It's officially Day 1

We just got a call from the domestic networking coordinator from our agency - we have been sent out to two agencies and are officially waiting! We still haven't received the last piece of mail that we were expecting from her, so she was calling to say that she hadn't sent it to us yet, but that it wasn't slowing us down. So, now we officially wait to be matched.

Holiday

During October each year, Ryan and I always go to the Burgess Christmas tree farm and tag our tree (so we don't have to when it is really cold). Ryan is standing with the tree I first liked and I am with the tree we eventually tagged. We are only planning to use the top 9 feet of the tree or so (we use the rest of the tree for decoration). We will cut the tree probably near the end of November. See the new Burgess Tree Farm website: http://www.burgesstreefarm.com/












In adoption news, we have been (somewhat impatiently) waiting for the last few weeks or so to receive another piece of paperwork from the agency so that our profiles can actually be shown to other agencies and families. Our home study has been approved, our home certification is complete and profiles were mailed to the agency a few weeks ago. I was finally able to talk with the person at the agency that will be sending out the paperwork, and she said that we should receive the paperwork either today or Monday, but that either way, our profiles will be sent out on Monday or Tuesday. That means, by Thanksgiving, we should be officially "waiting". I have been really anxious to get to this point as it seems to be the last leg to being picked. We will keep you posted!





Meanwhile, we have some friends very close to traveling to India to pick up their son, and it has been so fun to watch as they go through the process. We are keeping our fingers crossed that the passport process in India goes smoothly!

November 5

This weekend Kate and I went to Reny's and found a nice hunting scarf for Brinks. He doesn't seem to mind or notice that he is wearing it.

No news on the adoption front - we are waiting to receive a letter back from the agency with some paperwork for us to complete. We are getting anxious to start the waiting process!