Tahlia got to meet her brothers and sister and cousins, aunts and uncles and nana and pop-pop and Grandma Pat yesterday via skype!! I took pics!! She knows how to wave "hi" and "bye".....SKYPE IS AWESOME!!!!She certainly has a lot of family waiting to love all over her!!!!**update on the kiddies at home: they are... Continue Reading →
We got our daughter!!!!!!
We are standing in the middle of a miracle....PRAISE THE LORD!!! She is ours forever! We are so grateful....thank you for your prayers, we feel each and every one!!Our day started with an early 4 am wake-up.....yeah, we were excited!!! We then had breakfast, went to the bank and got LOTS of money (orphanage donation)....it... Continue Reading →
8 hours till our worlds are changed…..(a letter to Tahlia)
Sweet one, your daddy and I are up at 5am...pacing the rooms, laughing, and finding stuff to do....and mostly praying. You could say it's jet lag, but really it is excitement, nerves, and anticipations to finally embrace you, the one we've have been praying for for so long. My heart feels so many emotions as... Continue Reading →
STRESS!!!!! But, we are here…Thank GOD!
What started as a fairly uneventful, and lovely early morning with a buffet breakfast, interactions with new fellow-adopting friends, nice ride to the airport...turned quite stressful once we hit the airport!! We believe God is constantly reminding us that He is in control and we are ever-reliant on His power and faithfulness to get us... Continue Reading →
China: Day 3 (Breakfast buffet, The Great Wall, Chinese dining, Summer Palace)
WOW! What a day...... we just got home (4:37 pm) and our day was full of sightseeing!First, let me say that we have less than 48 hours till we get Tahlia!!!! Can you believe it, cause we can't!!!! :)You will see in our photo album that our day started in the wonderful breakfast buffet. I... Continue Reading →
China day 2 sight seeing and pizza hut!
Three more sleeps for Tahlia in her orphan's crib!!! In the meantime we have been getting acquainted with her birth land.This morning we all popped up at 4:45 am and we were wide awake! It was pretty funny! We were both hungry and excited to go sightseeing!At 6:45 we went down to the breakfast buffet... Continue Reading →
WE MADE IT!!! ON CHINA SOIL!!!
and JET LAG IS KICKING OUR BUTTS!!!!! Here are some pics and below is a post that I wrote on the plane.Our guide picked us up at the airport and drove us to our hotel. It is SOOOO Cold here!!! Our room is nice, its a corner room....13th floor! LOL...great view. We are zombies....Isabella and... Continue Reading →
itinerary and prayer requests!
Update: thank you for your prayers for health. We all fell like dominoes in the course of 4 days, but, thank God, we are all now well!!!! The antibiotics did their job, and God answered our prayers.Wow, I can not believe the day has come. We get to go get our daughter in China and... Continue Reading →