3 weeks and counting...

Hello everyone and Happy Monday! :)
I hope that everyone had a wonderful 4th of July weekend!!! Ours was WONDERFUL! We left on the 3rd for a 10 day trip to Florida! We had an absolute ball. We drove (B and I love road trips!!!) through Atlanta and picked up my sister Kristen and then went on to Orlando to my parents house. Jill came in from Tampa and we had a fabulous 4th of July picnic with my family and our neighbors in Florida. Saturday we left for the beach for our annual family beach trip at New Smyrna Beach. As always; it was a blessed trip!! My parents, Kristen & Brian, Jill & Will and Brandon and I enjoyed each others company and time together. It's always SO DIFFICULT to leave them but we returned home last night and we were back to work today. I attempted to post pictures but I'm having technical difficulties (Imagine that! Me; the tech queen- haha ;-) Once I have them loaded, I'll send a second post of pictures.

So on to the updates!!!
RUSSIA:
We are a little over three weeks into our wait for a referral of Miss Hadley and I'm actually surprised at how fast the time has gone. It must have been that Florida SUN ;-) Not too much to report other than we are approx #18 on the waiting list for a little one and I'm not sure if there were any referrals over the last two weeks. So, we could (theoretically) be moving up the list but I'm not sure. We did learn that additional referrals will be coming very soon, so we are excited about that! We also learned that the wait for a little girl has lengthened from 5 months- 7months. We're not sure how or if that will affect us but that is the current status from Friday's agency update.

VIETNAM:
Matches and referrals!!! The Vietnam program continues to make progress! There were a few matches and a referral this past week- YAY!!! That's great news for in process families! We still don't know what precisely will happen after Sept 1st but as soon as we have an indication, we'll let you know. Please pray for the families and children affected.

BABY ROOM UPDATE:
Slowly but surely I am making progress on Hadley's room!!! I; being the goofy perfectionist that I am decided that the stripes that Kristen and I painted on the wall were not quite dark enough (pink). Sooooo, I took it upon myself to paint them a darker pink...OH SO FUN! I'm not sure what possessed me to do such a thing but off I went!! Well, I have about 2/3 of the striping done and it really does look nice. The previous pink was so light it really looked white to everyone who saw it :( Anyway, this weekend I will be finishing the task of painting pink stripes.

Brandon (aka- daddy) took it upon himself to install a beautiful girlie chandelier in lil Miss Hadley's room. Ironically, when we were looking, he was the deciding factor on picking this particular one out. I can honestly say while he was amidst the installation he probably wished he had chosen ANY fixture BUT the one he selected. Let's just say it was an eventful installation. Brandon is about the most handy man I know but for some reason this pretty little girlie light gave him more grief than was necessary!!! We both look back to that fun day a couple of weeks ago and LAUGH!

Well that's about it for now. We'll continue to keep you all posted! Thank you for all of the nice emails and prayers! They are SO, VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!!!!

Hugs and love,
Robin and Brandon