Seven days and a wakeup...

Until we head to Russia! We need to buckle down and get the thank you cards printed...Busy weekend ahead, Haircuts, close the pool for the winter, pickup suit from cleaners, go to bank to arrange for fresh bills and of course Football. Here is our "puppy". The youngest of our dogs...Indy. Nothing to reference his size here but he's about 215lbs of puppy (so he thinks).

Eight Days and a wake up...

Until we depart. Well we are trying to get everything done around the house so that we leave our Nephew Rob (who will be staying with Keegan and the dogs) with everything he and Keegan need to make it through the week and a half that I will be gone (and Keegan and I through until the 28th when Mom and the kids come home). Last night was pet food night! 88 lbs of dry dog and 24 cases of canned, two 15lb bags of biscuits and some other treats for the 3 Saint Bernards. A 15 lb bag of dry and 3 cases of canned for the single cat (that lives in Gloria's office at work). Now that this is done we can get the pool closed, hair cuts, Kitchen Tiled....etc...

9 days and a wakeup...

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Till we depart...This is our daily countdown...

Last night we agreed on the front for our thank you cards for the caregivers. Today we will work on the inside of the card and hopefully get it translated ok...perhaps tonight we can begin printing.

Packed!!!!

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Well our 4 big bags are packed and all 4 are right at their 50 pound weight limit! When we were in Spassk in May we asked the Staff what they needed for the younger kids...they wanted Lego's and cars for the boys, Done! A big bin of legos and 50 or so matchbox type cars! They also wanted baby dolls and strollers for the girls, Done, 18 baby dolls and 10 strollers! Of course all of this fills two full suitcases. I will be bringing home at least 2 if not 3 empty suitcases when I return on the 13th. Our hotel reservations are made for both the enroute hotel in Seoul and the Vlad Motor Inn for the long stay in Vladivostok.

We had hoped that we might get to have the kids at the hotel during our 10 day wait. WACAP tells us that this is probably not very likely. We will of course continue to ask up until the last minute. It is ultimately the Detski Dom directors decision and of course we understand that the kids are the responsibility of the Detski Dom until the end of the 10 day wait and the liabilities involved.

Well 10 days and a wake up until we depart...

Travel Dates

Well the flights are booked! YEAH!!!! We will leaving Chicago on October 3rd. We fly to Seattle and then to Tokyo and then on to Seoul Korea. We will spend the night of October 4th in Seoul. We leave Seoul at 10AM on October 5th and arrive in Vladivostok at 2:20PM on the 5th. (Remember Vlad is 16 hours ahead of Home (central standard time)).

We will get to see the kids on the 6th. HOORAY!!!!!

Court will be on the 9th! Hopefully we will become a family of five!!

Kenny will fly out on the 12th to Seoul. He will overnight there and leave on the 13th and go thru Tokyo and arrive in Chicago on October 13th.

The kids and I (YEAH!!) will leave Vladivostok on October 27th and overnight in Seoul and then on to Tokyo and then on to Chicago. We will arrive in Chicago on Wednesday October 28th and meet up with Kenny and Keegan!

Rumor has it...........Grandma and PaPa Harry will be there too! (Hip Hip Hooray!)

Court Date!

YEAH! We finally got one! Our court date is October 9th, 2009. More details to follow when we get them. But isn't this interesting..............our anniversary is October 7th, Kenny's birthday is October 8th, now we will have another milestone in our family to celebrate on October 9th.

Thanks everyone for your prayers, thoughts and everything! Means the world to us!

Update number 46354758768!

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Well today we found out that our agency has a meeting with our judge in Vlad on 9-15-09. As far as we know we are the only WACAP case that this judge currently has so it must be about us!