We're back, slightly tanned and relaxed...

We returned Friday from a great family vacation to Puerta Valarta. We stayed at the Valarta Palace and give it a tumbs up- good food, pool, beach, accomodations and nighttime entertainment. Our only disappointment was the kids activities- they were very lacking compared to the the resort we stayed at last year.

Best Quotes- After a long day of traveling, when the imigration officer asked the kids what the best part of vacation was Paige said "watching TV" and Kyle said "eating". What??? Luckily, Ed and I enjoyed it so it was money well spent. You would think they would remember the stone necklace and turtle they had to have!!!

Photos below- Some of the other blogs I read have their photos displayed with great backgrounds so I have been inspired to try digital scrapbooking (I love one of my bloggette friends Easter photos and may need to call her for help!). Below is attempt #1. It is not exactly what I was trying to do but a decent first attempt.

Adoption News- I am very disappointed to say there is none! Our agency rep has every e-mail address I have because items with chineese characters won't go thru my work e-mail so she will usually send me updates to my personal e-mail. Therefore, I usually check my personal e-mail about a million times a day. You know the saying "The watched pot does not boil" or something like that. Anyway, we were hoping that we would get an email while on vacation about the courts since we were only checking e-mail once a day, but received no updates yet.

As I have mentioned previously, this is very frustrating and discouraging! Ed reminded me this week that we were very lucky to get a referral quicker than expected so it would be really odd (especially in international adoption- where nothing goes smoothly) to also have a quick court process. July travel seems less likely (to me) unless we are further along in the court process than we think. I am starting to cling to this hope- which I know is not at all likely but can't help it.

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