To catch everyone up

I guess I need to catch everyone up on our adoption journey so far. Well, Keith and I started the process of adopting in March of 2006. It was a long awaited road that we had known we had wanted to travel. Many could say that we were predestined to adopt because I had always known that fertility might be an issue one day and I had wanted to adopt ever since I had begun to watch adoption stories on tv. My heart was set on adopting a baby girl from China but we were both under 30 and that meant a wait. We figured we would wait. However, our situation changed and we found the finances to adopt sooner rather than wait. At that point we figured we would look into a different country and wait on a Chinese adoption. We contacted Childrens hope international and they steered us towards Vietnam. It was a program that had just reopened. Everything sounded great and we began our journey. March 06 we applied, completed our homestudy in May, got fingerprinted with BCIS in June 06, received BCIS approval on Sept 4, 06, and began the long wait. The Vietnam program was growing quickly and a long wait had sprouted up. We had no preference to gender because we just wanted a baby. We were even willing to open up to a minor special needs adoption. Months had went by and we were slowly creeping up the list. In November we came close to accepting the referral of another child however, we were unsure of an insurance issue regarding his health and decided not to procee. Needless to say that he is now with a great family and received the medical care he needed. He was destined to be someone else's child. A few more months had passed and a baby girl appeared on the waiting child list with our agency. I knew the minute I had seen her she was destined to be our daughter. Her medical needs only consisted of an antibody from Hep C. Many people think that this is the highly communicable version of Hep, it is not. It is only from blood to blood. Her medicals showed that her chances are good for not actually acquiring the disease and either way we were prepared if she did have it because there are many people out there with this disease that live normal lives. We talked to a doctor and quickly accepted her referral. Thus, began our journey to Lennah Abigail Paulsen.