Love the Unloved: We are home!!

ABOUT MINA:

Mina is a precious little girl recently rescued from an orphanage in Eastern Europe who is now finally home with her forever family! She had been without a mother or father to love her & care for her each day. No one to rock her, kiss her gently or tell her she's loved. She is blessed with an extra chromosome known as Down syndrome, which for her that meant a life of being viewed as worthless in the country she was born into & a life without hope. Because of this her parents gave her up at the age of 6 months when they found out the diagnosis & from there her life progressivly went down hill. We are the Gower family residing in OKC who recently adopted this little angel. She was extremely malnourished and unable to do just about anything when we first met her. She will be 2 in January & is the size of a 3-6 month old weighing 14lbs. She continues to amaze us at how quickly she is progressing with love and nutrition. She has learned to sit up, roll over, feed herself finger foods, hold her own bottle and loves to interact with toys and other children. Her life has changed so much in such a short period of time and will forever be changed! Thank you Lord for putting a burden on our hearts to rescue this little blessing and making her apart of our family!

Mina is officially a US citizen!! Horray! We are so excited to be home! Mina did absolutely wonderful on all the many flights. I will post pics and tell u all about it tomorrow once we're well rested! Night!

TIMELINE 4 MINA!

2/11/2010 Came Across Reece's Rainbow

2/13/2010 Attended Ruslana's Banquet

2/15/2010 Inquired about Precious Mina!

2/17/2010 Mailed OK Background Check

2/18/2010 Home Study Meeting
All forms submitted to RR to hold Mina
Background check completed in person
Applied for Jim’s passport

2/19/2010 Mailed check to RR
Mailed Melissa's passport for update
Mailed VA Background check

2/23/2010 Got birth Certificates in person

2/26/2010 Medical Physicals & lots of blood work

3/3/2010 I600a app in the mail to Texas

3/2010 Compiling Dossier Paperwork

3/15/2010 Apostilled Power of Attorney’s and Child Specific Form
Mailed POAs & CSP to Ukraine

3/15/2010 One month waiting for Mina

3/22-26 Consigned in JBF sale to raise funds (Raised $1,000 for Mina!!)

3/24/2010 Have all but 2 docs compiled & notarized for dossier

4/15/2010 Two months waiting 4 Mina

4/19/2010 Received completed homestudy
Mailed home study to USCIS

5/21/2010 Fingerprint Appointment

5/21-23/2010- HUGE Benefit Event 4 Mina~ Raised $3,600!

6/5/2010 I-171H arrived!!

6/7/2010 Dossier Off! Should arrive Wednesday!

6/9/2010 Dossier Delivered to Mina's country!

6/17/2010 Dossier Submitted to SDA Office!

7/1/2010 Received SDA appt date: Aug 3, 2010!

7/31/2010 Flying out to Meet Mina!

8/3/2010 SDA appointment!

8/4/2010 Received permission to visit Mina!

8/5/2010 Met our beautiful girl Mina!

8/10/2010 Court to become Mina's parents!

8/21/2010 10 day wait period is up!

8/25/2010 Get court Decree
Obtain Mina's birth certificate
Apply for passport
At last Get Mina out of the orphanage for Good!

8/31/2010 Pick up Mina's passport
Drove to Kiev

9/1/2010 US Embassy Visa paperwork
Medical appointment

9/2/2010 US Embassy pick up Visa

9/3/2010 Fly back home! Horray!!

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Friday, September 3, 2010

We are home!!

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