GOOD NEWS!!!

So some good...no great news!!! Our passports are currently being mailed to us by Fed Ex. After many phone calls, an email to our Congressman Cleaver and Brenda (the bride to be) knowing a friend who knows Congressman Graves, we have our passport. Well we don't have them right this minute, but we do have tracking numbers!!
They were pulled, printed and shipped yesterday afternoon! And they are currently sitting in a container at the Fed Ex hub in Kansas City. So we are very relieved that they are finally within reach! They should arrive at our front door on Tuesday morning no later than 10:30am!! They'd be there sooner, but it's a holiday weekend.
I have to say I am very surprised that we are actually going to have them. Brenda (the bride to be) was able to get into contact with Congressman Graves, in her district in Missouri, or maybe just his secretary. I received an email from Graves' secretary on Thursday saying they were working on getting our passports and I guess they made a special phone call to get our passports pulled, pretty much extreme expedite!! But I'm not giving all the credit to the Congressman, especially since I have probably logged over 24 hours just on the phone with the passport agency!!! And maybe 24 of those hours, only a hour did I spend actually speaking with a human being!
I can assure you that Congressman Graves will be getting a Thank you from us, but more importantly I'm relaxing a little bit after all that hard work of consistantly pushing numbers and speaking with ignorant customer service reps. I can enjoy the rest of my time here at mom and dad's without having to worry if we would be going on or not to Jamaica.
It even came down to Chuck and Allen(the groom to be) cooking up a plan to drive to Denver Colorado on Monday so we could get an appointment at the agency on Tuesday to get our passports there! So I'm glad that we don't have to do that, b/c that's 9 hours in a vehicle with a infant and 5 adults! We would have taken Brenda and Allen's expedition. But still 9 hours in a car with Allison??? She would not be happy!!!

So I'm now just enjoying my Saturday morning. Allison is sitting on the floor playing with her Blocks and occassionally she'll look up to the TV to watch a lil bit of Dora/Diego. Backyardigans are on next so we are patiently waiting for the theme song as she just loves it! She doesn't care much about the cartoon itself, she just enjoys the music!

I put up some new photos on our Picasa Web Album, just click on the link on the right.
Hope everyone is enjoying there Memorial Day weekend!!! I'll be sure to blog on Tuesday when our passports arrive!!! Until then!