USCIS Approval

We received our USCIS approval for Xylie's adoption on Monday afternoon!  We are super excited as we were getting worried.  Her approval came almost exactly two weeks later than Saiya's approval took to arrive.  Now we are getting together the funds to send to CAWLI so that our paperwork can be sent to China (I went to the bank yesterday but they were closed by the time I got off work-- I will be going today during my lunchbreak to the bank and the post office).  We have about 6 months ahead of us and we are all still very excited!  Especially little Saiya.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We went to Ft Meyers for Thanksgiving weekend with Saiya.  We were visiting family down there.  I'm so glad that Saiya is a great traveler!  We had a great dinner and Saiya had a great time playing with Chris's Cousin Hannah.  We took Saiya to the Shell Factory where she filled a jar full of sea shells and got to watch a hermit crab race.  We were home on Saturday with Sunday to relax a little bit before going back to work.  Thank you to family for letting us stay at your house and eat all your food!

Happy Halloween!

Trick-or-Treating was a blast!  Saiya and 6 other kids in our group had a great time!  Got lots of candy and really enjoyed riding around the neighborhood in the back of my mom's pick-up truck.  It made it easier on us and the kids didnt have to walk as much between houses.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!  Funny that next year, we will be adding one more to the group!  So excited!

On another note, we received the orphanage address and I made tags for the items we want to go to Xylie.  We will be sending a care package out sometime this week.  She will finally get pictures of us and a few things like clothes and stuffed animals.  We really can't wait to go get her from China!