NEXT WEEK!?!?!?

I'm so excited! Our agency called us back. They have a little boy who is getting his medical evaluation done today. They don't know his age or health status yet. If everything goes well, we should be getting a call early next week. EEEEK!!!

China Referral Calculator

On a depressing note, I discovered this China Referral calculator yesterday.
http://chinaadoptionforecast.com

You enter your log-in date, and based on the adoption rates of the last year or so, it estimates when you will receive your referral. It predicts we will get our China referral in September of 2014! Good grief...On a happier note, we're waiting on our Vietnam adoption agency to call back. Our coordinator told us to call her today and said she'd tell us what she's been hearing. Still hoping for a referral next week!

Adoption Rules Tighten Abroad

http://washingtonindependent.com/view/international

Here's an interesting article that discusses Vietnam adoption and other international adoption as well. In it, Vietnam says that "it will shut down rather than deal with what it described as disrespectful U.S. officials. The two countries remain at an impasse." Sad.

Cute baby boy

Check this out! It's the blog of a family who's in Vietnam right now adopting their baby boy. He's so cute.

http://www.travel2morgan.blogspot.com/

Strawberry Blond Baby from China

I just had to post this! Here's a blog for a family who just got their referral from China. It's a baby girl who has strawberry blond hair! I do not understand! She's very cute, though!

http://www.babyjellybeans.com/web/do/site/photo;jsessionid=6102A885A90B4A04FCA32905A619D348?ID=348758

10th Wedding Anniversary!

Next weekend is our 10th wedding anniversary (May 9th). I'm so excited that we're going away on a nice little weekend trip to the mountains / lake in southeastern Oklahoma. Here's where we're staying! http://www.cabinsinbrokenbow.com/cabins_broken_bow_lake.html

Scroll down to "Steph's Secret." That one's ours!

We're #1!

Eddie talked to the agency today. They got a few referrals. We didn't get ours, but we are now #1 on the list! The next boy referral that arrives will be ours! She said referrals usually come every other week so hopefully we'll have a referral in two weeks or less....

Another traveling family

Another family from my agency leaving for Vietnam this weekend. They are adopting a 5 year old boy. He's adorable, too!

http://pacificjourney.wordpress.com/

Waiting....

I'm waiting, waiting, waiting for news. Eddie is calling the agency today for an update. We're still hoping for a referral this week!

Here's the blog of another family from my agency. They're leaving this weekend for Vietnam to pick up their baby. She's adorable!

http://ourjourneyto lara.wordpress. com