Still No Visas

So, here we are three weeks before we are supposed to be on our way to Saudi Arabia and we still do not have visas.  Ick.   Josh has been communicating with our relocation advisor in Houston every day in hopes of keeping the process moving along.   This is what we know for now:

* The visa application was denied because of how his position was listed.  It said "language arts" and for some reason that wasn't acceptable.

* The visa application was re-submitted sometime last week with the position changed to "teacher".

* If we don't have visas by August 7 we will most definitely be delayed.  There is a muslim holiday called Eid that begins August 7 and ends August 13.  The country pretty much shuts down for those days so getting a visa during that time won't happen.

* Our movers are coming August 7 and we will be out of our house on the 9th.  We do have family that we will be staying with in Utah and we are grateful for that.

* We are frustrated!  Especially Josh.  Being delayed has the most impact on him.  School starts on September 1 and every day that we are delayed is one less prep day for him.

So, yeah, we are really hoping we hear in the next week or so that we have the visas!  It is crazy that next week is our last full week here in WY.  I try hard not to think about leaving here because once I think about it I get too sad.  I have such great friends here and my kids have good friends.  We have really loved living here for the last nine years.

The kids and I had a really great time in Utah.  On Sunday Brigham started coughing a bit and had a fever.  By Monday morning he had gotten a little bit worse so I decided it would be best to get him seen by a doctor. Callie had also been coughing and had a sore throat so I made an appointment for both of them.  The appointment was at 2:30 in the afternoon, by 12:30 I was counting down the time to get Brigham there.  He seemed to be getting worse and worse by the minute.  His fever would not go down and he was getting lethargic.  Poor baby!  Turns out he had pneumonia, bronchitis, and ear infections in both ears.  Ugh.  It was a rough couple of days but we were very blessed to avoid the hospital.  Breathing treatments have helped keep his saturation levels high enough and I was able to keep him hydrated.  It was nice being down in Salem because my parents were so helpful so the other kids were still able to have a good time.  He is doing quite a bit better now and I think by tomorrow he will mostly be back to normal.

So anyway...  That's where we are at!  Praying we get those darn visas quick!

EDIT:  So I really don't know that much about Saudi Arabia or Muslim holidays. After I posted I got thinking that I needed to check and see what Eid actually is.  Turns out it's the break the fast holiday that is held after Ramadan and just lasts until the evening of August 8.  Because of the way the work week is though it does kind of still put us at almost a week of not being able to do anything.