Merry Christmas!

can you believe it? the holidays are here! where has 2009 gone? seems like just yesterday we were attending our first adoption information meeting at lss... it's crazy to think that was more than 11 months ago already! there's not much new to report on the adoption front...we've now been officially waiting almost 8 months and we are both hoping that this is our last christmas as a couple of DINKS! hopefully next year we'll have a little one to spoil and to celebrate the holidays with! i can't imagine a more perfect gift! :)

let's see...regarding our dossier, we're still waiting on our fingerprint report from the fbi, we're getting our financial statement notarized by our bank tomorrow (tried to do this last friday on our way out of town, but found out that only a spanish speaking notary could sign it! nothing is ever easy you know!) and we have to take one more psychological test through lss next week (another new requirement for colombian adoptions). once we have all that, i will send it in to bettina for review and then finally we will have everything apostilled and forwarded on to colombia and the orphanage. no one said this would be easy, but it's all part of the fun, right?

i had my 12-week post-surgery appointment for my knee down at mayo today and everything checked out fairly well. i need to continue to strengthen my quad (my right quad is still 2 inches smaller in diameter than my left one!) and work on walking without a limp. believe me when i tell you that i am MORE than ready for my knee to be back to 'normal'. i haven't worked out since july 29th and all of the christmas goodies look and taste so good...it's hard to resist. perhaps some one-legged jumping jacks will be in order?

everyone in minnesota is bracing for the big snow storm that is supposed to hit just in time for christmas. we're planning on heading to owatonna on friday morning...we'll see if that happens or not. if we're stuck here, i guess heath and i will get to spend lots of quality couple time together. i am really hoping we can get out! ha ha.

wishing all of our friends and family a very merry christmas and a healthy & happy 2010!

love,
ang & heath

A Colombian - KONE Connection...

hey everyone! i hope that you all had a great thanksgiving weekend...i know we did! we had my family over on thanksgiving and heath prepared a delicious turkey dinner for all of us. friday mel, heath & i all carried on our annual tradition of shopping til we drop and it was a successful day for all of us. saturday we put up our christmas tree and decorated the house for the holidays. i must say, it's beginning to look a lot like christmas.... call me crazy, but i think i'm even ready for some snow now!

monday it was back to the grind at work. i ended up spending the morning with bruce, a co-worker that was in town from moline, and told him about our adoption journey. as i was telling him our story, i mentioned that we had chosen to adopt from colombia. as soon as i said this, he got excited and told me about a fellow kone employee that is actually from colombia! jose and his family go back to colombia on a regular basis to visit family and friends and have many connections down there. bruce connected with jose when he got back to moline and has already emailed me letting me know that jose is willing to share his connections with us and that he will help "take care of us" when we travel down to colombia to pick up our baby! heath & i are both so excited to learn more and to hopefully meet up with jose the next time we are in the quad cities. what a blessing it will be to have someone with first-hand knowledge help us continue on this amazing adventure.

buenos noches!
ang & heath