Home Stretch..well paperwork wise

Wow I can't believe it I was actually home to SIGN for my mail.. no trip to the post office this week! We got our copy of our home-study yesterday and it's all notarized.. it just needs the certified and authentication stuff. We will be holding off on that and wait for our I-171H to show up. yes lucky us we are now waiting on good 'ol Uncle Sam. As soon as the US Government sends us our 171 thingy then we are going to drive up to Tallahassee to get our stuff certified and then mail these last two documents to the Houston Consulate. By driving up we'll knock off a week or two in waiting time. Plus my folks are dying to have us come visit.. they only live an hour north of Tallahassee...
So that's where we are at. I did buy.. yes I know.. another stuffed animal for her last week! SO cute a baby Eeyore with a little blanket! soo cute! And a shirt for me! David got this cool book over at the American Adventure shop on important and influential speeches in American History.. Some neat stuff in it! Good bathroom book! tee hee. I did mention last post that we were gonna take a Friday off to see the Bucs and go to EPCOT.. WELLLL come to find out that the Bucs broke training camp the day before :( so we missed it this year. bummer. So instead we slept in.. ahhh... and went to lunch at the Garden Grill and realized what an idiot I am for forgetting our camera.. helloo... Character meal. I don't remember this stuff! oh well. next time. The food was good! Esp the little yellow squash things.. and the dessert.. yum.
Talking about the Bucs.. last night was a very difficult night for me. There were like 4-5 sports things on that I like ALL AT ONCE!! and most were in HDTV! First the Bucs pre-season game.. mind you the starters left early. Then the Braves were playing St. Louis.. then The NASCAR race.. which I would have not normally watched because I am not a SHORT track fan.. but Kasey was actually leading the RACE!! seriously! he has stunk up the tracks lately and it was just nice to see his car on the TV for a change instead of trying to find him in the back of the pack as they shoot other cars! THEN the Devil Rays were playing.. so tuff to flip around! Then I fell asleep watching.. oh jeez I don't even remember which event I had on the TV.. So I still haven't checked to see who won what.. ok let me go look.
OK Atlanta Lost.(and dang the Mets won)
OH MAN! Edwards won the race and Kasey was in second!! that's ok Edwards is my other favorite driver!! both have a nines as their car number! Kasey is 9... Edwards 99
Yey the Bucs won!
oh forgot the check the Rays..They won soundly.. 14 to 3 over Oakland!
OK Sports stuff over!
Will update more soon.. but probably won't hear about our 171H for at least a week or two. Then once we get that stuff certified and authenticated our Dossier is done! can ya believe it?!?!?

Later
~Donna

He finished!!

No need to pester David! He finished his autobiography this afternoon and we emailed it to our social worker already. whew! He did a good job..got me all teary eyed!

So now we wait. I'll email her later this week and see where we are at. Now it's waiting on documents I have no control over. yuk.

Next thing.. David is going to put together some stuff.. (maybe I'll have him post here too)... actually information on a bill in Congress that has to do with Foreign adoptions. It's a long story.. so will have him update everyone soon.

Taking Friday off this week!! yippeee!! We plan on going to the Sports Complex to watch the Bucs practice and then we are having lunch at EPCOT at the Garden Grill. Need to use our 50% off meal coupons!

Later
~Donna

Slacker..

I know.. I'm a slacker!! BUT have news!!! We sent off 10 documents to the Chinese Consulate in Houston on July 25th and I picked them up last Saturday at the post office. All beautifully authenticated!! WAHOOO 11 down two to go!! Then on Aug 1st we went down the the USCIS office in Tampa to be fingerprinted. Wow I was totally impressed with how organized the entire experience was! We were 20mins early for our 11am appts. We filled out this form and I was taken back first. It's that nifty new electronic finger printing machine! They roll your finger on a glass window and it comes up on the computer screen! VERY cool! I was done at 10:58am..2 mins before my actual appt time!! Then it was David's turn.. we were all done by 5-10after eleven!! now what do we do??? The baseball game wasn't till 3pm! We took our time and drove down to St. Pete. Stopped at a most AWESOME Publix. I told David.. we need to move here!! We decided that we would have to stop here on our way home and pick up a few things! We ate lunch at this nice little Greek restaurant and got the the stadium around 2pm. It was raining everywhere this day!! We watched the Blue Jays do BP and hung out. We got our seats in the Club Level..figured what the heck! I forgot how cold it can be up there... brrrr!
This was one of those days we were glad the D-Rays play in a dome.. it POURED OUTSIDE!! We could hear it on the dome!! First it would get dark, then you'd hear the rain then it'd get light again and get dark.. and pour! crazy weather! Oh and wow the Rays won! They hardly ever win when we go see a game! It was a very exciting game too!!
On the way home we got David some new windshield wipers.. those teflon ones.. SUCK! Then of course stopped at that Publix! They had nuts in bulk! We got some raw cashews for Murphy and some unsalted pistachios for Chester! and picked up some ravioli for dinner. We didn't get home till 8:30pm or so.. geez what a long day! It rained rained all the way home.. ug... I was glad David drove.. Thanks sweetie!
OK. so back to the adoption stuff.. I asked my sister if they would be our Just in CASE anything happened to us for our daughter and she said yes.. Thanks Carol!! You guys are the best! We sent that information to our social worker.. now the only thing holding us up is David's autobiography!!!! He NEEDS TO GET THAT DONE and off to the social worker so she can put the home study together and send to the USCIS!!! I have been the biggest NAG!! All I can say is.. He BETTER finish it up today! IF anyone talks to him... bug him about it for me.. please!
Well that's where we are.. doing pretty good!!! Soon our Dossier will be in China and the big Wait begins...
Later everyone!
~Donna