USCIS fingerprinting DONE!!!!

Fingerprinting done!!!!!  Things could not have gone better today with fingerprinting.  This was the one step that had me the most anxious because it was going to require me to leave the daycare for few hours due to the lengthy drive.

 I was so blessed to be given an appointment on a week that two of my daycare kids were on vacation (one of which was the toddler who would not have liked me being gone AT ALL).  I also a nother at the doctors today so that only left one kid other thank my own two.

We received the first appointment of the day and had to leave the house at 6:45 so we were already at the USCIS office by the time my first daycare charge arrived.  We were in and out in 20 minutes (thank you Nancy for suggesting the Dover office) and home by 9:30.

It is also such a blessing that my niece Sarah is here for the summer who is already and approved substitute for my daycare and was able to come today.  With it being summer most of my substitutes have their own children home so I am so thankful Sarah could come spend the night to be here first thing.

HSTK!!!!!!!!! So Happy

July 13th, 2012

 Homestudy has gone to Korea!!!!!!!  That means we are officially waiting for our baby.  It will be a long wait for referral we are being told approximately 20 months but I'm sure totally worth it in the end.

 I am just now posting becuase we were on vacation last week when we got the news.  

It has been 6 months since our application went to our agency.  The wait to this point could have even been longer maybe not until August or September but we have been blessed that the agency in Korea has allowed us to be put in their que before our USCIS application has been approved due to our unique situation with our international students.

The boys were fingerprinted already in Korea on their summer break and Jeff and I have our appointment at the end of July.  After we are fingerprinted it could be a few more weeks of waiting for all that to be approved so we are truly blessed.  We were told that our situation is looked upon favorably since we have allowed these two Korean International students into our home so they are allowing us to send HSTK at this point while we wait for the boys fingerprints to arrive.

We found Pepper

I am beyond excited today that our little dog Pepper was found!!!!

Last night was really tough and I was starting to give up hope.  I knew with the upcoming 110 degree day that there was little chance Pepper would survive if he was out wandering.  We all had heavy hearts and went to bed all saying a prayer that Pepper was ok and someone nice had found him.

Carrot and I spent hours outside calling for him.  Walked in the 97 degree heat through the corn field and putting up lost dog signs and handing out flyers.

This morning I needed to take Banana to the express care for an ear infection and while in the waiting room I received a call and a nice woman on the other end said, "I think I found your dog"!!!!!  I was so excited and probably expressed my joy a little too loud in the waiting room.

I called my husband straight away and he went and picked Pepper up.  The nice woman found Pepper a few days ago and wasn't sure how to find his owner and when she went into the vet's office today with her own dog she saw the flyer and gave us a call.

We feel so thankful and blessed to have our little guy back.  Pepper is the proud owner a nice new shiny I.D. tag.

The other day Carrot had made at least 10 signs and hung them around the house that said "Lost dog and we luv hem" and today when I came home from the doctor I was greeted with this below instead :)

A sad end to our 4th of July

My fourth of July started off at the crack of dawn.  Why is it that on work days I could just sleep forever and on my days off I am naturally awake at 4:45....so frustrating.  I take an exercise class at 5:30a.m. three days per week and I was really looking forward to sleeping late but I was up, so i put my early rising to good use and made a festive cherry pie for our 4th of July cookout/Banana's birthday dinner.

It was a fun night visiting with our family and celebrating Banana's birthday but very hot.  We ended the night with sparklers and some firecrackers which is what brings us to the sad ending.  Our little Pepper boy was scared by the firecrackers and ran off and we have still not found him.  I looked and looked before bed.  I put a cushion on the deck in hope that he would come home during the night and just sleep there.  I have put flyers in all the mailboxes in our neighborhood, called the SPCA, notice in the newspaper and flyers in the local pizza shop....nothing.  We are starting to loose hope. 

WE MISS YOU PEPPER BOY! 

My 4th of July baby

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USCIS fingerprint appointments

USCIS fingerprint appointments came in the mail today!!!!!!!   They are really good times for the daycare schedule too.  We have the first appointment of the day so they said we will be in and out in 15-20 minutes.  I will not need to have a substitute here for that long.  Moving right along.

New Playroom

Playroom before

Playroom after

New shelf for all the toys and books

 Book nook with carrot not allowing a picture :(

Painted the built-in bookshelf white instead of cream...oh my too much work

Fell in love with these ABC cards