PGN is sending Chase home forever!!!!

Today at 11:15am Carol called with the news; we got PGN approval. What a relief!!! We have known for over a week that our case was at the window but they would not tell us if it was another KO or final approval. But today was I guess that day....Thanks so much for all your prayers - keep them coming until he is on US soil and home for good.

Love
Cory and Erich

Timeline
Birth Certificate - 1-14 days
Passport - 1 day
2nd DNA approval - 1 day
2nd DNA results - 3-5 days
Embassy Date - we will receive an email which will give us around a 5 to 10 day notice of our embassy appt date.

This process is usually around 30 days!

Calling all prayer warriors

Chase's birthmother interview is scheduled for Thursday, June 5th @ 10am. We need your prayers...... We have been told that she will be put through a very tough 90 minutes consisting of holding Chase, bribery, empty promises and verbal abuse. PGN is trying to change the minds of these birthmothers. We are praying that she holds strong to her decision and signs the release form. Please keep us, Chase, and his birthmother in your prayers Thursday. Thanks for your support!

Love
Cory and Erich

Happy First Birthday Chase!!!

We wish you were here with us to celebrate your 1st Birthday! But there will be many more to come....

We love you!

Still nothing to report.....

We are still waiting.... The most current news is that Guatemala is performing interviews with the birth mothers. Apparently, there had been bribery taking place under the old leadership. So now the new President wants to hold all of us up while he does a thorough investigation trying to catch these crooked attornies. We are the ones being punished; they have their babies home and we are stuck with the mess. We are just hoping now that the birth mother doesn't see Chase and decide to keep him. Please continue to pray for us, we need it. He turns ONE on the 30th of May!!! We thought for sure he would be home to celebrate with us.

I wish I had something exciting to report....

Nothing new to report - except our last medical update. Yep, he gained more weight. The chunky monkey is up to 27 pounds and is being sent to a dietician at age 10 months. Yikes! Erich can't wait to get him home and hit the trails running. I think he believes he's going to run before he crawls. We'll just let him keep thinking that. Anywho - hopefully we will be out of PGN this week and then it should be around 4-6 weeks after that. So keep on praying - he will be home really soon. It can't be as long as it has been!

Love
Cory

Finally back in PGN....

We received our Central Authority registration one week ago today. Everyone at CA and the attornies in Guatemala worked all weekend to get us registered by the deadline of February 12th. Then Maria was rushing around getting everyone back into PGN hopefully for the final time. We made it back in yesterday 2/18. Now once again we wait.... So let's sit back and hope for a speedy run through PGN! :)

Guatemala 2008