Aug 2008

We'll this month went by pretty quick, Last week we were on vacation in Branson Mo.. It was wonderful, the first vacation we took in 3 years. Our vacation started out with Driving to St. Louis on Friday, then on Saturday we went to the arch, on a riverboat cruise, and then to the zoo. Lots of walking on our first day. Then on Sunday we drove to Branson till Thursday. While in Branson we went to the Titanic museum, dinosaur Museum, go cats, toy museum, haunted house, 57 heaven car show, china acrobats, lots of shopping, and we even got our picture done in a hill billy antique pic. Then on Thursday we stopped in Springfield and went to bass pro shops, which is a great set up and tourist attraction in itself. We got home late Thursday night and the weekend we just visited with relatives that happened to come into town from Canada. It was hard having to go back to work.

New pole to vote on

There is a new pole to vote on.

Please check out our older pole results, in posts " pole results"

referrals July 2008

Sorry I have not updated the site lately. But here we are on referrals. Plus I updated the referrals chart. to see the chart in a larger size double click on the chart. Referrals as of July 6th. CCAA ( china affairs) has given out referrals for people who are logged in on or before Jan 27th, 2006. We are logged in March 22, 2006. So we are a little under two months of log in dates before we get our referral. Some people say that after the Olympics is over the program will speed up. I hope so. It has been taking 6 months to get through one month of referrals. SO if it stays at this rate we have about 11 more months to go. If it speeds up we can have as little as 4 months.




What does referrals mean?
Referrals are given out once a month from China (CCAA china affairs) When your paperwork is sent over to China they go through your paperwork and log in into a computer and check for updates if needed. Once you are logged in CCAA gives you a log in date ours is March 22, 2006. Everyone that has a log in date before us gets a referral before us. Once you are logged in CCAA then sends your paperwork over to a different room where they go into detail into your paperwork, they sometimes ask for more information or deny couples for certain reasons. This is called an audit. Once you have been audited they send your paperwork to the matching room to sit til it is your turn to get a referral. We got notified Feb 3, 2007 that we were audited and everything was approved. Now we sit til it is our turn for a referral.
Once it is our turn for a referral we will receive a package that includes pictures of our child with information on background, size, approx date of birth, medical evaluations ect. We have approx 24 hours after receiving a referral to accept the child or not. If not then we go back into the waiting pool for approx. 3 months. If you have any questions about why it is taking so long please read updates on main page in posts " why is it taking so long to get Makayla" or "Referrals and what they mean"
Past referrals:

February referrals are in

Well Feb 2008 referrals are in. The CCAA is Finished with Referrals through Jan 27,2005. As all can see we are getting closer to March 22, 2006. However it seems to be taking forever. To see the chart better just double click on it.





What does referrals mean?
Referrals are given out once a month from China (CCAA china affairs) When your paperwork is sent over to China they go through your paperwork and log in into a computer and check for updates if needed. Once you are logged in CCAA gives you a log in date ours is March 22, 2006. Everyone that has a log in date before us gets a referral before us. Once you are logged in CCAA then sends your paperwork over to a different room where they go into detail into your paperwork, they sometimes ask for more information or deny couples for certain reasons. This is called an audit. Once you have been audited they send your paperwork to the matching room to sit til it is your turn to get a referral. We got notified Feb 3, 2007 that we were audited and everything was approved. Now we sit til it is our turn for a referral.
Once it is our turn for a referral we will receive a package that includes pictures of our child with information on background, size, appox date of birth, medical evulations ect. We have appox 24 hours after receiving a referral to accept the child or not. If not then we go back into the waiting pool for appox. 3 months. If you have any questions about why it is taking so long please read updates on main page in posts " why is it taking so long to get Makayla" or "Referrals and what they mean"

Update on information

Sorry I have not updated on info for a while. Busy busy with Christmas!!!!! Referrals are on there way and tonight I am going to sit down and arrange all the info over the last two months for all.
Dec referrals were from Dec 9th through Dec. 14th 2005. Yes 6 days
Jan referrals were from Dec 15th through Dec 19th 2005. YES 5 days
I am hoping that they finish Dec. 2005 this month. Cross your fingers.

November Referrals are in

What does referrals mean?
Referrals are given out once a month from China (CCAA china affairs) When your paperwork is sent over to China they go through your paperwork and log in into a computer and check for updates if needed. Once you are logged in CCAA gives you a log in date ours is March 22, 2006. Everyone that has a log in date before us gets a referral before us. Once you are logged in CCAA then sends your paperwork over to a different room where they go into detail into your paperwork, they sometimes ask for more information or deny couples for certain reasons. This is called an audit. Once you have been audited they send your paperwork to the matching room to sit til it is your turn to get a referral. We got notified Feb 3, 2007 that we were audited and everything was approved. Now we sit til it is our turn for a referral.
Once it is our turn for a referral we will recieve a package that includes pictures of our child with information on background, size, appox date of birth, medical evaulations ect. We have appox 24 hours after recieving a referral to accept the child or not. If not then we go back into the waiting pool for appox. 3 months. If you have any questions about why it is taking so long please read updates on main page in posts " why is it taking so long to get Makayla" or "Referrals and what they mean"