China Adoption - where we are (sigh)

We get an update as to the status of our adoption "dossier" about once every month. As of right now, sadly we still have about 16 months to go before receiving a referral, which would be July of 2010. This is a couple of months further than what we had been anticipating - we had thought May. And since you usually don't travel until a month or so after that. This may mean we wouldn't travel until August, which would be a horrible time with Sharon and Nathan needing to start a new school year. Things could change, but the wait has been getting gradually longer and not shorter for over a year now. When we started, the wait was supposed to only be 18 months. It is now 37 months. This is somewhat sad news for us, but it does give us more time to save money and make other preparations.

Snow 2009 Pics

I was negligent and forgot about posting pictures here from last week's 4 inch snow here. We had a great time, and this really was the first snow big enough for the little guy to truly get out and enjoy. We built a very nice snowman (named "Lance Vance" by our son.) Sadly, our yard is so small now, it took almost all of the snow in the back yard to assemble him. Sharon made snow cream too. It was a really great couple of days.

Chris got a gun.

I knew that title might get your attention. Actually, I did get a gun, but a toy one, specifically a Generation 1 Transformers (circa 1983) Megatron. A family member gave us a tip that one had been sighted at a comic book store in Salisbury for a great price. Those of you who just know him from the recent movie may not realize his original alternate form was a handgun. His robot mode is actually VERY goofy looking. Anyway, there's no danger of me hurting anyone with this guy. I'm actually bidding on his accessories on eBay now.

Begging Peepers

No, you can't have a bite, Pee.

Block Party

The little guy returned from a weekend at Memaw and Pepaw's, so to celebrate we had a "block party."

ServePro at Work

We arrived at church this morning to find the choir room and downstairs hall flooded with a few inches of water. The culprit seems to be a clogged up drainage pipe of some sort. ServePro was called in to begin the work of drying things out. The choir went without robes this morning and we rehearsed in the Sanctuary. My office also got soaked, as it's right across the hall. The Music Library also got hit, and had the water been a few inches higher, I would have had a lot of damged music. It's probably going to take several days to get everthing dried out (and now we've got snow on top of all the rain). Still, I feel very fortunate that at this point is does not appear any major equipment was damaged.

The Man Room - completed (almost)

Hi!

This week I was able to put the finishing touches on the collector shelves in "the man room" - aka the bonus room, multipurpose room, room above the grarge, etc... The only thing left to do in this area is paint the side walls, which will probably be a cream color. And as you can see, here are my "toys," some of which have been in storage until recently. I've still got a bit or organizing to do with them, but it's nice to have them on display.

Hey wait - How's Sharon get in that one picture!!! Isn't this supposed to be the MAN ROOM?