We finally received word today that our home study is officially complete! With all the holidays and people being "out of the office", it really held things up a bit. Unfortunately this caused us to not meet the December 31st deadline for the Show Hope grant. I was really hoping to meet this deadline because Show Hope has a long process and wait time before you hear anything back from them. We can however still apply and their next deadline is February 28th; then it takes 90 days after the deadline date to hear anything back. That will put us at the end of May before hearing anything from them. With the other organization we are applying to however, JSC Foundation, there is no deadline date and you hear back within 3 weeks. We will mail our application tomorrow. I have heard quite a few people have received good size grants from this organization so you can be praying for this over the next 3 weeks if you think about us.
Now on to the second half of this post title...we have finally settled on a name. Some of you may think we are crazy with the whole name specifics. Honestly we did not plan the whole 7 letter name thing when we named Katelyn and Bradley, it just turned out that way. So when we added Kennedi to the family, we figured we needed to keep the tradition going, and we can't stop with her. We had many suggestions of 7 letter B names for Zhong Yong but we kept going back to Brayden every time. Plus it sounds best with Yong. So his name will be Brayden Yong Salvador. Hope he likes it.
So with our homestudy done, the next step is to have everything certified by the state and then authenticated. We also apply to homeland security for the right to adopt internationally. This is all government stuff and so the timeframe for this part of the process is always up in the air and sometimes frustrating. Best estimate would be mid-March and then all this paperwork heads to China for their official approval. As long as we keep moving forward...it's all good. :)
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