Crazy Week!

Hello blog followers! I hope everyone is looking forward to a short holiday week, I know we are! Between Thanksgiving and the Clemson/Carolina game, we will have a jammed pack schedule! This has been a crazy week! My 8th grade team threw me a school baby shower that was so much fun! We got lots of good stuff! Then, on Saturday, my Mom and sister threw me a shower that was fit for a Queen! They had the cutest favors...Hagen Hershey Bars! They were adorable! I have to admit that next to meeting my son, it was one of the best days I have had! I felt so special and it was so nice seeing all of my family and friends. Thank you to all of you who were able to join us at the Rose Cottage!

We are still waiting to hear about the date we will go to court. Our agency says the date is coming soon, but they believe it will be the end of December. We were expecting this and are looking forward to knowing something concrete. Please pray and cross your fingers that we will hear something this week. We are very anxious to head back to Russia to see our baby boy! What a wonderful Christmas present that would be. We will more than likely be heading over there for court, then heading back home to wait out the 10 day waiting period. It all depends on the dates.

Pray, pray, pray....

Love y'all,
Hagen's Mommy

More Waiting

Happy Tuesday everyone! I would like to wish Andy's lovely grandmother and my wonderful mother a happy birthday today and tomorrow! We are back in the waiting game again. We are now waiting on a court date. We have only been home a week and a half and we want to go back now. It is so hard to be patient when everyone wants to know! We have a few things of paperwork to get together but that should take a couple of days at most. It is getting harder to be patient when I am constantly seeing holiday commercials. Everytime I see Christmas decorations I think about his birthday and wonder if he will be home for the holidays. I know it is a long shot and we won't know a single thing until the call comes that gives us the court date. Even after the court date there is more waiting. Moscow never drops the 10-waiting period we are told, so after court we will still have 10 days before he is in our care. This entire experience has been great, but they really do mean paper pregnancy. I feel so out of control sometimes, but we feel grateful that we have so many people who are praying for us and who love us. We feel very thankful this holiday season. We would be even more thankful if our little boy was with us to celebrate! Cross fingers and start praying!

Back to reality...

Happy Friday everyone! We have been back from Russia for almost a week now and boy does it stink! We are so glad that we finally got to meet our little boy. He is the most precious baby boy we have ever seen. He has such a wonderful temperment and really enjoyed getting out of his crib to crawl around! He is definitely a mover and we will have our hands full!

It was very hard leaving him but we knew that this was part of the process. That definitely did not make it any easier. Andy and I still look at pictures daily and watch video. We have had a week to settle back into our normal routine. Andy is working a lot and I am trying to control 130 14 year olds. Everyday we miss him a little more. It is so hard to become so attached to something and then have it disappear. I am constantly wondering what he is doing or if he is doing something major that I will always miss. I am worried he will begin to walk or say his first word. He is already such a big boy but the next time I see him he will look different. I have found it very hard to concentrate at work. I am just waiting for the call that will tell us when we get our court date. I am hoping we have him before his 1st birthday (Christmas Eve), but I am trying not to get my hopes up. I can honestly say that I loved him from the moment I saw him. I can't wait to get him home!

We love all of you,

Cassidy