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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Girls Weekend 2010

This was our 10th annual girls weekend!! We stayed at Leslie's cabin, took over Jed's bar, ran a meat raffle, tubed down the Namekagon River and had lots of good girlie fun!

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

About Time

We finally made it to a Twins game at the new stadium. We had amazing seats thanks to Mom and Uncle Brian!!

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Another Update

7 months down....

And the only news we have is the Ministry of Education in Ekaterinburg is being reviewed by the federal authorities. I seriously don't even know what else to say.

The situation has made me like my book find of the month even better....

Not only because it is about a Siberian Tiger (Did you know....Almost all wild Siberian tigers live the Southeast corner of Russia in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range east of the Amur River. Their former range included northeastern China and the Korean Peninsula, and as far west as Mongolia. They are the largest of the tiger species and can grow up to 13 feet in length and weigh up to 700 lbs.)

Or because it is written in Russian and English. What a fun way to introduce The Russkiy (русский) to the Russian alphabet.

But also because it is about a tiger that loses his smile and on his journey to find it realizes it is the people and places along the way that put the smile on his face. It has been very easy to lose my smile as this journey gets unbelievably, almost comically longer for our family and I am so thankful for the people who put the smile back on my face every step of the way.

We still have hope we will meet our child before the end of the year!