It's Time to Make Our BIG Announcement!

So my husband and I have been spending the last three weeks in another one of our infamous whirlwinds... This time for GOOD reason. We are ADOPTING!!! We hesitated to post in on our blog, because we wanted to make sure we told as many people close to us as possible (sorry if we forgot you!). Here is how the timeline goes:

July 29th - Met with an adoption attorney and he tells us he has the perfect baby for us
August 2nd- The deadline to tell the attorney if it is a "go" or not
August 4th- Deliver the check and sign the contract
August 15th- Met the birthmother
August 17th- Were supposed to find out the sex, but didn't :( (fingers crossed for September)
and MOST importantly:
December 25th- DUE DATE!

Isn't that insane??? We will be parents in 2011, after all! Please keep positive thoughts and prayers for us and our birthmother, to make this VERY long dream of ours FINALLY come true!
Hugs ~ Amy

Redo, Part Deux

We have a lot going on right now, which I will share at a later date. We have been on this home improvement kick, most recently the patio. There are no before pictures because it was just uber plain... Here is the after:


We love it and we have the umbrella that we can put up for a little shade...lovely. Also, my husband's new favorite thing:

Yep, a Red Sox grill cover... He is obsessed...

So the next thing we have to work on is the "nursery":

Lord, help us... Do you see this? I am so overwhelmed, I want to cry. Last night we had friends over for a cookout and one of our friend's daughters (like 5 & 9?) offered to clean it out for $100. The older one was appalled that her little sister would charge, but please! Nobody would take that on for free!! :) They were so cute. (Is it bad that I am really thinking about utilizing that resource??) Then, the guest room... that is a nightmarish mess. What happened? We started something and then it just all went downhill.... Boo...