Dear Family and Friends

Hallo to all of the family and friends that have supported us on this long journey to find our daughter.We are starting this blog spot to keep you up to date with events that are finally going to take place in next few months

As most of you know, we have been in this process of trying to find her for over two years now.

Before that time we looked for her in Croatia for a entire year, but due to Croatian adoption law, we had to change our search to Russia.Since 2006 we have been hoping to adopt a baby girl from Kaliningrad, but that didn't work out either. After long wait with NO results, we decided that our 3rd home study should not be prepared for the agency we were using up till then. So in late May we have updated entire dossier and signed up with new agency. We have trust in Light House adoption from MI . We feel strongly that Laurien will finally find our child. It is very difficult and lengthy process, but we are almost there and we never lost our believes that one day we will be parents to a healthy child that was meant for us this entire time.

We were given a very nice time frame.

Russians are on the vacation during the July and August, but as soon as they get back to work we will be registered in Moscow City and soon after that we will be given travel dates.

We hope for September travel dates to meet our daughter for the first time.On this 1st trip to Russia we should stay in Moscow about a week and then travel back to USA to finalize all of the documents and to wait for scheduled Court day.

Court is scheduled for about 6-8 weeks after the 1st trip.

After Court hearing we are going to become proud parents of our baby girl but we will have to stay another 10 days in Moscow . This is mandatory stay for all adoptive parents, but it is also used to get all of the baby's documents taken care of before emigrating to USA and new wonderful life.

We will keep you all posted.....