Heather has been in Alabama one month tomorrow. Gabe and Suzette have been the coolest most understanding people regarding letting us stay here. But there was one thing I was puzzled about. The internet. There is wireless internet here, but when I tried to connect when we first came here the connection didn't work even sitting right by the router. I had told Gabe and Suzette that I was interested in computers and hoped to work in the IT industry some day, but felt pretty stupid when I couldn't get the connection to work. Well, tonight I figured out how to solve the problem. If any of you out there want to skip the technical details you can skip down to the pics below. Anyway, I decided that I would check the network settings again. Something made me wonder if perhaps trying a static ip address would work. This didn't really make sense because most soho routers use dhcp these days. But it worked!!!! I was so happy!!!! But not as happy as when I found out yesterday that our adoption was approved by Georgia and now will be approved by Alabama. We are hoping to return home sometime this week. I made arrangements with my work to be gone for the next week if necessary. My manager Thomas was really cool about the situation, and for that I am thankful not everyone would have been so reasonable. And now the star of the show, Christian:

Another batch of cute pictures.......

Here are some more cute pics of Christian. I would comment more but I don't have a lot of time and it is late..........

Sledding

My younger Sister Kari and my oldest Brother Mike convinced me to go sledding today. Mike came down from Richmond, UT and brought his three children: Mackenzy, Cory, and Dylan. Here are some pictures of the fun we had. I really didn't even want to come at first just because there is a lot to do around our house while Heather is gone, but it was really fun to see everyone.

Steven prepares for takeoff!!!!

The sled hill was near Mountain Dell Golf course, between Salt Lake and Park City

Mackenzy looks good in that hat doesn't she?

Kari and Steven

Cory taking in the moment.

I don't even remember taking this picture of Dylan but it turned out good.

Here is a little video.....

This video is one Heather took of me holding Christian the first night we got to see him. I suppose it is little moments like these that make everything worth it. We just found out tonight that there are further complications in the legal process in bringing Christian home. Apparently because the birthmother is a resident of Georgia, now completing interstate compact with Georgia as well as Alabama and Utah becomes necessary. Georgia's law recently changed January 1, 2008, in this regard. One might think because Christian was born in Alabama appeasing Georgia's law would seem unreasonable and unnecessary,(which is what I though when I caught wind of this whole ordeal)however, the law changed as a protection from certain unethical practices found with some adoption agencies in their state. This is a comforting after thought, but certainly doesn't help our plight much. Thanks everyone for your prayers.......

I thought I would upload a few more pictures of Heather, Julie and or course Christian tonight. I have found a way to make our pictures more blog friendly using Gimp, a free graphics/picture editing tool. The pictures were taking forever to upload, so by making some small changes this posting went fairly quick.

More Pics of Christian......

My Mother-in-Law Julie, flew back from Alabama today and brought back some more cute pictures of Christian. I will upload more pictures tomorrow........