LOL!!!

Okay, I just noticed the "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" post that Mom posted. I never went on to blog yesterday, so I never saw the post until now!!! LOL! Mom just told me that she was waiting all day for me to come on and blog, but I only went on to check my email! When I saw it I didn't know who did it until I saw Mom's face and read the post! LOL! Thanks Mom!

Yesterday was soooooo much fun! JCPenny's finally opened in McHenry and my grandparents(on my Mom's side) bought me this really cute and soft pajama set! It's like a sea foam green and feels like those really soft socks. They also got me a pair of those really soft socks! Jonah got me the second Christy Miller Volume and Christopher got me this really cute 3/4 sleeve top! Mom and Dad got me a soap making kit, which I have used pretty much all of the Glycerin up! My grandparents (on my Mom's side) split my laptop with me when I got it so that was supposed to be my present, but then we went shopping and they bought me a whole bunch of clothes! I also got some money from my aunt and uncle, and a half dollar from my grandparents (on my Mom's side). We had Chinese :D for dinner and Sundays for dessert!

This was my last birthday without Sarah!!

Still no LOA yet :(
Have a great rest of your weekend everybody!

HAPPY 14TH BIRTHDAY CAITIE!!!!!

We love you very much and thank the Lord everyday for blessing us with you. HIS love and faithfulness abound! You are a treasure on this earth and we are so very proud to call you our daughter.
With all our love, Mom and Dad
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
"Many daughters have done well, but you excell them all. Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised." Proverbs 31:29-30

We've Got PA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We've got PA!!!! I'm so happy!! Only 2 more steps to go!!!! We didn't get the updated picture with it, though. I'm thinking if we don't get it when Bethanne gets back from China we might get it with LOA. But so far it's looking like we're going to be traveling in December!! YAY!!

We're almost there Missy!!!

Nice Matters Award

Staci has given me the Nice Matters Award!

From what it looks like, this award is for those bloggers who are nice people; good blog friends and those who inspire good feelings and inspiration. Also for those who are a positive influence on our blogging world. :D

Aww! Thanks so much Staci!

I now nominate, Lexi, Olivia, and Ally.

No email yet...

...for our PA. BUt we are out of the review room!!!! Now Mom's thinking that instead of getting PA we're just going to jump right ahead and get out LOA. We're hoping that's the case because then TA follows right after and then Sarah Grace comes home!!! I am still so frusterated with Sunnyridge. I can't get over what they're doing. Julie (our SW) said that when they get our PA she'll email it right away. *sighs* If we do get LOA instead of PA we'll be traveling in a month-an-a-half!!! Oh well, the only thing we can do right now is pray that Sarah is safe and healthy. And check Mom's email everyday. :D

Liar, Liar, We Just Want Our Daughter (or in my case sister)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I just want to fly to China, grab Bethanne by the ear and drag her back to the States just so she can gives us everything she's been keeping from us. I'll start from the beginning.

Mom has found the moms of Sarah's adoption "sisters"! Sarah and these two little girls are in the same Institute as she is. Cool, huh? So with one of the families, it turns out their file waited two weeks - as did ours. Bethanne had told this family that they were waiting for someone else to get the paperwork done. They assumed it was us. Remember how in July I posted that Bethanne said we were waiting for another family to finish their paperwork? Well we assumed that it was this family. So it turns out that the family we were thinking we were waiting for another family but it turnes out that their paperwork was already done and at Sunnyridge! So everyones paperwork was held two weeks for no reason!! AAAARRRR!!!!! Bethanne says she cares so much about these children but apparently not enough if she's lying to everyone and holding files longer than they need to be.

Also! Yes there is an also and this also is making me so insane!! SunnyRidge has updated pictures of Sarah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And they won't send them to us until we're PA!! We were supposed
to get these pictures with her Medical Update but they were never sent. Bethanne said she would email the pictures to us with the medical info! Mom has figured out that we should be getting PA on Monday if everything is done right.

Mom has figured out, also that we have 3-4 months until travel. So we'll probably be traveling around the week of Christmas. So far that's the only news thats kept me from screaming.

Have a great weekend, everybody!!

No Posts/ Middle Name Meme

Hey! Sorry about not posting in a while. I've had some problems with my wrist latley and nothings really come up with the adoption. So I haven't been able to post anything for this blog. Anyway, Staci's tagged me for the Middle Name Meme, so here goes nothin.


You have to post these rules before you post the facts:
1. Players, you must list some fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name. If you don't have a middle name, use the middle name you would have liked to have had.
2. When you are tagged you need yo write your own blog post containing your own middle name facts.
3. At the end of your blog post, you need to choose one person for each letter of your middle name to tag. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they're tagged.

N is for Not able to do this very well because I can't think of anything good for N.
I is for Interested in adoption.
C is for Caitie, because that's my name.
O is for Opinionated. I like to give my opinion. But only when the time feels right.
L is for Laughs. I love to laugh.
E is for Elegant. At least that's what my mom says.

I never knew that characterizing myself would be so hard! Anyway, I now tag Lexi, Olivia, Holly, Ally, and Emmie. I can't think of another person so whoever I missed who hasn't done it yet? Go for it!

NEW MEDICAL INFO!!

YAY!!! Sarah's medical info is here!! All I understand with these numbers is that she's 17.1 lbs. :D My little micheline (SP?) baby. No updated pics though. Darn. Maybe with the LOA or PA?

Another Picture Malfunction

Okay so it looks like this pic didn't come up the first time so here it is. :D

Quick post!

Hey! Okay. I have made another blog. http://www.diaryofacountrygirl.blogspot.com/ !! :D Please visit it and also tell other bloggers about it?! I also need some help finding a good song to put on it so if anyone could help me, that would be just great. You all have my email address so you could just email the title to me. Also, I just realized I write so so much on here and no one (sorry Staci I'm going to have to remove you from this category:D) knows what I look like! So here is our family adoption picture (the one that we sent to CHina with our dossier -sp?-) I really hope it comes up, I've notice that some of the pictures I want to show up don't.

Happy Birthday Dearest Sarah.............

Happy Birthday To YOU!!!:D Today is Sarah's 1'st birthday!! Happy Birthday Sweet Girl!

OOPS....

sorry about about not posting even though I said I would. I was really busy this weekend. On Friday Christopher and Dad left for Wisconsin, leaving Mom, Jonah, and I home without a car. :D The day before Mom and I had gone to the video store to get a bunch of movies for Friday and Saturday night. We really actually only got three movies, Around The World in 80 Days (Jonah and I had already seen it when it came out but thought it was so funny we had to get it again), Unaccompanied Minors (which I may say was pretty funny), and Kicking and Screaming (WORST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN! okay there were a few funny parts but other than that? Never again will I see that movie.) So on Friday night we watched ATWI80D and UM. I also must add that we had one whole back of chocolate covered raisins, Twizzlers (SP?). We had to be up until about midnight watching movies. On Saturday? It was pretty much like every Saturday. My grandparents came up from Chicago and spent the day with us. We went to Sears and Michaels and found some really cute outfits for Sarah, but we didn't get them since we're still waiting for her medical info. Okay, I'm actually going to have to take a pause in telling about the weekend to explain. As you all know we've been waiting for Sarah's medical info -which we still haven't gotten yet. Mom said that we're not going to buy anymore clothes until we get her info because we don't know how much she weighs now and if she's still in the 18 months sizes or if now she's all the way in the 24 months. Bummer. Especially since it's already been a week and still no info.

Anyway, back to my weekend. So after we went shopping we came home and ordered Chinese. Yum!! After Gram and Papa left, we popped K&S in. I won't say anything more about that movie. We went straight to bed after the movie. ON Sunday, Mom let us sleep in later than usual. I think I slept until like 11 or something :D. Christopher and Dad came home at 1:30 PM and we had Tacos for dinner. Then Mom, Jonah, and I went to PetsMart and I got four fish and a snail and Jonah got some filters for his tank. Today we went back and Jonah got 2 snails. :D

Congratulations to Olivia and Trent!! I can't wait to see your little girls face!! I'm sure you're a lot more anxious than I am. :) We're all praying for you guys.

YADA, YADA, YA,

Yeah I know. I haven't been posting much and when I do their "nice" and short. And I dedicate the-slowest-moving-adoption-center award to....take a wild guess, I'll give you a hint. It starts with Sunny and ends with ridge. Put it all together and you get Sunnyridge (I think I just ruined the Pattycake Song). Sorry. I've suddenly got to stop writting so I'll continue later or tomorrow.

One Big Sad Face Comin Up :(

Yeah I know, it's not that big, but whatever. The point is, is that Bethanne still hasn't emailed us the new medical info on Sarah!!!! Mom goes online everday to check her mail and still no email. We're not sure if Bethanne is just taking her sweet old time like she usually does, or if she just hasn't gotten the info yet. :(

New Medical Info!!

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in a while!! There hasn't been much to post about lately. Still no PA or LOA, but Bethanne did email Mom two days ago and told us that some new medical information on Sarah has come in!!! YAY!!!! We're hoping to be getting that around next week and we're also thinking that PA might come with all of this also. But China must be looking at our files if info is being sent out to us! HURRAY!! We're getting closer!!!

I just realized

that today is my 101st post! YAY!!!! I can't wait until 1 year anneversary!! *Gasp* Sarah will definatley be here for that!!! *Sigh* I can't wait!! YAY!! :D Have a great weekend everybody!!!

PS: If anyone has noticed I'm a little hyper right now!!! And we're going out for ice cream in a little bit so that should really calm me down. ;D Haha!

Her Cleft Lip/ Palate....

...is not so bad!! Yesterday Mom took Christopher to get his sports physical and she ended up showing our doctor Sarah's picture. She (dr.) told Mom that she didn't think we have to worry about Sarah's nutritan. She said that her face had a lot of color and that her cleft lip looks minor, she said that it looks like it didn't go through her gum. She also said that since Sarah is so chubby, she doesn't think that her palate is that bad. She said that since her picture is of her at 5 months, Sarah has to suck on her bottle or whatever way she feeds and it looks like she's doing a pretty good job if she's this chubby. :D So it looks like surgery isn't going to be as major as we had thought!! I'm so happy! I really didn't want to put little Sarah through so much.

(I just can't get enough of that face!!!:D)

Thanks so much, Ally! It looks great!

Thanks Ally!!

Thanks so much, Ally!! It's so cute!

Day At The Beach (No Pics)

Sorry. No pics. The camera was out of battery's and we didn't have any extra ones. But the beach was so fun. COLD!! But fun. Two of Christopher's friends, Mike and Justin, came and they were a hoot! Three sixteen year old guys singing (let me rephrase that. Trying to sing) on the way home will make you laugh so hard you're crying, especially when one of them doesn't know the words to most of the songs and just adds in his own. :D We first went to Lake Geneva but the beach was so crowded and you had to pay $5 to get in. Dad was like no way. So we ended up driving about an hour (it was actually only 4o minutes away from Lake Geneva but Dad took a wrong turn and we had to drive an extra 20 minutes) to another beach connected to Lake Michigan that was free and a lot less crowded. The boys, including Jonah, all brought there skateboards and left me to go in the water alone. :( After about ten minutes, the boys finally got really hot and came over to the water. Except they took forever (just Christopher and his friends) to get in because it was so cold! Finally Mike gave the go ahead by tackling Justin into the water. LOL!!! It was hilarious! We all waded out and had a blast whenever the waves came. We swam for about an hour and then the boys went over by the rocks to climb. I didn't want to climb so I went over by Mom, who was on the blanket, and asked her if she could put the tanning lotion on my back. She did and we both relaxed on the blanket. To bad the sun only stayed out for a little while and then hid behind a cloud the rest of the day. After about 20 minutes of that the boys climbed off of the rocks and back into the water. It took about 10 minutes for us to wade to the sand and then about another 10-20 minutes for us to dry off and get into the car. We were all very thirsty, so Dad found a little store and we all got something to drink. About halfway home Christopher, Mike, and Justin started singing songs that they well...sort of knew. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard in my life!!! It was to hilarious!!!! Well that was Dad's birthday! I hope everyone else had a great day.