Crazy week!

WOW! It was a pretty crazy weekend and the week will only get more jam-packed with extra-curricular sports. I don't know how most parents do it. Friday afternoon, Gabe had a cross country meet. He came in 17th and ran the mile in 6:37.80, his own personal record! THEN, at 6:00 Abi had to be at school to cheer for the Homecoming Football game. The little girls got to go out and do a couple of cheers during 1/2 time. It was a beautiful night for football! Nice and cool, lots of junk food and lots of noise. We did win, so that was a plus! Today, Jacob had a soccer game. They didn't win, but played hard. Tomorrow, both boys have games/meets out of town so we probably won't go to either. (WHEW!) Jacob has another game on Thursday and then Gabe has another meet on Saturday. Soon, we'll start Basketball with Abi. That's my nutshell weekend update.

Now for Adoption stuff!

Things are still moving pretty slow in Guatemala. We are finally seeing some more birth certificates come out of RENAP which have been there for quite some time! We know that the families are so anxious to get their hands on their babies! Pray for Guatemala as everything is still up in the air.

For those of you who don't know RENAP is an acronym for a new Civil Registry in Guatemala. Most of the small towns have RENAP and what happens is once an adoption is approved, the next step is to get a new birth certificate with the adoptive parents' last name. The attorney will send the required paperwork to the city & Providence where the child was born and then they will start the new paperwork. THEN, that city has to send it to the RENAP in Guatemala City, where it will take weeks, sometimes 4-6 weeks, to update it in the "National Registry". Then they send it back to the city of birth, where they print and certify it and give it back to the attorney. Once this process is finished, THEN we can proceed to do the passport and submit final paperwork to the embassy for the 2nd DNA and then finally pink. I hope this clears up the RENAP issue, this new process just started at the first of the year and there are still glitches!

We still do not have any information on the cases where the birth mother has not shown up. As previously posted, they have given a new date of Sept 30th to get the mothers in again. SO, we still wait until they decide what to do.

Adoption Reunion/Workshop! I think that I need to clarify, if you live out of state and still wish to come, you are not excluded!!! Please let me know. We just thought having a little get together for KS was easy to do at short notice. We still plan to have the big one in June 2009 and that is far enough in advance for many of you to make your plans to come! We are also going to see if we can get a couple more ladies to come up, but that is still in the works.