Just wanted to get on and say Happy New Years to everyone. Hope everyone has a safe and fun holiday. We miss everyone and hope to see you all soon. Sabina is doing good. We won't see her for two day because of there holiday here, but we will be back to visiting on Friday. It's very loud here at night. They light off fireworks for the holiday like we light up our houses. they do it at all times of the day and night. I think we are the only american in this city at the time. We are going to the market mall to get Sabina an outfit for when she comes home in Feb. Well be safe and we will talk to you next year. LOL
Beckie and Brian
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Sunday, December 28, 2008
20 days and and counting....hopefully
Hello everyone,
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Anyways just wanted to give you a short update. We found out Friday that the courts here close down from Dec 23 to Jan 5th, so our paperwork will not be looked at until then. After the judge looks at the paperwork she will set up a date for precourt and hopefully court. We don't think we will be home before the 16th of Jan. There laws and procedure are so diffrent then ours at home it is hard to understand there thinking, but we are here and can't leave until after court. Missing Caden and our families and friends is the hardest thing. We can't just pick up the phone and call someone to talk or drive to the mall. Being stuck in this apartment is hard. Lucky for me i sleep until like 11:30 am everyday and by the time i get up and around it is almost 2pm. So my days are going by pretty fast. We have gotten out and walked around there town alittle. Not a whole lot to do. They have market malls but its not like we are here to shop. Anyways i didn't want this to sound like a pity party because its not, we are fine we have each other and we do get to visit Sabina everyday. And by the way she is doing fine nothing has really changed. We are on a 20 day count down, we are hoping to leave in like 20 days. Anyways have a good New Years. Love and miss you all. Talk to you later.
Beckie and Brian
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Anyways just wanted to give you a short update. We found out Friday that the courts here close down from Dec 23 to Jan 5th, so our paperwork will not be looked at until then. After the judge looks at the paperwork she will set up a date for precourt and hopefully court. We don't think we will be home before the 16th of Jan. There laws and procedure are so diffrent then ours at home it is hard to understand there thinking, but we are here and can't leave until after court. Missing Caden and our families and friends is the hardest thing. We can't just pick up the phone and call someone to talk or drive to the mall. Being stuck in this apartment is hard. Lucky for me i sleep until like 11:30 am everyday and by the time i get up and around it is almost 2pm. So my days are going by pretty fast. We have gotten out and walked around there town alittle. Not a whole lot to do. They have market malls but its not like we are here to shop. Anyways i didn't want this to sound like a pity party because its not, we are fine we have each other and we do get to visit Sabina everyday. And by the way she is doing fine nothing has really changed. We are on a 20 day count down, we are hoping to leave in like 20 days. Anyways have a good New Years. Love and miss you all. Talk to you later.
Beckie and Brian
Friday, December 26, 2008
Ok so i wasnt there, but these are pictures of our Caden at Beckie's parents house. My mom and dad posted them for me. Happy New Years everyone.
Hi Mom....This is caden talking to his mom christmas day. LOVE YOU MOM.
ok, So i'm a ham bone...but hey, I got the Junior hat on.
Woo Hoo.....we're going to be playing WII with my Mom and Dad
Ok, so i had to show it off again. But hey, i'm cute.....Thursday, December 25, 2008
WE ARE BACK ON LINE PEOPLE
Hi everyone,
Sorry we have not wrote in a while, our internet was down. Anyways not a lot has changed. We have been visiting Sabina everyday. She is doing good and starting to really warm up to Brian. She can say a couple words in English but she will just forget when we leave so we don’t push to hard. We got out of the apartment today and walked around town. They don’t celebrate Christmas on Christmas so everything was open. They celebrate on the 31st and the 1st. We went out for dinner at the Beer Pub, cool place. We hope you all are having a wonderful holiday and we wish you all a Merry Christmas. We sure do miss home today. Brian is doing everything possible to keep my mind off of Christmas and what is happening back at home. I hear you all are getting a butt load of snow, that’s cool. We don’t have any here and they said that is why it is so cold. Yesterday was like -19C. Freezing out. The sun doesn’t come up until 10:00 am and it starts to go down at like 4:30 pm so we don’t get much sun time around here. K well I will get you all get back to your families. We love all of you and miss everyone. Talk to you later
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Love Beckie and Brian
Sorry we have not wrote in a while, our internet was down. Anyways not a lot has changed. We have been visiting Sabina everyday. She is doing good and starting to really warm up to Brian. She can say a couple words in English but she will just forget when we leave so we don’t push to hard. We got out of the apartment today and walked around town. They don’t celebrate Christmas on Christmas so everything was open. They celebrate on the 31st and the 1st. We went out for dinner at the Beer Pub, cool place. We hope you all are having a wonderful holiday and we wish you all a Merry Christmas. We sure do miss home today. Brian is doing everything possible to keep my mind off of Christmas and what is happening back at home. I hear you all are getting a butt load of snow, that’s cool. We don’t have any here and they said that is why it is so cold. Yesterday was like -19C. Freezing out. The sun doesn’t come up until 10:00 am and it starts to go down at like 4:30 pm so we don’t get much sun time around here. K well I will get you all get back to your families. We love all of you and miss everyone. Talk to you later
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Love Beckie and Brian
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
This one is of our Apt. We're on the 5th floor.and no elevators. No it's not Hilton but it's home for now. This isnt's kansas either. TOTO
This one is of our view ..... the small little sheds are actually houses. the big ones are the houses for the richer ones. looking forward to coming home!!!
Dinner anyone? Yep these are how their dogs are packaged. Like i said before....cant wait for a whopper from BK...lol
Hi all...
Thank you all for the name suggestions. We were told we have until Wednesday to decide if we are going to change her name. Alot of people have been asking for details so here goes. This is an average day, wait this is all we do everyday. We normally wake up around 10:00am and eat cereal. They have cherrios and milk, there milk is warm and in a box but we just put it in the fridge and brian being the milk lover he is says its normal. Then we both take our bath/shower. The bathtub is huge and it doesnt have a shower head so we sit and take a bath and shower at ones. The water is nasty brown. I will get a picture for you later. Then we sit around the apartment until 3:30 when our coordinator picks us up to bring us to the baby house. We visit with Sabina for 1 1/2 hours a day. We go to her group room and we bring her to a little play room to visit. The divide the kids up according to age and put them in certain groups. After the visit we either go back to the apartment or we go to the market and get some food and supplies. Then we normally come to the apartment and cook dinner and then we get on the computer and check emials and the blog. We watch movies some night or we just sit and watch tv which is in Russian. Then around 11:00 pm we go to bed. That about sums up our days. We have been doing the same thing day in and day out since last Friday. I am sending pictures to my parents and they will post them on here as they get them.
All i can say is life is very diffrent here, but in someways the same. They told us when we got here that it is legal to grow pot but it is not legal to have it in your pocket, we laughed. She told us the pot just grow, they don't plant it or do it on purpose. Anyways i will save some for tomowow. Talk later
Beckie and Brian
Thank you all for the name suggestions. We were told we have until Wednesday to decide if we are going to change her name. Alot of people have been asking for details so here goes. This is an average day, wait this is all we do everyday. We normally wake up around 10:00am and eat cereal. They have cherrios and milk, there milk is warm and in a box but we just put it in the fridge and brian being the milk lover he is says its normal. Then we both take our bath/shower. The bathtub is huge and it doesnt have a shower head so we sit and take a bath and shower at ones. The water is nasty brown. I will get a picture for you later. Then we sit around the apartment until 3:30 when our coordinator picks us up to bring us to the baby house. We visit with Sabina for 1 1/2 hours a day. We go to her group room and we bring her to a little play room to visit. The divide the kids up according to age and put them in certain groups. After the visit we either go back to the apartment or we go to the market and get some food and supplies. Then we normally come to the apartment and cook dinner and then we get on the computer and check emials and the blog. We watch movies some night or we just sit and watch tv which is in Russian. Then around 11:00 pm we go to bed. That about sums up our days. We have been doing the same thing day in and day out since last Friday. I am sending pictures to my parents and they will post them on here as they get them.
All i can say is life is very diffrent here, but in someways the same. They told us when we got here that it is legal to grow pot but it is not legal to have it in your pocket, we laughed. She told us the pot just grow, they don't plant it or do it on purpose. Anyways i will save some for tomowow. Talk later
Beckie and Brian
Thursday, December 18, 2008
names
Brian and i were looking up some name trying to decide if we want to change her name. Here are a few names we keep coming back to. Let us know what you think and what you think she looks like. Thanks for your help.
Mia
Meagan
Leah
or just leave Sibina
Mia
Meagan
Leah
or just leave Sibina
Ok here it is....
Here is the picture of Sibina. Again we are not sure if we are keeping her name or not. We also don't know alot about her. the lady that has access to the files won't be in until next week. Our visitation is up next week Thursday. Then we have pre-court at some point the next week, then we have court the week after that. All in all we will be home hopefully no later then Jan 9th. We need american food!!! MMMMMM BK Woppers!!.
I will have to have dad post the picture it is not working from here.
I will have to have dad post the picture it is not working from here.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
We have decided and it will be a shock to most
Hi everyone,
I know yesterday we made it sound like we had our mind made up and even as early as this morning we thought we did. We went to the baby house today to bond with the youngest little girl. We played with her for a good 2 hours and we both left the place feeling very unsure about our decision. We went back to the apartment and called home. After talking to my parents and doing a lot of talking to each other, we decided we had to really rethink things. Brian and I asked ourselves what we seen when we closed our eyes. When we both opened them we said we see a little girl running to the pool with Caden or running around the yard playing with Caden. Not me changing diapers and tending to a baby while Caden plays by himself. If we would really be honest with ourselves the reason we started this adoption was so Caden had someone closer to his age that he could play with and be close to when he got older. If we brought home a baby he wouldn’t be able to play with her for a long while and there would be a huge age gap. With all that being said we chose to go with the 2 ½ year old. When they brought the 2 girls out to us the oldest one just walked in and had the biggest smile on her face, she melted our hearts. We should have listened to our hearts right then and there. We came here thinking we wanted the youngest one we could get, but really the more we talked about it the more we realize with our life style and Caden she will be the best choose for us. Her given name here is Sabina. We have not decided to weather or not to keep that yet. The name fits her but still unsure. When you all get to meet her, she will melt your heart like she did ours.
I know yesterday we made it sound like we had our mind made up and even as early as this morning we thought we did. We went to the baby house today to bond with the youngest little girl. We played with her for a good 2 hours and we both left the place feeling very unsure about our decision. We went back to the apartment and called home. After talking to my parents and doing a lot of talking to each other, we decided we had to really rethink things. Brian and I asked ourselves what we seen when we closed our eyes. When we both opened them we said we see a little girl running to the pool with Caden or running around the yard playing with Caden. Not me changing diapers and tending to a baby while Caden plays by himself. If we would really be honest with ourselves the reason we started this adoption was so Caden had someone closer to his age that he could play with and be close to when he got older. If we brought home a baby he wouldn’t be able to play with her for a long while and there would be a huge age gap. With all that being said we chose to go with the 2 ½ year old. When they brought the 2 girls out to us the oldest one just walked in and had the biggest smile on her face, she melted our hearts. We should have listened to our hearts right then and there. We came here thinking we wanted the youngest one we could get, but really the more we talked about it the more we realize with our life style and Caden she will be the best choose for us. Her given name here is Sabina. We have not decided to weather or not to keep that yet. The name fits her but still unsure. When you all get to meet her, she will melt your heart like she did ours.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Day 5 (I think)
Hi everyone,
We have been to the baby house and we have been given two children to choose from. I know that sounds weird to those of you who have not been through this. One of the little girls is 2 ½ and the second one is 1 ½. Ok the oldest is smart and cute. She can walk and talk (not that we understand her). She is Eurasian. She is older then we wanted, but I could see her and Caden getting along. On the other hand there is the youngest one that my heart went out to. She is very behind and she has very lazy eyes, a lot like Caden had but worse. She can pull herself up on a couch, she can copy us if we clap or do a movement, she follows object well. She babbles like a baby, so she can’t talk yet and she don’t walk. She is blond hair, blue eyes. She does a lot of things Caden did when we adopted him. We were told she sleeps well and eats well. We have had two days to decide and tomorrow they are going to ask for our answer. We are pretty sure we will choose the youngest one but chose to sleep on it. The youngest one has yet to be picked for adoption and they said it was because of her eyes being crossed. We had to deal with Caden’s eyes and his medical issues, I am sure we can handle hers. I just hold her and wonder what would happen to her if we don’t adopt her. Will she live in an orphanage all her life because someone couldn’t deal with her crossed eyes and her delay. I just think with a little attention and love and she will be keeping up with Caden in know time. With Caden he picked us and I came over here thinking that would happen again, but I also have read a lot of things on the internet that that kind of bond happens very seldom. I am positive we will make the right choice, it’s not like we can put her on e-bay if she don’t work out. LOL. Talk to you later
Love us
We have been to the baby house and we have been given two children to choose from. I know that sounds weird to those of you who have not been through this. One of the little girls is 2 ½ and the second one is 1 ½. Ok the oldest is smart and cute. She can walk and talk (not that we understand her). She is Eurasian. She is older then we wanted, but I could see her and Caden getting along. On the other hand there is the youngest one that my heart went out to. She is very behind and she has very lazy eyes, a lot like Caden had but worse. She can pull herself up on a couch, she can copy us if we clap or do a movement, she follows object well. She babbles like a baby, so she can’t talk yet and she don’t walk. She is blond hair, blue eyes. She does a lot of things Caden did when we adopted him. We were told she sleeps well and eats well. We have had two days to decide and tomorrow they are going to ask for our answer. We are pretty sure we will choose the youngest one but chose to sleep on it. The youngest one has yet to be picked for adoption and they said it was because of her eyes being crossed. We had to deal with Caden’s eyes and his medical issues, I am sure we can handle hers. I just hold her and wonder what would happen to her if we don’t adopt her. Will she live in an orphanage all her life because someone couldn’t deal with her crossed eyes and her delay. I just think with a little attention and love and she will be keeping up with Caden in know time. With Caden he picked us and I came over here thinking that would happen again, but I also have read a lot of things on the internet that that kind of bond happens very seldom. I am positive we will make the right choice, it’s not like we can put her on e-bay if she don’t work out. LOL. Talk to you later
Love us
Sunday, December 14, 2008
2nd day
Today we did nothing. We sat around the apartment and just chilled. Tomorrow at 3pm we are going to the orphange and hopefully we will be able to post a picture then. Caden if your uncle carl is reading this we love you. Talk to you then
Beckie
Beckie
Thursday, December 11, 2008
here and alive
Hi all,
We arrived in Almaty last night at 3:00 am. We went to a really nice hotel and got about 4 hours of sleep. Could use way more then that. Anyways we are heading to the orphange city Kostanai at 2pm this afternoon. Right now it is 10:45 am Fridayand your time is 11:40 pm Thursday. Very confusing, we have been up 34 hours straight. We will be here for about 23 days and then get to go home. We have decided if we cam come up with the money, that we are going to have her escorted back home. this trip was really hard and tiring on us. i cant do this again. I know it will be worth it but for the money it is also worth having her brought to us. Well we will talk to you later. Love you Caden
Love Beckie and Brian
We arrived in Almaty last night at 3:00 am. We went to a really nice hotel and got about 4 hours of sleep. Could use way more then that. Anyways we are heading to the orphange city Kostanai at 2pm this afternoon. Right now it is 10:45 am Fridayand your time is 11:40 pm Thursday. Very confusing, we have been up 34 hours straight. We will be here for about 23 days and then get to go home. We have decided if we cam come up with the money, that we are going to have her escorted back home. this trip was really hard and tiring on us. i cant do this again. I know it will be worth it but for the money it is also worth having her brought to us. Well we will talk to you later. Love you Caden
Love Beckie and Brian
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
were off
2 hours and counting. We got all of our papers last night and now we are packing up the truck so we can leave. Wish us luck and keep us in your thoughts.
Love,
Beckie
Love,
Beckie
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Here we go again
We received some good news yesterday. Our agent called and said our LOI arrived and they want us to travel soon. I sent out for our visa today and booked our flight for next Wednesday. We leave Grand Rapids at 1:54 p.m. We are hoping to be back on Dec 29Th. I will try to keep everyone posted. Will write later
Beckie
Beckie
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