A little more about us

First of all do not call the embassy in Ethiopia. You will just pay a $1 a minute to hear really bad elevator music. I did however locate an email address that goes to the right person at the embassy and that email is ConsAdoptionAddis@state.gov Our paper work is at the embassy and all is well on that front.

Scott and I have been married for 10 years, but together for almost 17 years. How old are we you may ask? We are 34 and 32 respectively. I was 15 years old when Scott wrote me a very sweet note telling me how he liked this girl with red hair. Well, I was the girl with red hair. We have been together ever since even though we went to colleges thousands of miles apart. We started our married life living in New York City and it was great.... We still believe NYC is the greatest City ever. After NYC we moved to Fort Collins Colorado and ended (for now) in Austin Texas. Through all these moves have been our kids with fur. We are crazy crazy crazy about our dogs and everyone else's dogs. Mostly we have and have had (some of our kids have passed) Cocker Spaniels. There is just something about the Cocker Spaniel we love.

Our adoption journey started about two years ago. We started down the road of adoption hoping to end in China. After realizing this could take 4 years we started looking into other options. We had a hard time exploring an adoption from another country because of our strong bond to our China adoption. I didn't start researching other countries until the summer of 2007. Scott was extremely apprehensive and felt very uneasy about international adoption in general (after being told our baby from China would be in our arms in 10 months NOT four years). We found the Bottomly's blog (Ethiopia or bust) and read their entire blog. We felt an adoption through Ethiopia could be right for us.
After a lot of research into agencies we found the one right for us, International Adoption Net(IAN). We wanted a smaller agency this time around. One morning I called IAN to inquire some more about the Ethiopia program and they said there was a baby girl IAN was fostering. We saw her picture and knew she was our daughter. We have our 3rd court date April5. We are sure three times is a charm.

~Leah and Scott Reeves~