Happy Earth Day

Here's to Earth Day!

This was on my 30 Rock calendar today. And, yes I do feel that way about styrofoam.

Cutest

I'm hoping my sister-in-law doesn't mind me posting these, but they are just so darn cute. It's my youngest brother and his family. He and his wife just celebrated 10 years of marriage on the 15th!
I think my uncle took both pictures, but my sister-in-law could have taken the one of just my niece. Is she not the cutest!! We have some amazing photographer's in our family!

Good News

Before heading off on our anniversary weekend we stopped by the post office and mailed our Dossier to the adoption agency!! We are that much closer to finding & getting our child(ren)!!!
Thanks for all the prayers! Continue praying that all the paperwork would come together quickly and that the Ethiopian Government approves us soon!

Our anniversary

Happy Eleven Years (April 17th, I'm a couple days late). Here's a few photos of our weekend staying in downtown Tacoma.

funnies

This is thanks to Stacy (co-worker) who brought this in to work today. Thought it was super funny! I love Dilbert!

homestudy

We had our homestudy today! I think it went well or at least at the end she didn't say, "there's no way you'll be able to raise a child!" We have one more decision to make, but then our homestudy will be complete.

Next week we need to get a pile of papers notarized and then we'll be REALLY close to getting our Dossier finished and mailed back to Adoption Advocates! We are waiting to get our notarized letter from the Tacoma Police stating we don't have criminal backgrounds! Think that'll come on Monday or Tuesday.

Once the Dossier is complete it is sent off to the Ethiopian government for approval. Once we get approval the agency can officially start looking for a child for us! That is when the real waiting begins.

Easter Eggs

We spent part of the evening dying Easter Eggs with some friends. I haven't done this since I was a kid, actually I don't think any of us had done it since we were kids. It was like riding a bike! Here's a few pictures, you'll be able to guess the ones Waymond did (self portrait). We tried hollowing out the eggs, but that was WAY to hard. We broke a few and decided boiled eggs were the way to go. We stole some of Martha Stewart's ideas and used stickers to cover parts of the eggs and we also used my mom's trick of coloring parts of the eggs with a white crayon.