Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Approved!

We received an e-mail from Gladney today stating that we are fully approved to adopt through Gladney!  Here's a little snippet of the e-mail, which I'm just cutting and pasting here for posterity:

Brian and Tracy,

Congratulations, you are now Gladney approved and ready to begin the dossier and ultimately the referral phase of your adoption process. I am mailing you both an approval packet with your approval certificate and quarterly training information for your “approved and waiting” period.

It sure feels good to know the wheels are in motion!  Praise the Lord!

15 comments:

Elisabeth said...

Congratulations on your approval!!!

Ellen

Greg Rodriguez said...

Congrats!!

Love, Angie

Autumn's Mom said...

That is great!! Congratulations xoxo

Karen (formerly kcinnova) said...

WONDERFUL! Praise God!

Dana Cheryl said...

Wasn't the 30th your anniversary?! What a beautiful & inspiring confirmation. You're just so much closer to your forever family!

Rahel said...

one more piece to the puzzle! you are getting closer! blessing!

Cameron and Janelle Staff said...

I am so excited for you guys! My sister in law's sister adopted two kiddos from Ethiopia a few years ago and their boys are precious! I am praying for you guys and so happy you are pursuing adoption!! Miss you!

Unknown said...

Hooooray!!! I am sooooo very happy for you guys!!! Congrats! :) I cried when I saw this pop up in my Google Reader!

Looking forward to seeing the rest of this journey unfold! xoxo

J said...

Congratulations on this first and very important step being complete! You're one step closer to holding your baby(ies) in your arms. :) Yay!

Christina said...

hi tracy,

congrats on your gladney approval. wish you the best in your adoption process. it is a long, hard road but worth every bit of it!

Tam said...

congratulations! from one theatre major to another ;-)
i know how good each step feels when it is completed. soon you will be done with the paperchase and then you will have nothing to do but obsess over other blogs!!

Sparkz said...

I know this is very late but wooo hoo hoo. I am so excited for you guys. Congrats. I just realized that the woo hoo hoo sounds like tiger and that was not what I was going for. It was just excatly what I thought when I saw it. I can't wait to meet you guys also. I have been wanting to meet the Baggets! I hope we can all meet sometime soon! :)

Neil, Amy and The Girls said...

How exciting!!!! I am looking forward to following your journey. I loved reading about your group at your church...how wonderful to be part of such a caring group of people.

lex said...

yay! so EXCITING!

Carrie said...

Awesome! That's a big step. Hey, are they having you do Hague training? I've heard of some agencies requiring it for Ethiopia, but Ethiopia's not a Hague country. Just curious. We are loving our time with our little one. Addis was wonderful, overwhelming and heart-breaking. Can't wait to hear about your next step.