The very best Christmas present of all!!!!!

HO HO HO...we think that Joey is the best looking Santa that we have ever seen! What a doll. We receive this pictures from our agency yesterday and were estatic, he looks wonderful. Obviously not missing any meals at almost 14lbs. He looks happy and content. We leave in four days for our visit trip and are SO excited! We have enough packed for an army and cannot wait to spoil him rotten. We are also looking forward to sharing this exciting news with his big sis when we return home. For those of who check the blog frequently we will be posting pictures (i am sure many many many pictures) from Guatemala. Thanks to Johns tech skills we will be able to send and receive emails from our hotel room in the Marriot Guatemala. We hope each of you had a wonderful Christmas and wish you a HEALTHY AND HAPPY New Year!

Love,

Lee and John

AHHH the stresses of adoption

AHHH!! It has been a difficult few weeks with the adoption process. Our case has been trapped in Family Court for almost seven weeks (pretty unheard of) and now we found out that the social worker in Guatemala has just left for a one month vacation! Therefore the report will not be completed until January 15th. This setback delays our case about two months! To say that we are disappointed would be a major understatement we are really disgusted and we have not even reached the difficult part yet...PGN.

On a bright note we do leave on January 3rd for our five day visit trip. We will have custody of Joey for the entire visit and cannot wait. I have packed enough stuff for ten babies, but I cannot help it! Sarah will certainly have a blast while we are gone thanks to her grandparents, I just hope they can all keep up with her (lol). We had originally hoped to begin explaining the adoption to her upon our return home in Jan. but now with this setback we may delay that. It is just too confusing and the time is too unpredictable. We will blog and post pics while in Guat. so keep checking for updated pictures. Have a very Merry Christmas and say some prayers that our case gets back on track.

Lee Anne