Friday, June 26, 2009

Immigration woes

So this week Ionut and I have had to do a lot of research on immigration and I still have lots of questions. The problem is that the U.S. allows dual citizenship but Romania doesn't. That means that when the time comes Ionut is going to have to choose between becoming American and getting the benefits that come with it, or keeping the citizenship of his home land and not having full benefits here. Originally we were going to have him keep his Romanian citizenship and just be a legal resident here, but now there's another situation to factor in. Ionut's sister, Alina, is the only one in her family who hasn't moved to America, and the poor girl is all alone. Of course she wants to reunite with her family here, which is what we want too, but we can only help her if Ionut is an American citizen. Even then the waiting list is a few years because over 1.5 million siblings are on the waiting list, while only 65,000 can come each year. I understand that the law needs to be strict, but right now it just stinks. It seems like families should be able to reunite without so much hassle. Ugh. Other than that life is great. We're counting down the days to our visit in San Diego and can't wait to see everyone.
Sidenote: Even if boys say they're not interested in things like blogs, I think secretly they are. I showed Ionut ours and because he didn't like our background, we had to spend an hour looking through hundreds of them so we could find one we agreed on. He'll probably never see the blog again, but he still wanted to make sure that it represented both of us. Boys...

Wednesday, June 24, 2009


Doing my best to look bad on my ATV

Ionut taking a little nap on a tree

We tried to get the lake in the background but only semi succeeded



Yep, these pictures pretty well sum up our wedding in a nutshell

Anniversary!

Tomorrow is mine and Ionut's 2 month anniversary and I'm super excited. It seems like such a short amount of time, but I love any excuse to celebrate, so celebrate we will! We're going to get some Cafe Rio (our favorite) and go eat it at the park. Then, as if that wasn't enough we are going to the dollar theatre, which will make the day complete. We live a pretty lux life :)