Summertime....

means doing dossier paperwork....

and some extra real estate law work...

and filing our I600A with US Customs and Immigration...

and being assigned to get our Biometric Fingerprints taken...

in Michigan City, Indiana (wha??????)....

which led to...

an impromptu beach afternoon...

where the littles played in the water...

and the bigs stayed close to the shade (well 2 of them did, Brent was sunscreening-up and then went and played in the water with the kiddies!)...

We are expecting our I171H (the document approving us to bring adopted children into the country) any day now...the other 34 documents of our dossier will be Apostilled (getting a State of Illinois stamp to authenticate them to a foreign government) and ready for pick up on Monday...

Then our big package will be kissed goodbye and sent off!

And then we wait...

while we finish out the summer...