Here are a few pictures of Madison's room so far. I am almost finished with one wall. I think it looks pretty cute. It is bright. I hope she will be able to sleep. I hope to have her room completed by the end of January and have Brian moved downstairs. We are ready to do drywall in the basement so things are progressing.

Merry Christmas!!


I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I am ready for 2007 because this is our year...the year we get Madison. Hopefully we will get her sooner than later. I am looking to a February referral and travel in April. April would be wonderful because it's my birthday and I think she would be a wonderful birthday present. April would be a good time to travel because it will be springtime. We are looking forward to a wonderful 2007!

Happy Christmas Eve to all!!
It sure doesn't seem like it's Christmas Eve. It has been a lazy day for me. Mark and Brian went to the movies and did some last minute shopping. I stayed home, baked, watched Christmas movies, cleaned, watched the Broncos, and spent time on the computer. I finally got out of my pajamas at 4:00pm! I know, why bother. I sure wish we had Madison this Christmas. I was so looking forward to a little one getting us up at 4:00am and seeing her eyes light up when she sees all those presents. Brian is not into Santa anymore and we ususally have to get him up. At least we know next year we will have a little girl running around.
It's snowing in Denver but not here. We had planned on going to Denver to see the lights at the county building but since it is snowing pretty good down there, we changed our minds. They have the lights up until the end of the stock show which is mid-January so we will see them then.
Merry Christams and Happy Holidays to all!!

Blizzard 2006
Wow! We got about 20 inches of snow the past two days. We started shoveling out yesterday... or should I say Mark and Brian did. I stayed inside where it was much warmer. They had a lot of shoveling to do. Mark helped shovel the neighbors. He had a snow blower which helped a lot. The dogs had a great time and were out there with Brian and his friend for a couple of hours. They whined when they had to come in. The dogs love the snow. The drifts were about four feet high. It was hard for Sh'Daisy to run in it but she kept up with Brian. They had a blast! We definitely will have a white Christmas. I'm sure this snow will stick around for awhile. The whole town was shut down for a couple of days. I still need to do some shopping but I think it can wait a day or two. Even the post office was shut down for two days. Oh well. Not much we can do about it. Christmas cards will be a little late. Something to look forward after Christmas! At least we got Christmas pictures taken.

Today is our one year anniversary of our log in date so we had a Red Thread picture taken. The only person missing is Madison. We will take another picture when Madison arrives. Hopefully we are only 3 -4 months away from getting her. Then the red thread connection will be complete!

We had a friend over tonight who took a lot of pictures of us for Christmas cards. He does a great job and we had a lot to choose from. Tomorrow I plan on going to get Christmas cards mailed out and send them on their way. I am a little late but oh well. Now that I am on vacation for 19 days I will hopefully be able to catch up on things. My list seems to be getting longer of things I want to get done.
The main thing I really want to get done is Madison's room. I started painting over Thanksgiving break but haven't had time since. I hope to get it done over winter break. Then I will feel we are so close to getting Madison. Today is actually one year for our log in date. Oh, how I wish we had Madison here for Christmas. God is good and she will be here soon. The wait is so long and hard but at least I know we have less days to wait now than more. At least we know we will have her this time next year.