Today is the day!!

After nearly 2 years....our Dossier is heading to China today!! Yahoo!!!

Dossier COMPLETE

Wow...what a day yesterday was! We FINALLY received our paperwork back from the DC Chinese Consulate with the final authentication stamps before everything can head to China in the form a of our dossier! Of course there was a hiccup along the way...but Todd stepped up and really showed me what a wonderful Father he will be to our baby girl. I think I fell in love all over again....

So, last night, we packaged everything up and make 2 photocopies of all that paperwork and got it in the last Fed Ex pick up to head to TX to our agency for review and submission to CHINA! I can't believe this day finally arrived. We started the paperchase pn December 17, 2008. There were some reasons it took us so long...that I will discuss one day, but mostly it was our agency we used for the home study. (Slow as a snail) But now, we are hopeful for Friday. Dossiers leave our agency and go to China every Friday. I really hope there aren't any errors and we make it this week. That would be the best gift to us ever right now.

Keep posted...next up....LID!! YAY!!

We are headed to Charleston this weekend for our God-daughter's baptism and to celebrate our Best Friends Birthday....what a fun weekend to one of our favorite places. : )

Adoption Update and more

Today we sent all our paperwork off to the necessary Chinese Consulates. What a relief! They say the turn around time is 4 days, and don't you know I included an overnight Fed-Ex envelope for each consulate to mail back to us! Ha! Once these papers return back to us, we can submit everything to our agency in TX to be reviewed, translated and then it will be submitted to China. We are SOOOO close to receiving a Log In date, I just can't stand it!! This weekend we are going to sit down and try to decide on some lifestyle shots to send with all our paperwork.

Work has been AWFUL recently. We are so busy and there just doesn't seem to be any relief coming soon. Thankfully my boss did let us all leave at 4pm, and they are going to look for a temp to help me out in the lab for 8-12 weeks...what a great plan!

Tomorrow, I am going to enjoy an hour massage that my wonderful hubby got me for our Anniversary last weekend. I am going to LOVE every minute of it.

Have a great weekend!! The weather here is beautiful...I can't wait to get some pumpkins and mums to decorate outside. : )

Happy Birthday to ME!

Husby bought me a K*ndle and I am one happy Lady tonight curled up in my PJs while all the new tv shows are on. The dogs are sleeping, laundry is done, clothes are unpacked from our trip to Georgetown for a beautiful wedding....and a nice dinner was had after a really sh*tty day at work. Yes, they chose today to tell me I didn't get an internal position I applied for. But you know what, who cares...because I have a K*ndle....at last!!

SHOW US YOUR LIFE---LIVING ROOMS

This week over at Kelly's Korner, Kelly is hosting Show Us Your Life-Living Rooms. I participated last year, and it was a lot of fun. This year, I have some new items in my rooms...and still have some pending....Enjoy!

This is our formal living room at the front of the house. I HATE this furniture!! I just recently made the curtains to go in this room, which has helped a little bit...

I'd really like to add some pictures on this wall between the windows...I think it will be a small collage of some adoption lifestyle shots we had taken at a local park with gold frames.

The family room at the back of the house...I am going to order some frames from PB soon to make a collage on this wall above the sofa also. There are some really great burlap matte frames that I know would be perfect!

This is our Loft area above the garage. The plats inthe frames are projects that Todd has developed over the years.

View of the loft facing the stair case. We have the fooseball table and it never gets used, but we like how it looks in here.

View from the stairs facing into the Loft. This will one day become the playroom since it is upstairs and hidden from the entry of the house.

Hope you have enjoyed the tour! Come back again next week!!

Hope

The Vintage Pearl is helping bring babies home!! Check out the blog and website for more details...I received my necklace in the mail yesterday and am in LOVE with it.

Day 4

Day4-Favorite Book

I am part of a Book Club that I started last year...we haven't read this book, however this is one of my favorites that I have read in a long time. Check it out, you will enjoy it!