The First Half of April....

Okay, where do I start. These past two weeks have flown by for me. At the beginning of April Andreas was and had been working...well, constantly. He hadn't had much family time at all. So he decided to take a long weekend starting half Thursday, April 4th thru Monday, April 8th. He took a few vacation days and we went to the house in the woods for that time. It was wonderful. Sam had been asking for pappa constantly (which means he needs some time with Eas) and he got it. Sam was so excited to have Andreas's full attention, it was really sweet to see pappa and son have so much fun together. We played, stayed in the warm sun (which we were very thankful for), built a tree house, and even swam. Yes, you read that right. There are no pictures on the blog of that actually happening, but it did. There was even ice still on the edge of the lake and I got in before Eas. He only got in because he couldn't be shown up by his American wife. It has happen folks, I am officially a viking (or an ice cube, not sure which).

Andreas and I opened Sam's sand box for the summer and Sam spent a lot of time playing and digging up cars he had buried last summer! His expression was so funny when he would find something. One or two times he asked me if it was his. He doesn't even remember everything he buried in there. We may actually find the lost ark soon.


Sam trying out the new tree house platform.

Look mom, it even has a latter. I am sure he will spend many days in this house being a pirate or playing ''hide and secret'' as he calls it.

Then of course we had Easter. We had a Maunday Thursday Service (otherwise known as Monday Thursday to Sam), a Good Friday Service, a Holy Saturday bonfire and a Sunday morning service. It was a wonderful season of remembering the Savior and worshipping him for who he is as well as what he did for our salvation.

This is the family after the Easter morning service. Sam and I decided to go Nepali for Easter. He looks so adorable.

That is my adorable Nepali!

Easter afternoon, Farmor and Farfar picked Sam up and took him to the ocean house. So Eas and I have had sometime alone. The first two days we were out at the house in the woods. We decided to plant some flowers and remove three tree stumps without any power tools, it was hard, but really kind of fun once you could see all the progress that we made. Then we have been back to work, me cleaning the house and working on adoption pictures, Eas back to all three jobs he has. We even had a date tonight!!! Life is good, but we really miss our boy! I will pick him up tomorrow morning and am looking forward to seeing him and spending time with him. However, I know he has had the time of his life with his grandparents, everytime we talk with him he has some new toy....SPOILED ROTTEN! Tis the right of the grandparents, someday I hope to do it with my grandkids also.

Quick update on our adoption. We should receive the translated homestudy tomorrow in the mail (it should have happened today, but did not... drat!!) Then all of the paperwork and pictures will go to Stockholm tomorrow and they will check everything and do what needs to be done with it. Hopefully the agency will take all the paperwork with them when they go to Nepal on April 26th. They will turn it in and we on to the next stage of adoption.... WAITING. Maybe that is the only stage of adoption, hard to say. We appreciate everyones prayers.

Hope all is well with all of you, drop us a line and let us know.

Blessings,

Laurie