Movember

November is the "month of the mustache", hence the name Movember...brilliant! During this month, men grow their mustaches to raise awareness and funds for men's health, specifically prostate and testicular cancer. Rob found out about this charity mid-month last year and refused to grow out the mustache late. Since then he couldn't wait for November 1, 2012 to arrive. He put together a group of 10 of his co-workers to grow out their mustaches for a good cause. On the first day of November, they all shaved and soon after, the mustache growing frenzy began. Today, thankfully, is the last day. I am very proud of my hubby. I will admit however, that I am not the biggest fan of the mustache :{.

Only 6 out of the 10 guys were present for the final picture.

6 Fun Facts About This Picture

1. Rob is the guy wearing the white shirt.

2. The fourth guy from the left, you know, the one with the paper mustache taped to his face, found out that he cannot grow a mustache. But he sure did grow a beard. 

(Please zoom in and check it out. According to Rob the paper mustache was falling and that explains why he looks like he is about to sneeze.)

3. The fifth guy from the left came up with the idea to pose.

4. The first guy on the right cut out the first guy on the left's knee by trying to edit the picture.

5. The first guy decided he likes the mustache and will keep on sporting it.

6. Although they look upset and borderline scary, there was a lot of giggling during the photo shoot.

Home Study Update

We had our home study update interview today. We spread out all of our chores through out the week to avoid an all nighter and an I-think-I-will-pass-out feeling like last time.

 Santa came early this year and got me a Crockpot on Sunday. Perfect timing, right? I could cook tons of food and just eat that for dinner all week long. I mean, this would save us time and I could clean every day after work without wearing myself out. One of the main reasons why I always wanted a Crockpot was to just throw raw food in it, continue with life and then hours later...tada! dinner is ready. So by Monday I had all of the necessary ingredients to make a delicious chicken in pineapple juice and brown sugar. A sour, burnt chicken smell woke us up on Tuesday morning. Seriously guys, my house STILL smells like burnt chicken. We could even smell it on our clothes at work!  

After some much needed practice, I am sure I will love it.

No stress right? Today, we both woke up at 6 a.m. and started cleaning our already clean house. Rob went a little above and beyond. He organized the garage as soon as he woke up. As I was making our bed a faint smell of vinegar hit my nose. Sniff, sniff. I walked over to where I heard some hard scrubbing and there was Rob scrubbing the hard water stain (a tiny one) in the guest bathroom with vinegar.

Is this not the cleanest toilet you have ever seen?

 So our house smelled like burnt chicken and vinegar. I took a shower and of course got shampoo in my eyes. Seriously, ouch! I think the last time that happened to me was when I was eight years old. I looked like I had some sort of pink eye. I get out of the shower and could not find my husband. I looked and looked and sure enough find him outside in his pajamas, wearing his fleece jacket with the windex bottle and paper towels cleaning the windows. He jumps in the shower and I decide to put some music videos on to lighten the mood:

Me (yelling): "Babe! What channel is Fuse on?!"

Rob: "What toothbrush do I use?!" (BTW for the last ten years we have always bought a blue and a pink toothbrush)

Me: "What?! No, what channel is Fuse on?!"

Rob: "Why do you want to watch the news?!"

By this point I gave up and looked it up. By 11 a.m. we were ready to go. We kept asking each other "Are you nervous? Don't be nervous, I am not nervous." Of course we were nervous! Before the social worker arrived, we started acting extremely silly. For some reason we started jumping up and down like soccer players before a big game. We then started walking like robots all over the house. Until finally we decided to sit on the rug and watch music videos so we wouldn't be sweaty and out of breath when she arrived. To be more exact, the "Top 100 Bangin' Bodies" videos. We then decided to download the TimerCam app and take a picture of ourselves.

We realized 5 seconds does not give you enough time to pose and look nice.

But 10 sort of does.

Finally, the interview began at 12:33 p.m. and ended at 1:21 p.m. It was not bad at all...again. We knew that too, I don't know why we stress ourselves out. On the plus side, my house is already clean for our Thanksgiving dinner and we are in the process of being approved to adopt siblings or an older child :) :). 

We love you son (or son and daughter)!

Fifteen Months

Months on the wait list:

 Current longest waiting family has been waiting for (months): 

29

We are about number 67 on the list and 56 on the single child list.

We hit the 15-month mark on Sunday. I am not going to lie but this month was not an easy one for me. I did not feel like going out or talking to anyone but my husband. Let me tell y’all, he is amazing. He has been laying with me on the couch, sometimes all day, watching Netflix and just letting me have my boo hoo moments. Yes, moments not moment (there were a few). The thing is that I really miss our son. I don’t know if he has been born yet or what kind of hardships his family might be facing. I don’t know when we will meet him. I don't know how he is doing. I just feel so incomplete without him. What I do know however, is that he is in God’s hands and I trust that He will assure him that we love him very much and we will be together soon. I know He is also watching over his beautiful family.

Now that I am done venting, let me y'all how we celebrated the big 1-5. We woke up and we cooked what each one of us was craving for breakfast. Rob had scrambled eggs with leftover fajita from the night before and I had pancakes.

This waiting mom does NOT wash dishes on Sundays.

 I have to show off my cute coffee mug

Thanks Danni!

We then started working on the puzzle that we bought the day before at Half Price Books.

After that we layed on the couch yet again and around seven o’clock, Rob basically shook me and said “c’mon, we are going out. Take a quick shower”. I obeyed and we decided to go to Wine 101, a small wine bar not too far from our house. It was perfect! It was extremely romantic and delicious. Have I mentioned that I love cheese? Really? I haven’t? Well, I loooove cheese. We had the cheese tour with some wine. 

Plus olives, artichokes, grapes, and french bread.

We sat outside by a small fountain surrounded by oak trees and perfect weather.

I really don't know what I would do without this man in my life. I love him so so much.

 Happy fifteen months waiting!!!