The joys of paperwork...
USCIS lost our paperwork. Yep, lost it. However, they did acknowledge they received it...our saving grace. So instead of renewing and moving forward back in January we now sit on the brink of April and still are not any farther then we were a year ago. Every night we pray for our children and Ava's siblings please join us in that prayer.

Still here...

So I admit it I have been awful at blogging. Things on the adoption front are pretty much where they were 6 months ago. We are waiting for a response from Colombia as well as our appointment card to renew our fingerprints for the USCIS. Hit some roadblocks along the way but we have faith that everything will work out.

Exciting news is that we had a beautiful baby girl Ava Makinley on August 25th. She weighed 9lbs 2 oz. I was induced at 7am on August 24th and 26 hours later Ava entered this world. She is amazing and so much fun. She is now rolling over, eating cereal, and has developed a fake scream and grunting "push" noise. She thinks she is funny and loves to be tickled.

Another update...not much new

Since my last post not much new has happened. We are working on information for ICBF so not much going on in the adoption world. As far as pregnancy goes I am now 26 wks. Everything is going so well and I feel so blessed. She weighs almost 2 lbs now. This summer is going to be crazy getting ready for the baby plus lots of weddings and showers. I am so excited!

Update...as promised

I have been receiving harassing messages regarding my lack of postings. Sorry! Good news is our baby is growing on track. Our due date is August 25. We had an ultrasound today and were hoping to find out gender but our child is stubborn already. No luck. Hopefully the baby will cooperate next month. We received an email today from our international agency stating that Colombia has requested some more info from our psychologist who did our evaluation. They said it is becoming more standard but still a pain. They want more info on motivation to adopt and our parenting patterns. I started my new job with Early Head Start and I love it. Leaving LSS was a huge blessing in disguise. My coworkers are amazing and the kids are awesome. I miss my other families but this job is going to be wonderful! That's all that is new! Hope everyone is doing well!

Paperwork submitted to Colombia

We found out yesterday our paperwork was sent to the representative in Colombia on December 17th. Based on the timeline our agency has our wait can be between 23-38 months. Let's pray around 23 months! Blessings to everyone this Christmas!

Slight Addiction

Well...the finale of DWTS was on tonight. I must admit I have a slight addiction to this show. I am going to be quite sad and unsure what to do with my time once it is over tomorrow night. Good thing for ebay. Thanks Kari for getting me hooked on this. Chris thinks I need to learn how to sell not just shop. Who would have thought I can still find my snowman dishes on there! I am very excited! Yes, I have dishes for every season another slight addiction.

As Thanksgiving approaches we want to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers on our adoption process. We are open to adopting a child 3 or under so it is crazy to think our child may already be born. Until the day we finally meet and know your name we continue to blow kisses into the wind; may they comfort and protect you.

Road Block

Well, the past month I thought our paperwork was in Colombia. I guess I was wrong. Our agency does authentications for us so I thought that was done and our paperwork was mailed but it wasn't. I guess 2 of our documents something was wrong with the notary so we have to redo them, then send them to Pierre, and then hopefully everything is done. Not a huge deal but I was hoping our wait to begin waiting was almost done. The joys :)

Since no one could tell what the dog's costumes were I will tell you. Buster is the piggy and Baxter is a skunk. Baxter chases the tail around it is so cute.