A&M Fire School Week

I am up at Texas A&M for Annual Fire School. I am teaching in Fire Officer Development 6 and Fire Prevention 7 section 2. Usually I come up for a day or two but this year I have been asked to teach all week. It's so much fun to see the people I know from all over the state of Texas. I only get to see some of these friends once or twice a year. I also get to see firefighter from the departments I have worked with over the years. That is really awesome to see them recovering from their grief of losing a fellow firefighter. It can get a little wild and crazy up here, but all and all we have a good time.


I don't have too much to report on in regards to our adoption. John and I are going to go up to the county courthouse on Friday to get our background check. Friendswood Police Dept. wouldn't do it for us because we technically don't live in the city. We live in the county. We are also going to apply for our passports too.

John received our China packet from the agency. I am so excited about it. It has all of the information we need to know about adopting from China. John said that there were newsletters in the packet too and they featured babies that have just gotten back. It's hard to imagine that we will be one of those couples one day...flying off to China to pick up our daughter. I guess we get to play the stork, only this time, instead of dropping off a baby we are picking one up.