Hola From Guatemala

I know that many have been watching my blog for updates and I do apologize that I haven't updated until now, but unfortunately, Lili has been sick. Nothing bad, but enough of something that the pediatrician prescribed an antibiotic. She is feeling much better now.

Since she and daddy are napping at the moment, I thought I should get something posted since I've gotten a couple emails wanting to know what's going on and where the pictures are.

First of all, there won't be any pictures posted today. Since Lili was sick, we didn't get a lot of pictures taken. We'll get more this week and I hope to post a few as the week goes on. I will say that she has gotten more beautiful since January and boy does she have personality plus. I can't wait for all our family and friends to meet her.

We did get to do some traveling around Guatemala over the weekend with Lili's foster family. We visited C hichicastenago, Lake Atitlan, and Retalileu. What an awesome country!!!!! For anyone who has never visited Guatemala, I highly recommend you find the time to do so. We've only see a small portion of the country, but will definitely return for visits as Lili grows up. Not only do we want to provide her with an opportunity to get to know her birth country, but there is so much more that we want to see ourselves.

Spending time with Lili's foster family over the weekend was awesome as well. Not only did Lili hit the jackpot with this family, but we did as well. We have not only adopted Lili, but we have adopted her foster family as well and look forward to staying in contact with them and seeing them on future visits to Guatemala.

Today we're just spending the day relaxing from our weekend trip. Tomorrow morning is our Embassy appointment, Wednesday we pick up Lili's visa and Thursday morning we leave for home. In between all of this we will be spending more time with the foster family and shopping at the market in Guatemala City. Another highlight of our trip is that Lili's birth mother has agreed to meet us. She lives not too far outside Guatemala City and will be coming into the city tomorrow afternoon. I have a list of questions for her and plan on video taping the meeting, with her permission of course. Having this information and video for Lili will be priceless so I hope everything works out.

I know this barely skims the surface of our trip so far, but I wanted to at least touch base with everyone and will post more as I find time during the week.