Ryan and Nathan Got Married

Yesterday our friends Ryan and Nathan got married. It was a beautiful wedding. Congrats!

Filed I 600A and Fingerprints

Today we went downtown to file our I600A form. I had an appointment at 1:00pm with infopass and all went well and quick. So after that we headed down to the basement for fingerprints. Here is fingerprint area.

Once we got down there the man informed us that our appointment upstairs did not give us an appointment down there (ugh!) so we would just have to wait and hope he can fit us it between the people who had appointments. He would not give us a time frame (a few minutes to 3 hours!!!) So we waited....
Here we are waiting..... all in all it was just about a 45min wait. YAY!

Homestudy!

Today, 5/26/2008, Brian and I had our first homestudy visit. Meredith, our case worker was great! She was really sweet! We were both nervous but didn't need to be. We met at Barnes & Nobles (we were late because we were sitting and waiting in Borders....opps!). She is coming to our house June 1st for the "HOME" study part. I saw BABY geese on the way....a sign??? I think so!!!! Picture of Barnes and Noble Sign.... I want everything documented lol!!!!

Whats New

So I thought I would update you all on our life. We meet with our social worker from Adoption Assistance tomorrow for the first time. I am so nervous, what do we wear? What do we say? Will she like us? So many thoughts going through my head right now. I am not really sure what goes on at our first meeting. Also, I got to get a hcg shot this month and it looks as if my medicine worked this month for the first time, however that doesn't by any means garuntee that we will get pregnant this time, but it gives a glimmer of hope! Also.... we are still waiting for the house we want to get listed (it should be really soon now). I can see us next summer in that house with some little ones... that would be great! We have been spending a lot of our free time with our neighborhood kids. We just love those kids! We have a few favorites and Brian loves playing cornhole with the boys as I play with Mercedes and little Mia. I will miss those little ones so much whenever we do move :(

So much paper work!!!!

Today I started the paper work for our adoption from Ethiopia. We meet with our home study social worker for the first time next Tuesday. Today I got a bunch accomplished... I ordered cedrtified birth certificates for us both, ordered our marriage license (because we lost ours), sent off our background checks to the police, went to the bank to get a letter, mailed child abuse and neglect check, filled out finance forms, got a copy of water bill, sent info to our CPA so he can write a letter, worked on getting our references together and a few other things. Now we need to get Brian's address changed on his drivers license to match what it really is. We also need to go to the doctor and get checked out to fill out a form. So much to do, but it is kind of fun.

Also, Wednesday I go to the doctor to see if my Clomid is fixing my ovaries and will maybe work this month so we can get pregnant. I am excited about that too.

No house news as of yet....we will see I guess.

Lacy Graduated!

Yesterday my sister-in-law, Lacy, graduated highschool from Academy of Individual of Excellence. We are so proud of you Lacy!!!!

Lacy and our neice Kelsy.
The whole family.

Getting that diploma!!!!!

Happy 22nd Birthday!

Today was my 22nd birthday. I woke up to cinamon rolls from my husband and then opened presents from him, which was the good hairspray I was out of and diamond hoop earrings. We then met my mom for lunch at Mark's Feed Store and went to the mall to pick up my cookie cake. We took Mercedes for a walk and hung out with the neighborhood kids for a few hours coloring and playing cornhole. I love those kids. Then we met my whole family and Brad for dinner at Shogun Japenese Steakhouse....yummy! Our guy wasn't very entertaining tonight though :( Oh well we had a good time! I got lots of great presents (money for our baby fund, laptop case, cute purse/bag, Ethiopian adoption book, and gift card) and had a great day! Thanks everyone!