Ready for Christmas Eve Service

Thnaksgiving Blessings!

One year ago today...I was waiting on PA, no correspondence from my agency...Sad and morning the lose of our first referral, and trying desperately to figure out Gods Plan...

Today I am filled with jot to have my daughter in my arms, hearing her sweet giggles. Today I can see Gods Plan. What had to be to have what was meant to be ours. I was reading today and found the most perfect words. God is Good at that.

This was the place I was 1yr ago today. Sometimes in our weakest moments God is accomplishing the most. What appears to be a dead end contains the seeds of God's new beginnings. I did not know last yr what God had in store for our family.

I learned in the last yr.... The choice to trust God isn't cushioned by deals and promises that everything will turn out the way we think it should. God's only promise is that He will work all things in our lives for our good and for his glory.

This I can say is so true. Khloei who was placed in our lives by Gods davine hand was more of a blessing than I could ever realize. The daughter my heart sought and was brought by God. Only God knew what Khloei needed, and what our family needed. As to our first referral all of the is true for her. She was hand picked and placed in her family by God. No one knows why God chooses one family for a child and not the other, But through Christ we know that it is what is best. And through that, peace is found. I can not ask for more this holiday season. All my prayers have been answered this yr. God is so Good. Happy Thanksgiving!

Fall Fun

Pretty in Pink!

I just love having a little girl!

Beautiful Even As A Tomboy!

My little princess! What happened? Her older brother is turning her into a tomboy! Well here we go. Another year of tackle football. 5 nites a week practice and games on the weekend. I bought some DVD's on teaching children to speak mandarin. So hopefully she will be able to remember some Mandarin. We will have lots of time in the van traveling back and forth. Well I will post more when I have time.

Things have been going great! Khloei is doing so well. She is sleeping good and it only takes me about 25 minutes to get her to sleep. I rock her for about 20 minutes then lay her in her crib where she holds my hand till she falls asleep. I love it... She is so sweet.

She has been screaming a lot when we tell her NO! She defiantly likes things her way. And will scream and yell when it does not go her way. We have started putting her in time out for screaming. She will sit on the time out step, and her little lip sticks out. I just want to kiss her up. But I know she needs to learn not to scream at us when we tell her NO! She is so funny and loves to play games and swing on the swing set. She also will play for hours in a baby pool. She is our little fish. We camp a lot at our cabin. Well I call it camping, but it is really a cabin. It is on some property that we own in WV. I can hardly wait to take her. My younger son Nathaniel is 9. He will be done with soccer in 2 weeks and we are headed there as soon he is finished.

I will be posting new pics soon. We just celebrated Ryan's birthday/ one year with his new family. Ryan is a little boy we fostered from a disrupted adoption. He was adopted from China about 2.5 yrs ago and the family changed there mind. We had Ryan with us for a few weeks last spring, when some good friends from our Church stepped up to adopt him. He is such a wonderful little boy. We do miss him, and during Ryan's stay with our family we prayed about adopting him. God had spoke directly to both my husband and I that we were not the family for him. Though it was hard and I sobbed many nights after he left our home. I can now see God's plan. He is with the perfect family for him. It is great that we see him regularly and I get to babysit him. It was a wonderful celebration this past weekend as about 70 people came to his party. I have some wonderful pics from that day. Ryan is now 6 years old and adjust well. He was adopted from China at 3.5yrs old placed in our home at the age of 5yr. and is now 6 yrs old and with his forever family. Please pray for him as he has Nevus. Right now his health is good. But this special need can become very serious.

Update On Niece

Well my niece had surgery for her VSD, because of the location it was open heart surgery. It was Tuesday the 27th. I stayed almost the whole 4 days with her, and 1 night. I rotated with my brother in law, who is an attorney and a professor. So his schedule kept him in and out and home one night for good sleep. Her surgery went well, and it was very hard picking her up and moving her around. She is doing well home and happy. As for Khloei it was hard. She missed me a lot, and was having some difficulty with me being gone so long. She stayed with Daddy so that helped. But sometimes they just need MOM! My husband said the night I was gone she cried a lot and woke a lot crying. So that made me sad..... But I was happy to help my sister and I got to learn a lot about Khloei's surgery in China, and how it must have been for her. Which made me cry that she went through all that with out us. I came home and babied her...And now I look at her surgery differently. Not that I ever thought it was simple, but having watched and helped my niece I just feel more sad for my daughter. I heard my niece cry out for mommy and I just sob that my daughter did not have a mommy or daddy to call for, to comfort her. I rocked her to sleep to night and thought of all these things again. I am thankful that the orphanage workers stayed and took shifts with her so she was not alone, but it was not us, and it was not her mommy and daddy.