Friday, July 12, 2013

Another Farewell

Seems like he's always leaving, but hopefully this will be the last "long" deployment.  

Shawn left for Afghanistan today.  We just dropped him off with about 40 other marines from his unit.  Shawn said there would be a total of about 320 marines flying out together, so it's gonna be a full flight.

I'm already missing him, the first few days are always the hardest.  Kiley's holding up really well.  She didn't cry, but once we got home, she said she already missed Shawn.  We already sat her down and let her know that Shawn would be gone for her b-day and for x-mas.  We just didn't want those things to come as a surprise later.

Shawn should be home maybe January or February of 2014.  Can't wait for his return :)

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Adoption update #11

Just a quick update, we have submitted our ppa and photo book for 2 different children.

Our stuff gets handed over to the children's case workers for review and then we wait. Our case worker Cameron said that we might hear back from them in a week, a month or possibly never. Here's the deal, there might be 10 different couples interested in the same child, so theres a little bit of competition but it's completely out of our hands now. so we wait. 

But while we wait, if other children became available we can submit our ppa and photo book for them too. 

If the case workers are interested in us, they will have us come out and meet the child. Then from there I have no idea. 

Shawn leaves in a couple days for another deployment to Afghanistan and we really did a lot of thinking about what we should do about the adoption while he's gone. We decided that if the situation happens and we are fortunate to find a child while he's gone, we are going to go ahead with the adoption. Yes, it might be difficult for me to do this without him. And yes, it might be difficult when Shawn comes home to an addition to the family. But for us, we don't want to take the chance that we might miss an amazing child. So if a child is available and we are selected, we will go through with the adoption without Shawn here. 

Shawn thinks I'm weird because every time I hear a beep that tells me Im getting an email, I always always always think its gonna be our case worker telling us about a new child or following up on one we are interested in. Even when the email comes in at midnight on a Saturday. I'm lame, I know, but I'm so excited, anxious, and hoping to hear something before Shawn leaves. 

Wish us luck!

Friday, July 5, 2013

4th of July

We spent the 4th of July with our friends Mike, Becky and their daughter Haley.  We had a BBQ at their house in New Bern, NC and then watched the fireworks.

Anyone else agree Sparklers have gone downhill since we were kids?  They SUCKED the big one.

And then Kiley got curious and touched the sparkler tip (while it was sparkling) and got a nasty burn on her finger.  It blistered immediately.  She was a trooper though and barely shed a tear.  We got some Neosporin and a bandaid on the finger and she was all better :)

All these pics were taken before the burn, otherwise there would have been no smiles from Kiley.