August and September in a Flash

Don't worry! We're still chugging along! We've been plowing through so much, in fact, that we forgot to take time to update you all.

August:
- Leah and Jonathan, some of our best friends, got married.
- The items stored up for the garage sale doubled.
- Some friends from Estonia came to stay with us, and brought their adorable baby girl. 
- Drew turned 30! We had a great time celebrating with friends and family.
- I babysat for our friends, and Sherlock was very jealous of the sweet, tiny baby.
- We applied for our travel visas.
- We had to do extra medical check-ups to add to our home study. (We braved needles for our Little Man!)

September:
- Our visas arrived in the mail.
- Drew survived the first football game of the season.
- Our home study was finally completed and approved.
- Our church held a special service at a local water park, and we had a great time. We can't wait to bring Little Man along for the next one!
- The adoption law changed in Little Man's country, so we now have to jump through some extra hoops before we can wrap up. (This was a great source of stress for me, while we waited to try to figure out what the new law would mean for our process. Things have settled down now, and we have a plan for how to proceed. I love a good plan.)
- I traveled for work again.
- We have been sorting and purging through our own home in preparation for the garage sale.
- Little Man's room is slowly coming together.
- Our garage sale is set to take place Saturday, September 29. We still need to sort, prep, price and then beg some of our friends to come help us out that morning!