While We Wait...

You may or may not have noticed the horrendous lack of posting lately. The lack of adoption news has caused a bit of a drought. For those who haven't been following since the beginning, we starting this adoption journey looking to Uganda (6-9 months they told us...18 months ago). When it looked like no progress was in sight for Uganda, we were contacted by missionary friends in Guatemala who had two kids we knew that were going to be available for adoption, so we switched our paperwork to Guatemala. Then Guatemala shut down before we could get far enough in the process to be grandfathered in. Now there may be some hope back in Uganda, but news is mostly nonexistent. And here we sit in our adoption purgatory.

So...until the adoption news picks up again (which we hope and pray will be soon), Matt is going to attempt to do some more non-adoption-news posting just to keep you all entertained. We'll see how this goes. Because the main purpose of this blog is to chronicle our adoption process, we're going to keep the same title, "Our Adoption Adventure", though we have seriously considered renaming it "Our Stagnant Adoption" or "Our Clear Lack of an Adoption" or "When Good Adoptions Go Bad" or some such thing. (That was intended to be funny, not depressing, but I think it missed the mark.)

We still believe in adoption. We are still committed to adoption. We still want our friends and family to be involved. So...keep coming back to our blog. We promise we'll try to do better! (And by do better, I mean post trite and trivial nonsense to keep you entertained.)

Happy Anniversary to Us!

That's right, 6 years ago today we said "I do." We thought we'd share some pics from our special day.

Guatemala Adoption News

An article from CNN on the reasons behind the adoption halting in Guatemala here.

If that link doesn't work, you can cut and paste this into your browser: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/28/international.adoptions/index.html

More Befores & Afters

Master Bedroom:

Master Bathroom:

Family Room:

Moving Day(s)

Thursday and Saturday were moving days. Amanda, Caleb, and Matt's Mom & Dad lent a hand. Here are some pictures:

Caesar wants to go too...

Matt & Caleb move Amy's hope chest...

Matt and Caesar take a break from the heavy lifting...

Caleb lifts some really heavy stuff...

Finishing Touches

Over the past week we put the finishing touches on the house in preparation for a weekend of moving. Here's a look:

Amanda paints a closet...

Matt measures for a curtain...

Amy paints a church bench from her grandmother...

So It Continues...

We continue to be hard at work at the new house. Here is some proof:

Caesar, as always, is master of his domain.

Matt plants a flowering cherry tree in the front yard.

Matt sands a door frame.

Matt paints the ceiling in the master bedroom.

Matt reads the instructions on his new miter saw.

Amy's cousin D.J. (just done with her first semester at Asbury) helps paint the family room.