Brielle Update and Summer Photos

Well, we were fingerprinted Friday, July 15th and received our approval letter the following Thursday. We are trying to medically expedite Brielle's adoption based on her needs and it appears that things will begin speeding up here in the next few months. We made a trip to Austin on Friday to get our paperwork certified and then shipped our documents to a courier who will take the papers to the Chinese Consulate in Houston for authentication. We should be DTC (date to China) here pretty soon. John and I are totally pumped about the speed up, but we remain grounded in the fact that everything will happen in God's time.

Meanwhile, we have a few pictures to share from our mini-vacation at Rockport Beach as well as some pictures from our Austin trip where we visited with some of our adoption agency contacts. It was a fantastic visit and long overdue. We have been working with this agency for about five years now and we finally got to meet the wonderful people who have helped complete our family.

Happy Birthday Brielle!!

Brielle Update:
Happy Birthday Brielle Laymon! Today our sweet Brielle is turning 7! We were so bummed out about not sending a care package to her. We were able to send Adam a cake and presents, but we are not far along enough in her adoption to be able to do this. We still had a mini celebration here at home. We will do like we did with Adam's gifts and hold onto them until she is home. Tomorrow we have our fingerprint appointment and hopefully things will begin to move along more quickly after that. It definitely seems like things are moving along much slower this time around; however, we are more familiar with the process so we are a little more at peace with everything.

Adam Update:
Adam has had a fantastic summer. I actually taught some summer school so John was in charge of the little man during the day. He had four weeks of tennis and swimming lessons and he did awesome. He is so much better in the pool this year than last. We also have Fiesta Texas passes and Sea World passes so we have been visiting the parks here and there. We have slowed down a bit the last few weeks because of a family emergency, but we are slowly getting back into a routine. We will have to make a beach trip before the month is over or else we will all face the wrath of Adam. I am going to post some random pictures below of our summer, Father's Day (which was a blessing) and some pictures from Brielle's birthday bash. I will try to post some more next week.

Brielle's Birthday Bash!











Jordyn and Adam Making Baba breakfast for Father's Day!




Hanging out at the Gristmill in New Braunfels!





Fun in Gruene, Texas!






Tennis and Swimming!









Adam reading to his sisters.