Kazakhstan our dossier has arrived!

Well, we got some exciting news today, our dossier was registered at the MFA as of Monday, April 28th!!  We still have some time left to go, but it sure is nice to know that our paperwork is in country!  Just a few more steps to Baby G!

Not much else to report.  They predicted a freeze for our area so I ran out and covered all of our plants and then we didn't even get frost, so my garden is safe for a few more days until ole mother nature decides to turn on us again!!  Let's hope not!  I spent the weekend with my family while they visited in Branson.  We spent a lot of time down at the newly developed landing and then went over to get a look at Table Rock Dam and THIS time all ten flood gates were open!  The lake level was REALLY high, but you could see that it had been higher!  Well, enough ramblings, I really just wanted to share our exciting news!

Paka

Finally a little freetime!

So this is a picture of Table Rock Lake Dam in Branson, Missouri about three weeks ago.  At that time they had only five of the ten flood gates open, about a week later they had to open the remaining 5 flood gates.  It was very impressive looking.  We got some more rain this week and the Corp of Engineers was forced to open all ten flood gates once again and more rain is in the forecast.  In the above picture I think they said that 19,000 cu.ft. of water per second was being released.  When all ten were open they were releasing about 45,000 cu. ft./second.  That is a lot of water!!  That is my useless fact for the day.  Nothing new on the adoption front to report.  Things for us have been pretty busy, Jeff's dad was put in the hospital about two weeks ago with Leukemia.  The prognosis seems optimistic with a good chance that he will go into remission, but we have spent a lot of time going back and forth to the hospital to help out his mom.  In between all of the rain and our comings and goings we have managed to get our garden planted so the rain for us has been a good thing.  Not much else to talk about right now! Paka!

Where is the SUNSHINE!!

So the weather here has been less than acceptable.  WE get teaser days that are nice and in the 70's and then we get rain for a week and it gets cold and dreary.  A lot of places around us have flooded, but we haven't floated away and shouldn't anytime soon; although, I feel as though we should be building an ark!  This weekend we are even supposed to get snow flurries!!!  YUCK!

There isn't a whole lot going on any front.  A week, to the day, the adoption suspension for Kazakhstan was lifted and things are supposed to be moving, but probably a little slower than before.  We just continue on with preparations and life.  I contacted our agency to see if our dossier had moved, but they had received no information that it had reached the MFA, which is the first place it has to go when it reaches Kazakhstan.  With nothing more to say...Paka!