The Rogers Family: Getting Closer!!!

Monday already. However, this Monday brings new excitement for the Rogers family. We are in final dossier preparations and hope to have everything done at the end of this month. On Friday we received our appointments for CIS fingerprinting. Our homestudy agency didn't think we'd get that until our homestudy had been forwarded to them. However, they surprised us and we get to go next week to be fingerprinted. Then, when our homestudy is done, that's the final piece of this crazy puzzle. At that point there will be a lot of frantic trips to the post office and lots of certified mail I'm sure but then it will be onto the wait. We are really hoping that our wait won't be that long. We know that our wait is going to be at least 6 months from the point that our dossier is officially added to the waiting pile. The good news is that the referrals have started coming in again and just in the past week there have been 5. Some as young as 1 week old.
Tonight I am meeting my friend Laura for dinner and a notary party. She is going to be notarizing all of the documents that Stuart and I have put together for our dossier. Our friends and family have really been very helpful on our journey. We are truly blessed to have the support system that we do and we know our child will be also. Later in the week we will be scanning in our dossier and emailing it to our CHI social worker for her to look over. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we don't have to redo anything.
In other news, the mighty Impact improved to 4-0 on the season this past Sat. It was a hard fought game but we came out on top by about 3 goals. And last, but not least, here are a few pics from our family photo shoot this past weekend. I'll post the rest when we get them.