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!!

May 29, 2007

We have our updated I171H. So now we are just waiting for China to get to our Log In Date (LID) in their piles. Things have been very slow in the process but we know one day we will find out were our littlest daughter is. When you find out who your child is that is called a Referral.
So we are now waiting on our Referral. New Referrals for the families that are Logged in before
us should be known possibly next week. I will try to get better at posting how far they are in
the process. As of now they have referred up to Nov. 1, 2005. We have a LID of Jan. 4, 2006.
We are thinking and hoping for a Referral around Sept. 2007 sometime.

The Great Wall

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