some great progress going on and things are going well we still need  help , you can donate to our adoption to help with the agency fees over on the side of this blog  using the chip in.

 Thank you for all of the love prayers and support we have gotten from you all. I will have to say this time around it has been so much less stressful.I think it is because I have learned to fully trust in the Lord, I know that he wants Sebastian home with us and the funds will come.
Hope you all have a Merry Christmas!!

Katrina mom of 8 treasures!

Update on Expenses

Expenses Paid up to now all by us so far no money that has been raised or donated for our adoption of Sebastian has been used yet.
$425 homestudy update
$25 RR application fee
$3500 agency AAC application fee
$40 FBI finger prints taken
$36 FBI background check
$40 to apostille documents
$31 in all for shipping for documents, checks, ect.
$55 online 2 hour class for special needs.
$20 Amanda fingerprints
$40 medicals copay for Mike and I
$16 FBI letters to be  apostilled
$18 shipping for FBI letters
$975 USCIS
$90 apostille of dossier documents
$15 Josh fingerprints
$30 apostille fees for medical letters and I-800A
 Total already paid $5,356.00

Expenses before first trip still need to be paid.
$500 Hague certificate
$5000 first program fee to agency AAC  has to be sent when Dossier is sent.
Total needs to be paid before 1st trip $5,500.00
we will need around $5,000 for travel fees in country fees and anything else we may need while visiting Sebastian this may be a little high but we need to be safe and take more then what we think we may need what ever is left we will use for our 2nd trip.

We will need another $5,000 for our 2nd trip.
as of now we have $5,301.00 in our FSP and $390 in our chip in
leaving  $9,809.00 to be fully funded for our adoption.

If there is anyone out there that needs to make a tax deductible donation for this years taxes you can do that by donating to our adoption. You will get a tax receipt from Reece's Rainbow to to claim it, please think about donating to our adoption and help us bring our baby boy home, Here is where you can donate

http://reecesrainbow.org/48525/sponsornine-2

Urgent prayer request: 3 judges in B ruled the old director of the orphanage at Pl*v*n did not do anything "significant" to the children and so, she will be reinstated as director of the orphanage, which also makes her guardian of all the c

hildren. This ruling has already been made public in the news. PRAY for the other branches of Bulgaria's government to step in on behalf of the CHILDREN. PLEASE PRAY! This is where Sebastian is.. This is were, under her watch, children weighed 1 pound for each year of their life, broken bones were left untreated, children were left in cribs, wet with their own urine all day. Please, pray for ALL of these children. IF you feel led, IF you are looking for a place to make a tax deductible donation before the end of the year, please consider our Reece's Rainbow FSP http://reecesrainbow.org/48525/sponsornine-2 we need to get him home!

We are having a new auction for our butterflies

ornaments and clips auction

Please go check it out, help us bring our boy home.

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Dossier done

We have our Dossier all done just waiting for the I-800a from USCIS  but everything else is done. We are getting it all notarized tomorrow then we will send it to be apostilled and scan it in to send to our agency so it can be translated. Maybe it will speed up  things for us a little  so that when we get the I-800a we can just send that and the rest will already be done.
We need $500 for the Hague overview certificate and $975 to send to the USCIS we can't use the money in our FSP because we don't get that until we get our first travel date. So if you could donate to help us out it would be so great:) 
 you can donate by using the chip in on the side also you could order butterfly clips from us too if you would rather do that. 
it all helps. THANKS SO MUCH!

Add $80 to that I forgot about the apostille fees for the Dossier documents. :(



 closer little boy closer!

Some great things today

we got three great things today ,first we got an email tellling us that someone has donated $3000 to our FSP woohooooo! 2ND we got our FBI letters back all appostled and ready to go. And 3rd got our Home study draft to look over. Should have things ready to go to USCIS sometime next week. WooHoo getting closer sweet boy!