Dossier is off to China!

Finally got word today from our agency that our dossier with all our paperwork is FINALLY off to China! Now China logs it in looks at it, waits a while and eventually tells us to come and get Amy. :-) Horray. Now we wait some more.

expecting snow here tomorrow. Always exciting for people from the deep south. :-)

Ice storm aftermath

I can't tell you how sad everything still looks around here because of the ice storm about a month ago. I actually get confused taking the girls to Mother's Day out because all the trees are down and piled up by the road. The streets don't look anything like they used to. Spring won't be as glorious as it was last year either. FEMA is touring our town today so hopefully a lot of the debris will be cleaned up soon.

Happy Anniversary

Yesterday was our 12th anniversary. Before kids we would do dinner and a show for our anniversary. We'd find a dinner theater or a broadway show to go to. Now we do dinner and a movie. :-) Went to a matinee showing of National Treasure (loved it) and then dinner at Cracker Barrel. Went and picked up the girls and we were all home before 9pm. hehe. We know how to party. It still wiped me out and I was exhausted by the time I got home.
Love you Brent, 12 years, how time flies!

Christmas

Brent got a remote controlled Helicopter for Christmas. It's so small you can fly it in the house, and we had a lot of fun with it when the girls went down for their nap on Christmas. Rocky found it a little threatening and kept a close eye on it, especially after it attacked him and got stuck in his beard.

Merry Christmas

Hope everyone has a wonderful, fun Christmas.

snow

We got just a little snow today. It was enough for Brent and the girls to play in and for Karianne to drop down and make snow angels. She made snow angels everywhere and Angie enjoyed sitting down and just throwing snow. We had expected a lot more, but at least we got some. :-)

Ice storm part 2

We are home now, the power is on and we're awaiting our next big storm, we are supposed to get a lot of snow tonight!
We went without power for several days and we left town on Wednesday and went to Branson for a mini vacation that we had actually planned for months now, it just happened to be a really good time to get out of town! It was very nice to get away from the mess and destruction for a while. All the trees around here are either damaged or down, it is so sad. A lot of Tulsa still does not have power, but we do and we were very greatful to return home to power.
We had a nice time in Branson. No snow or ice, still pretty cold though. We did go to one show that was a variety show with magic and a ventriloquist. The girls did very well sitting through it and seemed to enjoy it. They loved the "puppets" and the magic act had a lot of birds, Karianne said she liked the birds that man "made". We actually talked to the stars of the show quite a bit after the show when they came out to shake hands and sign autographs. They wanted to hear all about our adoption of Angie and Amy and I think we sparked a fire of interest and they are going to look into adopting. It was actually the second time yesterday that someone really wanted to talk to us at length about adopting. It is strange to me that we are advocating for adoption just by "being" our family. We don't have to introduce the topic, people are so interested or just curious they approach us and ask us about our family. There's a parallel to Christianity there somewhere...
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Hope to finally get our dossier off to China by the end of the year.

Ice Storm

We are in the middle of it. We have been getting hit with freezing rain for 3 days now, with at least another day to go. We haven't had power since saturday, but thank God we have running water and a fireplace. We've been camping out near the fireplace and have stayed comfortable, just very bored. :-)
We are at our church right now just to get some news and an internet connection. Apparently this is the only church in our area right now with power so it is opening as a red cross shelter.
Just thought we'd let you know we're safe, thanks for your prayers.

Visit to the State Capitol

Today we went to Oklahoma City to get the documents authenticated for Amy's adoption. We went the the State Capitol Building. It happened to be the same day that they were having their official holiday lighting ceremony and children were invited from all over to come decorate trees in the Capitol. It was VERY crowded inside.

More good news today, we found out we got a grant from Shaohannah's Hope!! What a blessing. We are so excited. It will pay off a large portion of what we still need to raise for the adoption. GOD IS GOOD!

Christmas Cookies

Tonight we made Christmas cookies. Notice the cookie in the corner loaded with M&Ms. That's Angie's cookie, she patiently loaded all the M&M's that she could onto that one cookie. Lot's of fun, big mess. :-)