the other day i was going to send an email around asking everyone to pray that i would be organized enough and have the presence of mind to finish the paperwork necessary to get healthcare for kristin. i didn't, but today i went to mpf and everything went like clockwork! and if you are familiar with the military you know that is a miracle in itself! jonathan and i have both been trying for months to get pre-adoptive benefits for her, but we were getting the runaround. then jonathan took our adoption paperwork in before he left for the states. once again he got the runaround. today i went in "on a whim" to see if i could accomplish anything at all. she is now enrolled in DEERS (for you civilians, that means jonathan will get paid for having another dependent and she is privy to all the military benefits for dependents- including healthcare)! so i can call first thing monday and start setting appointments for well-baby check-ups and immunizations!!! Praise God! yippee!
but if you want, you can continue to pray that our lawyer in tennessee will figure out how to file the adoptive paperwork for us and that i will maintain the presence of mind to get her SSN and her name changed on her passport!
oh... and here's a picture just for kicks! her hair is really growing and it looks hilarious first thing in the morning!
jonathan finally got some time off - which we desperately needed since the exercise and preparation for the franklin graham festival has kept him extremely busy. so here are a few pics of our day.
for those oof you who know oki, i'll tell you that we went to the rose garden for breakfast...yum! and then we went to mihama to the beach. the weather is starting to cool off, and it was a perfect day! kristin really liked the beach this time.
