June!!!!!

On June 30, 2006 at 6:00 am we “turned over” the most amazing gas station we have ever built. It is the Speedway station on Milham Avenue just down from Westnedge in Portage. We started this job on May 9, which makes this a 52 day job, and as far as we know; a World Record Built Gas Station!!! This job went so fast that our subcontractors didn’t even have time to bill us! Today, July 4th, we are trying to pay them so we can get waivers, so we can get paid!













We also said goodbye to some very dear friends! Anthony and Lianro, who are moving to Florida, where Anthony will be a pastor, and Lianro a school psychologist! We are going to miss them so much! They are such fun and wonderful friends! The folks in Florida are really lucky!!!













Last week, Jerry’s sister, Terri and the kids came up to visit, Greg couldn’t come. We are going to Chicago for a couple days this week. Gotta’ visit the American Girl Place and of course the Lego Store!!! The guys, Jim, Jerry and Robby, are going to go to a White Sox game, while we girls, Ruth, Terri, Christel, and Maggie have dinner at the American Girl Café. We are going to have fun!!! Maybe I will get a glimpse of the Chinese Consulate office!















On the Adoption front:
We have not heard anything from Kazakhstan yet!!! We are getting anxious!! Our Dossier has been there for over 9 weeks! We thought we would hear something at 4-6 weeks…



On June 26, our Dossier was complete for China! It was a beautiful package of paper!!! We Fed-Exed our “paper baby” to World Partner Adoption, so they could check everything and get it out to Faith International so they can send it to China!!! We are so excited!!! Our 171H (the approval from Homeland Security to bring an orphan into the USA) even had approved us for twins!!! Oh that would be amazing!!! Probably won’t happen though… but we will see in about 12 months!! This is going to be one long pregnancy!!!!!