Busy bees

This truly awful picture of me was taken at an amusement park this weekend. Eliana had a great time. Unfortunately this was not documented photographically as the camera died right after Matt took this picture.


Eliana looking beautiful for our dossier photo shoot


Future photographer?



Playing with Craig....


... taking Mary for a wlk. Look at that little belly!


This pic was from the get together we had with some of other families in the area that have kids from Guatemala. We are trying to all get together once a month. It's so much fun to see the kids together! This little outfit E has on is one that we brought home from Guat.

There's been a lot going on around here!
We've had a bunch of fun stuff going on, hanging out with lots of friends this past week. Eliana loves it - she loves going out and about, seeing other people.
We've also been wrapping up our paperwork stuff. Today we sent away all of our homework for the homestudy (it's supposed to be an update but we really re-did almost everything), we mailed out our I-600 application (requesting permission to adopt from the gov't) and we sent away the one document we need to have authenticated. We have 1 paper to write up ( a letter of intent about why we want to adopt 2 kids from Ethiopia) and then we will be finished with the dossier! I'm going to do the letter tonight, so after tomorrow we will just be sitting around waiting to get stuff back from the HS agency and the government. Wish us luck (in the form of speedy accurate responses)!

We're still getting ready for the yard sale - it's in less than 2 weeks!

Time to put this baby girl to bed. She's started 'reading' to herself today. She opens books and slowly turns each page while talking in a low voice to herself. She's a genius, what can I say!?