May 2, 2008

This is my last post for now on this page. Yes, we are finally traveling on Sunday to China. We are so excited to be finally able to meet our daughter Raya. If you would like to follow our trip click on the left to follow our travel. We are going to try to post things as we get a chance.
Meet Gang, Dong Zhu
She will be 1 year old on Mar. 28th.
She is in Guangdong Province.

April 11, 2008

We have all of our needed appointments and are now waiting
to travel on May 4th-17th. Gotcha day is May 7th, that is the day we will finally get to meet Raya.

April 1

We received our Traval Approval (TA) today!
Who would have guessed that it would happen on April fools day?
Tonight our agency (Harrah's) will request a (CA) Consolate Appointment for when we are in China. This is the last appointment for when we will be in China. Once we know this date we will leave for China 2 weeks before that appointment. It takes 2 weeks in China to complete the process and come home with Raya. It usually takes 48-72 hours to receive this appointment date so I am soo excited that we will have our dates of when we will be traveling by this weekend. Wow!!
What a journey!!
Lilypie Date is set Ticker

The Loving Tree

The Loving Tree
Our First Trip to China was to Bring Home our daughter Jaime

Our Beautiful Family!!

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March 24, 2008

We decided to change the spelling of the babies name from Rhea to Raya. This way everyone will know the right way to say her name. Raya means Friend. I liked that also especially since we chose the name Joy for her middle name. Joy is the name of a very special close friend of the family. She is a very special person with an extra special place in our hearts--Joy Grob!

March 10, 2008

Last Tues. we received all of her paperwork. Friday we received the translated version.
Today we signed the Letter of Acceptance that tells CCAA (China Officials) that we want to accept her as our daughter. There are 8 families in our group so now we just need to wait for all the families to mail them in to our adoption agency. When they all have been received they are then Fed-Xed to CCAA. After that our agency can ask for our CA (Consolate Appointment) and TA (travel approval) that is when we will finally know when we will be traveling.
We are very excited!
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The Great Wall

The Great Wall
We climbed 16 hundred steps to the top!!