How long did it take for you?

In my area you have to do your training first and then home study, and then licensing. You can do your background checks while doing the training (b/c we have to pay for those).So we started 10/1/2009, our license was granted on 4/23/10. We had about a month lag in there when we were not pushing things to get done because our DS had surgery (our HS was being written, and usually it's only 2 weeks and it was about 5 for us).