Update

What a wonderful weekend we had. It was nice to relax and just have some fun! We went to Eads, CO on Thursday night to hang with my parents. Friday morning we got up, Dan and my step-dad Kevin got up and moved a deep freeze from my grandpa's to their house (only about two blocks away). Then Kevin went to work, Dan and I chit chatted with Grandpa Alvin and then we took off for Colorado Springs. It was nice to get to see the mountains again. As much as we love the plains, we miss the mountains too. We were able to join Dan's sister and her boys as well as his mom for lunch at Chipotle. I love that place. We don't have anything like that here, so we try to eat there at least once each time we go to the Springs. We spent the afternoon shopping (nothing major, we don't like spending money). Bought some groceries and had the dog get a bath and nails cut. Friday night we went to the first of three recitals. They were awesome! here are a few samples I found on youtube:

They were so good! Even the younger ones were great. I couldn't find any other videos on youtube that had our friends girls in it. these were more of the older kids, but they were amazing.

Saturday we went to one recital, had a mid afternoon lunch at Red Robin, another place we really love to eat but don't have out here, and then the final recital in the evening. It was so great to see the girls, and Ryan. We haven't seen them all in so long. Here are some picutres of us with the girls.

Dan with Kaitlyn and Ashlyn

Rob, Rebecca, Ashlyn, Kaitlyn, and Ryan (the friends we went to see. I worked with her at Compassion, Intl. before we moved - we became great friends while there)

the girls playing on the "W" outside of the school

Me, Dan, Katie, and Ash

And on the adoption front: I called today on my VA and MD background checks. VA already has it done and in the mail. The guy in MD told me that they were backlogged and he would check to see if it got done yet and if not, would pull it and do it today and get it in the mail. Hopefully our agency will have them by the end of the week! We really are anxious to get on that wait list. Our good blog friends got on the wait list last Friday and are officially #11! We are so excited for them and hope to be close behind them on that list!