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!!

August 3, 2007

Well it is referral time again. The families who were logged in Nov. 14-Nov. 21 have received
the information about their little ones. It seems that they are referring about 1 week each month so we still have a pretty good wait left. We are just keeping busy with decorating and
organizing the house. We will be getting ready for school to start soon so that will be keeping us pretty busy. I am just thankful that China is referring a week at a time and not a day at a time like they were doing a short while ago. So, we are looking at it like--WE ARE A WEEK CLOSER TO BEING WITH OUR LITTLE GIRL.

The Great Wall

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