An Alabama family caught up in the turmoil in Ukraine as it adopted four children there has finally been reunited in the United States, reports WGCL, the CBS station in Atlanta.
Lisa
Bundy and the last of the children to get approval to leave the
country, Nastia, returned to the United States on Friday. After three
weeks apart, the family met at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta
International Airport.
"It is really great to get all of us
together," said her husband, David, a photographer. "I can't express how
happy I am now. I don't think it hit me yet."
The couple, of
Montgomery, decided a year ago that they wanted to adopt the children,
Nastia, Karina, Max and Alla. When they arrived in Kiev in November,
they were not overly concerned by the protests in Independence Square, a
half a mile from where they were staying.
But
as situation grew violent, the newly formed family of six hunkered down
inside their small apartment waiting for the paperwork to go through,
Mike Paluska of WGCL reports.
"You could hear everything, the
bombs, the Molotov cocktails, the gun fire," Lisa Bundy said. "We went
out one time, and apparently there were snipers and we didn't know it
until we got back to the apartment."
The
family got the final documents approved for Karina, Max and Alla, all
siblings, on Feb. 23. Lisa Bundy remained with Nastia when the others
departed until the last child could leave too.
"With the
things going on politically in Ukraine, now with Crimea and with Russia
it is very worrisome, David Bundy said. "I didn't know if the
government was going to be disrupted to the point where we wouldn't get
the things we needed to get done to complete the adoption."
Said Lisa Bundy: "God bless America. I am happy to be a mom, finally."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-adopts-four-children-amidst-upheaval-in-ukraine/
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