Monday

Today has been spent at the apartment.  It is a cold, cloudy kind of day.  Good day to get alot of school done with Ashley.  We have been pretty busy up until today with all the adoption process and now we have come to the wait time.  Our paperwork was submitted in court today to ask for a court date for the actual adoption to take place. We will now wait 2 weeks for the next court date.  This will be a long 2 weeks, but we can go and visit the girls every day if we choose after 3p.m. and then can bring them home with us for the weekend. Tonight our friend Kyle has invited us over for dinner with some of his missionary friends.  Sounds like fun!  We have found a church that we can walk to that we feel right at home.  There is a missions team of 4 young adults here at the church from Canada, so we can actually talk to them!!!  They are here ministering and teaching English.  We took the girls to church on Sat. night (they have church on Sat. so they can help other churches on Sun.) and they seemed to fit right in.  After church everyone hung around for tea, cookies, games, and music.  Alina loves to sing and has a fantastic voice, she joined right in.  Everyone at church thought they were Americans.  I guess that is good. 
We have no t.v. or radio so we have alot of time to talk and play games as a family.  We played Uno with the girls and all had a good time. I have already read 2 books and I never read at home.  Thanks to Tracy Tuerk who sent us some books and our friend in Kiev Marianna.  Loved the book on the Ukraine people!