Update

I saw that it has been since May since we updated our blog.

Mark's mom died of cancer on July 28. It has been a tough time for our family but we're getting through as best we can. It is especially tough on Mark because he and his mom worked together at the newspaper for 13 years. They were especially close.

We got fingerprinted again at USCIS on Sept. 17 in Fort Smith, AR as our I-171H expired on Sept. 25. Our social worker took care of sending our home study there and we should be getting our new paperwork soon! At least it wasn't as stressful as meeting the deadline back in April 2007.

We continue to think about how our lives will change when we get Mary Elisabeth. We've lost two parents -- Linda's father and Mark's mom. In fact, Linda's dad only knew one of his grandchildren as he died in the early 1980s when Linda was in college. We are going to make sure that Emmy knows her grandparents inside and out!

We've both got birthdays coming up. I guess we'll enjoy them!

Thanks for checking us out.

Mark and Linda