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!!

Jan. 4, 2008

Wow! Can you believe it is the year 2008. Amazing!!
It is now the 2 year anniversary of our LID. That means our paperwork has been in China for 2 years. When we began this journey our wait was 6 months. The GOOD news is that referrals came out again--they notified families with LID's from Dec. 14th-19th who their babies are. ALSO, GOOD news is that we are NEXT in line at our adoption agency for our referral. Okay so now with all this Good news what is the Sad news? Sad news is that we could still be in for a few months wait because there are other families at other adoption agencies who are logged in (have paperwork in) from Dec. 20th to our Jan. 4th. This time China was able to match 5 days in a Month. If they continue to match babies to families in 5 days each month--well lets just say we will be waiting 3-4 more months.

We are excited to say that we will have our daughter home with us sometime in the year 2008.

We would like to wish you and your family a very Happy New Year!
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The Great Wall

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