Sounds like we might be headed home towards the end of next week! The court part is finally done and the steps that had to wait for that are the only ones left and we might be able to wrap those up by Wednesday or Thursday. We can't book our return flights until after the very last step is done though ( Read more... )

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From Gilman GirlsEstamos aqui! (We're here ( Read more... )

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From Gilman GirlsAdoption Visa ( Read more... )

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From Gilman Girls:

May 2 = Bogotá Bound!

Remember how I mentioned the immigration piece that could take up to seven weeks? And how I was hoping for a month? Check out these dates from a little form I received from immigration today:

Receipt Date: 3/26/2012
Provisional Approval Date: 4/9/2012

Two weeks and a few days in the mail!! That is ( Read more... )

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From Gilman Girls"Next month ( Read more... )

Got the pictures from Belated Gilman Family Christmas weekend from my sister-in-law today! I happened to check my Gmail on my phone at work (I don't always) and started laughing out loud at this crazy one of me and my niblings. Wil with Berkeley in a headlock totally cracks me up. Plus, Rees and Claire loved putting that disgusting Carolina ( Read more... )

Last summer when my family was on vacation, a tiny stray kitten adopted them at their lake house and my youngest brother and sister-in-law decided to bring him home. He is still smallish, not quite a year old, and VERY playful and affectionate. I wish I had gotten a video of him playing with their dog Charlie. I love to see a dog playing with a cat ( Read more... )

My brother has the Just Dance games for Wii and we played Just Dance 3 this weekend. It was SO MUCH FUN! (I actually ordered Just Dance for myself when I got back home!) In Just Dance 3, you can have four players and on some songs they're all doing something different sometimes, like in this song. I took a break after a few songs to let my nephew ( Read more... )

I was listening to the classical station coming out of my arm rest on the flight home. They were playing mostly "popular" classical songs that most people know and as we were coming in for the landing, the Hallelujah Chorus started playing. Not sure if that was intentional or not, but I laughed ( Read more... )

Wow. I must have been completely distracted this summer. I didn't even count down the days to the posting of the Bruins' 2011-2012 schedule! Didn't even think about it until just now for some reason. So... mj_notes (or anyone who wants in)... See any cities/dates that spark your interest?? I have friends in the Los Angeles/Anaheim area that I have ( Read more... )