We have been busy!

My goodness we have been very busy lately. We had two wonderful showers for Samantha, Caitlin's Birthday Bash, Soccer games, and school work galore. I have begun to get up at 4 am to get things accomplished for school. I rather enjoy this time and I hope that my efforts help my sub have a good experience in my classroom. You can actually get quite a lot done between 4 and 6 am. No ringing phones, and one snoring five year old helps my productivity level immensly.

I would like to ask you all to pray for us as our trip to China gets so very close. I am definetly stepping out of my comfort zone for this trip and hoping God's grace is sufficient to get me through as I am sure it will be. We leave Wednesday morning and there are still many things that need to be accomplished. Packing of course being one of them. I am actively trying to remain calm as I don't want to upset Cailtin but the closer we get the more I remember how much I DON'T LIKE TO FLY! Anyway, here are some pictures from the last couple weeks. Our next post will more than likely be from Beijing!!!!! Check out our Blog the morning of the third and I'll try to be sure to post some pictures. Our first day in Beijing will be the Great Wall and we hope to visit New Hope Foundation the night we arrive in Beijing.

Check out our Quilt blog by tomorrow. We have several fabulous new pieces of fabric from family and friends. I am going to try to get them photgraphed and loaded tonight. Thank you all for contributing. There is still lots of time if you are considering doing so. I won't even attempt to make the quilts until well after we are home. I'm thinking Christmas sounds good!

Ist AYSO Game

I have been looking forward to Caitlin playing soccer since she was teeny tiny. The day finally arrived and she was so excited. We have met some new families from our area and there is even a little girl on our road that we didn't know about. We had a lot of laughs and found out that we "are those crazy parents" now! Then of course when Cailtin's cousin Brooke arrived it was all about Brookie; see the waving photo. Yeah the show stops for Brookie. Poppy even saved the day by evacuating a dead gopher so the game could go on! Beware it was a quick shot I can't help it that it looks Poppy is about to drop the gopher into the guys pants! Such drama...

Just tryin the new video camera

We purchased a digital video camera so we can post video from China and just have an easier camera to use. We have a stack of little tapes of Cailtin that need to be transferred to a DVD. This digital process will be much easier. Anyway here it goes.

first day of kindergarten

Oh my, Caitlin had her first day of Kindergarten today. I was a wreck and she, although pretty tired, did fabulous. She never ceases to amaze me and I feel truly and wonderfully blessed to be her mom. She is such a wonderful little girl and is growing every time I look at her. So enjoy the sleepy but good photos...

WE GOT TA!!!

Hi everyone- about a week ago we got a call from our agency and they let us know our tentative travel dates were October 1st or 2nd. Today we got the call that our Travel Announcement has arrived. This basically means that the Chinese Government has said yes you can travel to our country. Right now we are waiting for our Consulate Appointment which is the second to last day in China. Our travel date is based on when that appointment is scheduled. Our agency requested a consulate appointment for Oct 14th-16th. So we will know in 1-6 days exactly when we will travel. We are super excited. We were just talking last night about how this was the worst part of our wait throughout this whole process which has been amazingly predictable. The timetables we were given were perfect and helped us through each stage. Our agency is awesome. So as time ticks by these next couple days I will be trying to cram 3 months of work into one. China here we come!!!!!!!