101 in 1001 update

Hope everyone that celebrated had a Happy 4th! I worked but we had a cookout and a few fireworks in the evening for my Grandpa's birthday so I did have some fun.

No stitchy update for now. I've been trying to get a stitchy pic up here at least once a week but honestly there wasn't really that much stitching, at least not too much that I can show right now. I've got a few secret projects going and they got most of the little stitching time I had this week between overtime for work and working on Ben's room. Most of his furniture is up now, we're still working on getting everything put away though. I promise more pics when that is done. And hopefully in another week or so we'll hear more about our court date. Last report from the agency said more court dates are coming after the middle of the month so keep your fingers crossed for news soon!

Since it's been neglected for quite some time I figured I ought to update my 101 in 1001. I thought of it last night when we were in Barnes & Noble checking out their DVD sale and I happened to find something I've been looking for and it was on my 101 list, yay! I was able to cross off 5 more things and am up to 31/101 things complete. When I started the list I had hoped for 50 things or more done by the deadline in Feb. 2010 and that might actually be a possibility. The list definitely hasn't ruled my life and I'm not stressing about getting it all done but it has been fun to see what I thought I was going to do and what I've actually done. I'll probably make another one when the time is up for this one. My goals have definitely changed from a couple years ago so it'll be fun to update and watch again. The list is here if you'd like to check it out.

Painting is done

And now construction begins! Nothing major but Erich is in the middle of putting Ben's bed and dresser together now that our painting projects are complete in his room. Our friend came over and finished up last night and we're very happy with the results. We think she did a great job of freehanding these guys right out of Noah's Sub.

The lighting wasn't the best in the room this morning so sorry if the details are not quite all there. I'll try to get some better pics when the room is done. We'll be taking some anyway for our album for court. The agency says that the judge likes to see pictures of the adoptive parents with the child from Trip #1 and pictures of the home and child's room there so we'll definitely be sure to include these things. I'm just happy that I can start taking everything out of the closet where it has been living while the painting was going on. You can see it all stacked up in the giraffe picture.

Not much else to share today, still not feeling great and I'm unfortunately working a bunch of hours over the next couple weeks between OT shifts for extra money and training shifts to get ready for our company's new computer system so that probably won't help. I was told by my DH to relax this morning so I think I might just do that until I have to leave for work this afternoon. Have a happy 4th if I don't make it back before then!

Pictures!

As promised I have pics. No new work on the animals this week so currently the walls in Ben's room look like this...

Our friend told us that she may decide she doesn't like what she's done and paint over these before starting again but I think they look great so far. Much, much better than anything I could have done! I can't wait to see more.

And I have a pic of QS Believe too...



No HDing in June but there may be in July!

Well, I'm still among the living and have something that sort of resembles a voice. At least the drugs make me feel better, even if I don't really sound like it yet. It was a good excuse to stitch a lot this weekend and I've got plenty of progress on QS Believe to show as soon as I get chance to scan it, probably tomorrow night.

I've also got some WIP pics of Ben's room if I can get those loaded up. I'm definitely not doing any of the painting myself, I have no drawing skill whatsoever past stick figures. Our dear friend from church, however, is in the process of freehanding an alligator next to the door of the bedroom and a pair of giraffes peeking out from behind the closet door. I owe her some awesome presents when this is done! Last time I saw the room, she had just done basic pencil outlines and painted in the darkest green for the alligator and the yellow for the giraffes but she was hoping to stop by today sometime and fill in a bit of the detail so maybe I'll be surprised when I get home from work tonight.

We have paint!

Quick post just to say that I'm alive. I have a sinus infection and no voice but I'm hanging in there and stitching quite a bit since I don't feel like doing much else at the moment. But we have paint in the baby's room. Our friend came yesterday and painted the walls and is in there now working on sketching out a couple of animals on the walls. We decided to go with yellow and green walls and a pair of giraffes on one of the green walls and an alligator on a yellow wall. Hope it turns out! I promise pics when it is done.

More QS Believe

Still plugging away on QS Believe. I'm almost back to the butterfly so I'll be stitching miles of black shortly to get the wing outline done.

Summer has finally hit, we've had high 80's and it has been humid the past couple days. Looks like that sort of weather is here to stay and will hit 90 soon so we'll be trying to keep cool as much as possible around here. All weeding and other outside activities are now either early morning or not at all, I don't do hot very well!

Not much news on the adoption to share. Haven't heard anything from the agency yet. It's been almost 2 weeks since our paperwork was sent so realistically it has probably just made it through translation and is just hitting the courts about now so we probably won't hear anything for a bit yet but we can sure hope. Last update from the agency sounds like we should still expect late July-August travel so the call is coming, just can't predict when!

It's been a busy weekend so I'm almost glad it's Monday so I can do normal weekday things again even if that does mean going to work later. We finally got someone to install the new water heater Friday which is working just fine now. I stayed home just long enough to have that done then was off for an overtime shift at work. Saturday was a bridal shower for one of my cousins who is getting married in August, right about the time we'll likely be gone so it's up in the air whether we'll actually be able to attend the wedding. And yesterday we had church, breakfast with my inlaws and yard work in the afternoon.

I need a breather so I'm taking a shower, taking a few things to the post office and then relaxing until work. Maybe I'll even get a few stitches in.

I do have an update pic of QS Believe for you. I've slowly been filling in all that confetti around the word "believe" and am picking up speed as I fill in the purple streaks heading up toward the second half of the butterfly. Better stitch fast, not too much time left now if I'm going to have a HD on this one before Ben gets home!