GOOD NEWS!!!

GOOD NEWS!!!

January 6, 2007

We called Continental this afternoon and we were able to move our seats around so that we can sit together on all four flights AND I have a seat of my very own for the return trip!!! YEAH!!! Oh how the little things.... On the home front I dare anyone to find a piece of dust in this house!! I think that I have cleaned so hard that I have worn out my hands!! We also went through the luggage to make sure that we have everything we could need in case we have to stay a few extra days. I think that we are pretty confident that we have enough now. We have had to up grade the baby's luggage size. She now is now packed in a bag that is the same size as the one that Chris and I are sharing!! Chris just rolled his eyes after about the fifth time of "just in case...." I think that I have 'just in cased' her entire closet!!! Ol'well.... Tomorrow Chris is going to his hair did after Church and then we are going to hang around the house trying to tie up any loose ends and just TRY to stay calm!! I am going to get cleaned up now, I am smelling awful orange- like after spraying all that cleaning solution!!

In case anyone is counting... from the time of this post we are at T-34 hours until takeoff!!!

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I love you both very much!
Posted by: Aunt Tracy on January 7, 2007 at 11:08 A.M.

The Journey REALLY begins!!

The Journey REALLY begins!!

January 5, 2007

We spent the day mostly in a state of shock!!! Chris went into work this morning for two hours to tie-up the last of the loose ends since he won't be there for two weeks. Once he got home we made the hour long trip to Prince Frederick (where our agency is) to have our passport copies looked over. We were told the Embassy won't accept our passports because they are claiming that they were not notarized. For Lily to come home as a US citizen she has to come home on an IR-3 Visa. In order for us to bring her home on this Visa we have to prove that we did indeed visit her. So our Agency made color copies of our entire passport book and notarized for us today.

We were informed that because we are going to arrive pretty early in Guatemala on Monday Jose ( the agency's translator) will either be at the Marriott waiting for us or we will call him as soon as we check in. He will then take us to the Embassy to get this all worked out. Hopefully we can work it out to have her Visa appointment as early as Tuesday or Wednesday. When we come back from the Embassy on Monday Lily will be placed in our arms for the last time.

Thank goodness we spent the day running errands because as it draws nearer to go our brains are mush. We walked into Target this afternoon walked about half way down the main aisle stopped, looked at each other with this blank look and asked each other "why are we in here?!?!?!" Don't worry we got ourselves together (after we took a trip through the baby clothes :-) got what we needed and thought it best that we get off of the roads!! Tomorrow we are going to spend the day cleaning and making sure that there is nothing else we need!!

We love you all!!!

Megan and Chris

WE ARE LEAVING ON A JET PLANE....

WE ARE LEAVING ON A JET PLANE.....
Hopefully we will be home next Saturday!!!

January 4, 2007

Well we are going to go a little prematurely to pick up our girl. There has been a hick up in the Embassy and they want a new copy of our passports. Why we don't know. However, we have been given the option to go to Guatemala and hand deliver them to the embassy in hopes of bringing her home a little faster. After not holding our child for pushing 8 months... lets just say it didn't take much to convince us to go!! We have made all of the needed travel arrangements and are going to be flying out on Monday and we are VERY hopeful to return home on Saturday a happy family of THREE!!!! We will be staying at the Marriott for the week and we will be able to update the web site during our stay. We are going to be EXTREMLY busy these next three days getting everything ready to roll!! We love you all and will update daily from here on out!!

Oh more news we did get an updated medical for Lily on Tuesday she is 21 lbs and 28 in long!! Everything else was as normal as can be!! We didn't write about this before now b/c we have been waiting on news of PINK all week and wanted to make the announcement all at once.

ARGH WE ARE GOING TO GET OUR BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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aw..i can't wait to see our baby!!!...dont think shes yours or anything..im just leting you hold her..lol..i cant wait to see her..i love you guys sooo much!!!!

LOve you !,,
Brii
Posted by: Brii(fav.cousin) on January 5, 2007 at 05:18 A.M.
aw..i can't wait to see our baby!!!...dont think shes yours or anything..im just leting you hold her..lol..i cant wait to see her..i love you guys sooo much!!!!

LOve you !,,
Brii
Posted by: Brii(fav.cousin) on January 5, 2007 at 05:21 A.M.
I am praying for pink to come right away so you can get your beautiful daughter home!!!
Posted by: Reba on January 5, 2007 at 02:44 P.M.
God is good! He allows things to work out for our good. Our prayers for a safe trip and enjoy the days ahead! Love Debbie
Posted by: Debbie on January 6, 2007 at 06:36 A.M.

Happy 1st Birthday Lily!!!

Happy 1st Birthday Lily!!

January 2, 2007

Dear Lily,

One year ago today we didn’t even know that you were born. But eighteen days after God gave the world you He would show us your beautiful face, a face of a child that we were destined to love. You were so small when we first saw your picture, you were barely bigger than one of our hands. That is how you got your name. We thought that you were delicate just like a Lily flower. Once we saw you, we immediately loved you with all of our hearts. It makes us smile to see how much you have grown and to see what a pretty Big girl you are becoming. It also breaks our hearts to know we have only held you in our arms and kissed your face but a handful of times. Now a full year later we sit on pins and needles waiting for the call that will change all of our lives. The call saying that we get to hold you again and never let go. The day we can bring you home forever and instead of kissing your picture each night we can kiss your sweet face. Until that day comes, we hope that you can feel the love that we send your way everyday and know that we miss you beyond any words can describe. Yet even though we have missed this year of your life, we know that we will be there with you for all the birthdays yet to come. Happy Birthday our sweet Brown Eyed Girl, and we will see you before you know it!!

Love,

Mommy and Daddy.


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Happy Birthday Lily! Can't wait to celebrate.....wouldn't dream of doing that without you!! We love you babydoll!

Love,
Aunt Tracy, Joe & Brianna

Posted by: "Greatest " Aunt Tracy on January 2, 2007 at 05:38 A.M.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

December 25, 2006

Merry Christmas everyone. We hope that everyone is having a wonderful day. We are doing well and wanted to thank everyone for your kind words and well wishes today. It truly mean a lot to us and has made this day easier for us.

Our agency is closed for the holiday season. However, if we do receive our Pink information, we will be notified immediately despite the shutdown. Otherwise our next update will be on Lily's birthday, January 2.

Megan has made the most beautiful video for one of my Christmas presents about Lily and our journey to bring her home. So please copy and paste this link and take a look. It is truly amazing. :)

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from our family to yours.

Love,

Chris, Megan, Lily, Willie, Gus, and Dusty

Finally......

FINALLY.......

December 19, 2006

GOOD NEWS!!!! We received an email this afternoon from our agency stating that they (FINALLY after six of the longest weeks of our lives) have our birth certificate!!!YEAH!!!!! So what does this mean...... it means that we are about 2-3 weeks from bringing our baby girl HOME FOREVER!! Our agency states that our attorney is going to try to submit us into the Embassy on Thursday 12/21 (the day Chris proposed to me 9 years ago!! :-). We say try because there is only a certain amount of cases that the embassy will except on each day. If they are not able to get in Thursday they will try again next week. We are being realistic and while hoping that we get to go the week of her birthday, due to the holidays we are more then likely going to travel between the week of the 8th to the early part week of the 15th.

When we go to pick up Lily we wanted to give her Birth Mom and her Foster Mom something. But what do you give two women that have given us so much? We thought about this for a long time. During a visit about 6 months ago to Dad Henry's house we saw that Vicky is able to make Rosary's by hand. The minute we left I said to Chris that I thought that would be the perfect gift. We waited until we were out of PGN and asked Vicky if she would make two Rosary's using Lily's birthstone. Tonight on his way home Chris picked them up. All I can say is WOW!!! It is exactly what I wanted to give these two women. From Chris, myself and Lily we wanted to say a big THANK YOU to Grandma Vicky for all of her hard work to make these perfect for us!!

We will continue to update as we hear more. Thank you for keeping us in your thoughts :-)


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MERRY CHRISTMAS, Megan and Chris! We love you guys!And Merry Christmas to my precious neice, who we will soon have a lifetime of holidays and memories to share with. We love you so much already sweet girl!

Please don't be sad today. I'm thinking of you and I love you both very very much!!!
Posted by: Aunt Tracy, Joe and Brianna on December 25, 2006 at 07:04 A.M

Birth Certificate update.....

Birth Certificate update....

December 13, 2006

Dana from the POZ called Chris today and finally shed some light as to what the hold up is. She told him that 75 lawyers were caught submitting false documents to Mixco. None of which Poz is associated with (thank GOD! ). PGN got wind of this and made Mixco complete a full audit of paperwork. In the meantime no birth certificates would be issued. That explains why we were kicked out last week. Our attorney has faxed Kerry (Poz Director) a slip given to him from Mixco promising that our birth certificate will be released on Monday December 18!!We have asked that the slip be faxed to us. Now, she still won't be home for Christmas.... BUT we are on track to be in country with her on her Birthday!! We are not holding our breath for this... but the chances are looking VERY good!! Her new (and hopefully last) DVD was just mailed and we should get it by the weeks end!!

Thank you all for keeping our family in your thoughts!! We are soooooooooo ready to get off this ride and move on the Tilt-A-Wheel of parenthood!!

Hugs,
Megan and Chris

Unicef at it's best!!

Unicef at it's best!!

December 12, 2006

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16211511.htm

What is the most amazing to me is that Unicef doesn't want International adoptions to continue... ok... so help these children! Please go to this website and read the article.

Our intent was not to alarm anyone....

****This doens't effect Lily diectly but does show what goes on in her birth counrty.****

We need to ask a favor.....

We need to ask a favor.....

December 10, 2006

We need everyone everywhere to PLEASE cross your fingers that they are able to get Lily's Birth Certificate tomorrow. We have entered into the red zone for getting her home before Christmas. We did get a response from our agency on Friday evening and they are doing all that they can. However, they were not able to get a hold of the attorney to find out anything. So PLEASE PLEASE keep our Lily in your thoughts tomorrow and pray that the attorney is able to get it and that we can be submitted to the Embassy no later then Wednesday. We do not get our weekly update until the evening. They have promised that as soon as they hear something they will let us know. Thanks everybody!!! We will post as soon as we hear anything.

We love you all,

Chris and Megan

Hostile!!!

Hostile!!!

December 8, 2006

This is the BEST word to describe how we are feeling at this point. What we thought was going to be a great announcement has fizzled out... Chris called the agency (I don't call because I become a tad too emotional! Gotta love that Irish blood!!) and asked what was going on since we were told last Tuesday that they "should" have our new birth certificate by Friday of LAST week and we still hadn't heard anything. Dana at the agency told us that there was something missing and that the Civil Registry in Mixco was given the needed paperwork on Wednesday and now we wait again. Chris is going to call again this afternoon and find out what the new ETA is for it. It is looking more and more like Christmas in Guatemala!! So needless to say we are totally frustrated and HOSTILE!! I will write more when we hear something.. no news = no BC and another LONG weekend!


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I can only imagine how the two of you must be feeling right now. Maybe Lily just wants to share Christmas "Guatemala style", with her mommy and daddy! How many people do you know that have had that experience? Where you spend the holiday doesn't really matter as long as you're all together!! I love you guys!!!!
Posted by: Aunt Tracy on December 8, 2006 at 07:37 P.M.