Beautiful Weekends

How can you ask for nicer weather. That is one thing about California, you can always find a weekend to just walk on the beach during fall and winter. The weather is perfect. Yesterday my mom and I went to meet my brother and we had a great picnic in the park. I had not seen my brother in a long time an on his way through we found a few hours to enjoy each others company and a piece of cheesecake.
I did find time to shop and decided though its lugging a stroller with me I really need to. If I end up alone I will have 2 kids one stroller and if she hates the carrier I am in trouble sooooo. I found a 15% off coupon online for Babies R Us and will buy the double stroller today. I figure at worst it could carry the diaper bag for me :).
Now to the bigger news. I have gone back and forth with our agency. Return phone calls are not happening for the last month, we have gotten a few emails, one saying go ahead and get your Visa which we did apply for. With holidays and such they are slower so in a crunch you can be in trouble. We did find it faster and cheaper again in the San Francisco Consulate so we applied there. It is $45 for a 30 day Visa. We then booked our flight and hope to at least visit our daughter and make headway on a giving and receiving. After we arrive it will approach our 6 months since we got our referral. Very frustrating.
So one more week and we will see you in Saigon.

Where is the Visa

I went to apply yesterday for our Visa and the man kept telling my I cannot use the money order with my Visa. It was to funny as he meant I could not pay for the money order with my Visa. I was not going to but wanted to apply for my Visa to enter Vietnam and he just missed the whole thing. It is now 1 week since they our agency got the last signature as per my email on Friday from the director. So do you think we have a giving and receiving? It is going to be 6 months from referral if they don't hurry. We have been on the phone with airlines and hope to secure a ticket today for the end of the month. It is our hopes that by then he will have the date or they will once I arrive but its way to long and we need to be with our daughter.
Ok so bags are getting packed and weighted but the controversy over how much each can weight. I have two duffel bags with donations, clothes, soft toys and formula. The remainder of formula is in my suitcase. Packing for 2 children is not easy either as I know my sons size but the baby's is a mystery as I have asked for her weight but have not gotten that for awhile.
It is going to be 90 degrees here today so I should get outside and enjoy it before it gets to hot.

Are we there yet????

The weather is warm and its just wonderful outside now if we had a baby to walk around with and share all the pretty trees. It is now creeping up on 5 months from referral and still nothing. Each week it's next week we will hear, who said this would be easy. We got new pictures and I think this is just getting harder by the day. I don't talk to anyone about it anymore since I know little to nothing. Ok frustrated we are. My husband offered ok I asked to go there and just wait it out there. Guess what ?? He said Yes. So we called the agency and are on day 4 of no return call :(. So instead I will share our pictures we got a couple of weeks ago.

So now do you know why the wait is so hard? We watch her grow up through pictures. Ok break time tears again..