Father's Day 2011

This Father's Day weekend we spent at my bosses lake house at Lake Eufaula. It was a nice, relaxing time with the kids (and Penny of course). It's about 2 hours away, and Penny was the perfect passenger!

Once we arrived we took the golf cart out in search of the "beachy" area by the house... after off-roading it a bit, we found it.
Laynie and I hung out Saturday at the "beach" while the boys were at Blake's last baseball tournament.

Yip.... in a small lake town you will find old men at the Dollar General with an arm cast made of DUCK TAPE! Not even kidding!
The kids enjoying a ride on the golf cart.
Mmmmmm, some of the best french toast I have ever had!

Spent time just sitting on the dock.
We really enjoyed the weekend and were grateful to my boss for opening up his house to us! It was good to get away from everything and not think about anything!!

I took more pictures with my camera, these were just from my phone....so I'll post those another time.

:)

Dossier : part duex

Ok, so this is the second time around with overnighting a dossier off...but still as exciting as the first time!!!!!

I finished up everything that I can now (other documents that have to be included are more "child specific" so they will come later) for our Congo dossier, so I am sending it via Fed Ex today!!!

It feels so good to have this done and to be able to write this check to accompany it. I am not going to freak out that that's pretty much it for our savings account now. Nope. Not going to FREAK OUT! FREAKKKKK OUUUUTTT!

whoops...i freaked out a little.

Ok, i'm good.

So now we just wait for our updated CIS approval letter to come back. Once that's submitted to One World, we just continue to wait to receive our referral.

I wont lie, I wish there was a chance that my phone could ring at any moment, but that's not going to happen.
Thank goodness we are keeping busy this summer! Keeps my mind off of things! sort of.

This weekend we are headed to my bosses lake house. Blake has another baseball tournament and it's in a city that's close to the lake, so we will be chill'in at the lake between games..yay!!

My Mom and little brother (who is home from Iraq..woot.woot.) will be here on Sunday.

lots to do and so happy about it. Keeps my mind occupied!

Oh and not to outdo myself as a surgery addict...but I have a hernia! One that can't be ignored and needs to be repaired. Not sure exactly when...but I don't blame anyone for thinking I'm addicted to the general anesthesia or something. HA (of course I'm totally kidding).
This will be 3 surgeries in 1 year and 2 months.
*sigh*

Weekend In Pictures

Another full weekend at the Ellis house!

Penny got her hair cut.....
And smuggled some socks (she's CRAZY about socks) into my bed....

Blake had another baseball tournament in Stillwater.... It was SUPER HOT!!

Made a birthday gift for our sweet neighbor/friend Grace...

And the rest of the time was filled with laundry, cleaning, sewing...and oh, yea..sleeping.

My Mom and "little" brother are coming up this weekend to see my Grandma, who was just recently transported to a nursing home/care center. They say she will never talk again. Makes my heart sad because she LOVED to talk! ;)
So another busy weekend ahead.

On the adoption front:
We are just waiting for our updated i600a approval letter to come back. I have everything else that I can possibly have ready for our dossier...the rest will come when we receive our referral(s).
So for now, it's more of the waiting game. We were told 6-9 months.

Amazing!