I have had a lot of time on my hands since waiting for Madison so what is a girl to do? Well....I started working on her announcements! I found these great stamps at Hobby Lobby about adoption so I decided to make my own announcements. I found cards that are like a tag you pull out. Now I only need a picture to go with it. Sure wish that would happen. Tuesday will be 16 months of officially waiting but of course I started way back in June of 2005 with the paper chase. So really we have been waiting almost two years!I know it will all be worth the wait in the end but it is getting really hard to wait, especially when China only does two days of referrals!! What's up with that?! I know she will be here before we know it and we won't have everything done like we want. I did get Madison's crib and changing table. I so want to put it in her room but we haven't finished Brian's room in the basement and I don't think he wants to sleep with a crib in his room!
A girl can never have too many Elmo's either so the other day I went to garage sales and found these three Elmos for three bucks! Who could pass them up. She now has one in every size. Every little girl loves Elmo or that is what they tell me.

Well, this is our 7th week of having snow. We have had some snow every week since the Christmas blizzard and I'm pretty much tired of it. Today started out at 4 degrees and it was bitter cold. Spring cannot get here soon enough. Most people have thier outside Christmas decorations up still because we still have 3 -4 feet of snow in our front yards! It probably won't melt until April. Hopefully the groundhog will be right in that we will have spring soon! I want to see green grass and leaves on the trees.
I am in an adoption website group and we have a secret pal gift exchange every month. My secret pal is from Canada and I recieved some nice gifts from her today. It made my Friday! I love receiving packages for Madison. We have themes every month but this month was anything we wanted. I just love the beany bear she sent. It has a cute little ladybug on it. Ladybugs are good luck for adopting families in China. I have collected several ladybug things for Madison. Her room is almost done. I have one more saying to put on one wall and some touch ups to do. It is looking soooo cute! I can't wait to get furniture in there.
Mark, Brian, and our friend Ron have been working very hard on the basement. They are done with the drywall and will get it inspected on Monday. Then it's taping, mudding, sanding, painting time! Let the fun begin!!

Here are some pictures of Madison's room. I am done with the animals
and
now I just need to paint the
other wall in her room.
I am almost
done
and can't wait to get
her crib and
other furniture in her
room. I think it turned out pretty darn cute! I can't wait for
her to be in it. I even put wooden flowers, dragonflies, butterflies,
and ladybugs on the wall to make it look 2 dimensional. Now I just have
to make a birdhouse for Owl to put in the corner. I hope she loves it!