Our Dossier is in D.C.

So much has happened since my last post. I guess that is what happens when you wait a month and a half! On Tuesday, April 1st,(April Fool's Day no less), we received our I-171H in the mail. We were elated. The kids wanted to know if that meant we could go get our baby now. Bret and I celebrated by going out for a celebratory dinner and a movie, which we do once in a blue moon. We saw "Run, Fatboy Run" which was so cute. So the there we were with our home study done, our fingerprints done, our I-171H in our hands and our dossier complete - except for one little part - the semi-formal photo. Why wasn't it done already? Why did I have such trouble getting that photo taken? Here we were, all ready, except that pesky photo was missing. You'd think at that point I would have run into the house, showered, put on a nice outfit, make-up and sat down to have Lauren take the photo, but I didn't. I was having such a mental block about that photo! I am sad to say that by the time the photo had been taken, printed and the whole package had been approved by CHI, we were at the 23rd of April.

On April 24th, Av and I drove to the Hyatt in Sacramento. We swan in the pool, ordered room service and watched a movie in our beds. First thing in the morning we walked past the Capital Building to the Secretary of State's office and had our dossier authenticated. What a wonderful feeling! It was a great little trip, too. The funny part was that on the way to Sacramento I turned on our navigation system to get us there and find the hotel. Something was wrong with it, and no matter what I did, including turning off the car and restarting it, I could not get it to turn off. The last place we had used it was driving to San Francisco. So, the whole two hour drive to Sacramento the voice kept telling me to get off the freeway and make a u-turn. I could not turn it off, turn down the volume, nothing. It was crazy-making - but it also makes a heck of a story!