To celebrate National Adoption Month, Adoption ARK held a contest. Parents were invited to send in their pictures of the first moments with their adopted child. Adoption ARK compiled all of the pictures and created a video entitled “First Moments”.

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This is part two of our adventure. After adopting our son from Russia, we went back a year later and adopted his biological sister. They were raised in seperate orphanages and had never met until we brought her home.

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International Adoption has always been a complicated matter, but lately, it’s gotten even moreso.

The Family Matters team has assembled some links for prospective parents to use, so this kind of thing doesn’t happen to them.

JCICS
http://www.jcics.org

Adoption Institute
http://Adoptioninstitute.org/index.php

Parent’s Support Group
http://www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=1311

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Jen and Mike’s Russia Adoption Trip One
Come join us on our journey to adoption:
http://threesons.clubmom.com/

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Share with us the special moment when we met our two daughters in Ivanovo, Russia.
We also have a second trip video to check out when we got to go pick up our girls! http://smilesandtrials.blogspot.com/

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Share with us the special moment when we met our two daughters in Ivanovo, Russia.
We also have a second trip video to check out when we got to go pick up our girls! http://smilesandtrials.blogspot.com/

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Join us on our journey back to Russia to bring home Sveta and Anna.
Don’t forget to check out our first trip video too!
http://smilesandtrials.blogspot.com/

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Join us on our journey back to Russia to bring home Sveta and Anna.
Don’t forget to check out our first trip video too!
http://smilesandtrials.blogspot.com/

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We travel to Far Eastern Russia to adopt a little boy…but learn he has an older sister. So we return to bring them both home. Ongoing stories can be found in my BLOG at http://www.Adoptioncoach.wordpress.com .

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Mike and Jen’s Russia Adoption Video Trip Two Short Version

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