It's Snowing in Siberia...

Ok, that's probably not a big surprise to most of you. Actually, they don't get all that much snow here, but it's usually cold enough to freeze your baguettes off, that's a Christmas Vacation quote for those of you who didn't get it. It's not really snowing that hard, it's really quite pretty, we've gotten maybe 1/2 an inch. Anyway, today was our first court experience here, it went well. We got to the court house and had to wait for about 20-30 minutes because the judge was in a meeting when we got there. Then we went up to his chambers. It went quite well, except that he asked me where the Village of Medina, where I was born and grew up, got it's name. I considered making something up but then decided that with my luck, someone in his family moved to the US and settled in Medina and he knows the correct answer. So I decided honesty is the best policy, I have no idea. He was quite shocked that I would not know that, but it's something I've never really thought about. So now a homework assignment for all my family members out there, who knows the answer? I think I should find out in case the judge who hears our adoption case decides that Megan should not be a part of a family that wouldn't know a simple thing like that. Anyway, all in all it went quite well, at the end he said the magic words. "We will accept your petition for adoption", now we wait to find out when our adoption hearing will be. Hopefully it will be this week. Patty, one of the other people here adopting with us also turned in her petition to adopt her son Alec and hers was also accepted. We then went to visit Megan again. She was as cute as ever, for some reason we didn't take as many pictures today, we'll have to make up for that tomorrow.

Then we went to lunch and Inna got a call while we were there and Michael and Theresa, one of the other couples here with us have their court hearing scheduled for tomorrow morning at 10:00. That was very exciting news since they petitioned the court for their adoption last Wed and had been waiting on pins and needles. So we had to have a vodka toast for them, this was after we had a vodka toast for ours and Patty's successful court experiences!

Anyway, that's about it, we went and did a little shopping after lunch and now are relaxing at the apartment watching it snow outside.

Enjoy today's pictures of Megan: