It's a girl!

No we didn't get a referral yet... We are patiently waiting for that... or as patiently as you can wait. However, my sister had her baby this week and she is oh so cute!



We had another visitor last night and the dogs went crazy. I wasn't sure what was outside, but with them barking so much I had to go see. They were barking at the trees behind our house so I wasn't AS worried b/c they are ALWAYS treeing something. It cracked me up when I shined my flashlight in the tree and saw this little guy... I was expecting a squirrel. I haven't seen too many opossums in my life and when I first saw him he was standing on a branch with his big gut hanging over his feet. I had to take a picture. He moved by the time I got back but I still like the picture!

It feels like it has been forever since I have had a chance to get on the computer. The good thing about Ike is school was cancelled Thurs. and Friday. I thought I would get caught up on everything but I ended up getting a bug that has been being passed around the schools and have been sick the past two days. Luckily tonight I feel MUCH better and decided it was time to post!

It has been crazy here the past few weeks. Snake slaying, alternators going out, a new baby, hurricanes, turn signals and air bags going out, two doors on our house breaking, school staring, just to name a few. David’s been working like crazy and so have I. Gearing up for the start of school I found myself working extra long hours. It has started to slow down but this has been the busiest year for kids enrolling and withdrawing.

About the snake slaying: while I was at school David e-mailed me with a lovely picture of a huge snake, then tells me it is in our covered patio and asks what I would like done with it... Ah, just let it in the house and let it make itself comfortable (sarcasm) You can imagine my reply. So after much dilemma over what to kill it with he took care of the snake!

We also have had our share of things going out or breaking. On his way to work David's alternator went out. Luckily he was right by Wal-Mart and was able to go in and get a battery at 4 AM. He got to work and then was able to get somewhere to get the alternator taken care of. Last week we must have had a big change in weather b/c two of our wood doors ended up breaking. The house we bought was a previous rental house and was a MESS when we moved in so they weren't in that great of shape to begin with. However one door was in such sorry shape when my husband went to remove the lock, it fell right into his hand! We now have steel doors! It’s amazing how much better they look! Our PT also had some work done a few weeks ago and the airbag and the turn signal ended up malfunctioning. It was great to be driving in bumper to bumper traffic and have the airbag signal go off every few seconds! ;). I think the alerts on that vehicle are the loudest I have ever heard! We got it fixed RIGHT away!

It's great to be on the waitlist. I find myself getting discouraged at times but also feel butterflies of excitement and hope that we get ours right away. I have my hopes up for sometime in October. The sooner the better and I hope not any later! Someone at church was joking with me and asking how it felt to be overdue (we've been waiting more than 10 months total). I thought their remark was clever. We have had SEVERAL really sweet people say that they would pray the wait goes fast and several more who found out we are adopting and have excitedly talked to us about adoption. It has made things a lot better. I am ready to meet our baby!!!!

I did buy some fabric a few weekends ago and made a valance for if we are referred a boy. The boy room is puppies and I found fabric that matched the stuff we already had so I was pretty psyched! I stayed up late one night watching the Olympics and making a valance. It was a pretty rough night (sarcasm)! I also found some fabric and I am going to make a blanket that looks like the Ethiopian flag and the other side has a map of Africa.