We Are Getting Fingerprinted!

Hi All,

I saw this picture online last week and thought it was super cute and had to share. You all know how I love dogs. If only I could get Rosie to do this.

We had a very busy weekend with our nieces Courtney and Lauren. We took pictures but Kyle has not uploaded them yet so I'll post at a later date. On Friday night we had dinner at one of our favorite Thai places. I was disappointed b/c the Pad Thai was really off. Every once and awhile the taste of it is off and it was also too soupy! Of course this lead to me decide that we had to have dessert. We hardly ever order dessert but I've always wanted to try the fried ice cream there. BTW, we go to this Thai place on a regular basis. The fried ice cream was yummo!! Of course I had to find a picture online in case anyone hasn't had fried ice cream. Ours looked pretty similar except it had chocolate sauce instead.

On Saturday, Kyle left home early to go to a home show in Providence, RI with our brother-in-law Jay. I spent the day with the girls. We went and saw the movie College Road Trip, see link below. http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/collegeroadtrip/ It was actually a really cute movie. Kyle met us for dinner @ Not Your Average Joe's, http://www.notyouraveragejoes.com/. Since it was Courtney's b-day weekend she got to pick where we ate. Lauren really wanted us to go to this Japanese steak house that she recently went to for a b-day party but since it was Courtney's b-day, she won. So, we promised Lauren we would do a birthday weekend for her & go to the Japanese place. I'm psyched b/c I've always wanted to go to a Japanese Steakhouse. Boy do the kids keep us busy.

My sister-in-law, Nicole (Courtney's mom) joined us with her four other kids at the restaurant. After dinner, we drove back to the condo and watched Princess Diaries Two. It was a really cute movie. The girls were very giddy during the movie due to huge amounts of candy consumption. However, they were really good and went to bed without hesitation. I have a spare wheelchair and they just want to play in it all the time! It is funny how my old dumpy wheelchair can entertain them so easily!

The next morning we were awaken by the girls. Apparently, the batteries had died during the night to the Carbon monoxide detector and it was giving the beep signal that the batteries needed replacing. Kyle pulled them out and we got up and had pancakes for breakfast, chocolate chip pancakes for the girls and blueberries for us. We then met up with my mom and all went to church. After church we drove to the mall to get a coffee drink that the girls had tried on Saturday-decaf for the kids of course! We then dropped off the girls and went home and took a nap. That night was kind of a let down. It was very quiet again. I did make a pretty good dinner for us though (bllackened salmon, wild rice and broccoli.) I've been trying to eat more salmon b/c it is so good for you but it definitely is not one of my favorite fishes.

Ok, so... on to getting fingerprinted. We got notification by mail last Friday that we have an appointment at the INS-immigration & naturalization services, to get fingerprinted. This is part of the I-600A process which allows us to adopt a foreign born infant. We were surprised that the INS contacted us so quickly because we just sent our application in a few weeks ago. So, things are progressing on the adoption front. We should receive our passports in a few weeks and we just finished an adoption training guide and 19 homework assignments that went with it.

There has been a lot of issues going on in Vietnam and there is a chance that the county could stop adoptions if things don't change. Evidently there have been cases when birth parents have been forced into giving up their children under false pretenses i.e. they will eventually get them back. Unless Vietnam gets this issues settled there is talk that Vietnam could close this September. We've been assured that if all our information in processed by then than we should be ok. I really hope that we can have everything completed by then. Please keep us in your prayers b/c if Vietnam closes we are pretty much up a creek without a paddle. At the same time, we don't want it to stay open if corruption is going on, so it is a hard situation. We have to just hope and pray that it will all work out. For more info on what is going on with adoptions in Vietnam check out the link below from our adoption agency:

http://www.vorf.org/?tab=2&page=4&id=28