I am crazy busy right now getting ready for our yard sale on Saturday. We are having it to raise money for the adoption. Friends and family and a few strangers have donated so much stuff, I have been so blessed by the generosity of so many. We are now praying for lots of people to come and buy everything.
Today has been a day to celebrate and rejoice. A friend of mine that I work with just received and accepted a referral for a beautiful little girl in China. I can not express how happy I am for them and how awesome it is to see another little one be united with their forever family. Seeing God's word and commands unfold is awesome. It has been such a privilege to experience this journey with them and to see how they have sought God's plan for their lives. If you want to follow their journey to China click here.
I have one more piece of exciting news. Next Monday the 31st one of my best friends, Adeye is moving back to where I live, I am so excited to be near my precious friend again, and her family. They just returned 2 weeks ago from the Ukraine with their two newly adopted children, and now they are driving across country with their 7 kids and 2 dogs. I am counting the days, but first I need to get through the yard sale :).
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
WE HAVE OUR RA !!!!!!!
Introducing Qing Xiao Nan soon to be Lily Stella Yeatts
This is the first picture we ever saw of our daughter - the one we fell in love with, she is about 9 mo old in this picture.
These are the pictures we received with her update 3 weeks ago. As you can see she is very small. She only weighs 14 lbs at two years old. She is not sitting. Due to the fact that she is malnourished and needs her heart surgery soon the CCAA expedited our RA. We will travel to China by the end of July, but we are praying that the next steps will also be expedited and we will go sooner. We are desperate to bring our sweetie home and give her the love and medical attention she needs.
The social welfare institute where she is at has been amazing. They have responded to all our questions the next day, and have done further medical tests for us. They really want to see her in a family.
We are not sure of all that lies ahead with Lily, but we KNOW that whatever we are to face she is ours, and we will love her and do all we can to help her.
This is the first picture we ever saw of our daughter - the one we fell in love with, she is about 9 mo old in this picture.
These are the pictures we received with her update 3 weeks ago. As you can see she is very small. She only weighs 14 lbs at two years old. She is not sitting. Due to the fact that she is malnourished and needs her heart surgery soon the CCAA expedited our RA. We will travel to China by the end of July, but we are praying that the next steps will also be expedited and we will go sooner. We are desperate to bring our sweetie home and give her the love and medical attention she needs.
The social welfare institute where she is at has been amazing. They have responded to all our questions the next day, and have done further medical tests for us. They really want to see her in a family.
We are not sure of all that lies ahead with Lily, but we KNOW that whatever we are to face she is ours, and we will love her and do all we can to help her.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Update
I haven't posted in a while, life is crazy, so here is a quick update, I will post some pics of the last few months soon.
Our paperwork was logged in to China on March 22nd. We are now waiting for our referral acceptance (RA). They said it would take 2-4 months, but it seems to be averaging about 60-70 days. 60 days would be May 20th. Our adoption agency recommended we didn't count days, well that is like telling me not to eat!!! I an obsessed with counting the days, following other peoples journeys and counting there days. We are really praying to travel in July, this is possible if we receive RA in 60-70 days. We then wait for travel approval (TA) which could come a month later. If that happens we will travel in July.
We are still raising the funds to travel, and haven't decided yet if we will take the boys. They would like to go so we will see - finances will be the deciding factor.
We are having a fund raising yard sale Memorial Day weekend, people have been donating items to us. My house is starting to look like a second hand store.
Ethan entered his first triathlon on Saturday. He did it with Chris (teams of 1 adult, 1 child). They canoed 1 1/2 miles, rode bikes 3 1/2 miles and ran 1 1/2 miles. He did great and had lots of fun. I was very proud of him. He even out ran his daddy :)!!!!
Mia turns 4 this week. She is having a Tinkerbell birthday party on Saturday. She is SO excited to have a birthday party and invite all her friends. She is also getting ready for her first ballet recital.
We are getting very excited to have our friends the Salems move back to Richmond in a few months. Adeye is in the Ukraine right now adopting their 2 daughters you can following her journey by clicking here.
Our paperwork was logged in to China on March 22nd. We are now waiting for our referral acceptance (RA). They said it would take 2-4 months, but it seems to be averaging about 60-70 days. 60 days would be May 20th. Our adoption agency recommended we didn't count days, well that is like telling me not to eat!!! I an obsessed with counting the days, following other peoples journeys and counting there days. We are really praying to travel in July, this is possible if we receive RA in 60-70 days. We then wait for travel approval (TA) which could come a month later. If that happens we will travel in July.
We are still raising the funds to travel, and haven't decided yet if we will take the boys. They would like to go so we will see - finances will be the deciding factor.
We are having a fund raising yard sale Memorial Day weekend, people have been donating items to us. My house is starting to look like a second hand store.
Ethan entered his first triathlon on Saturday. He did it with Chris (teams of 1 adult, 1 child). They canoed 1 1/2 miles, rode bikes 3 1/2 miles and ran 1 1/2 miles. He did great and had lots of fun. I was very proud of him. He even out ran his daddy :)!!!!
Mia turns 4 this week. She is having a Tinkerbell birthday party on Saturday. She is SO excited to have a birthday party and invite all her friends. She is also getting ready for her first ballet recital.
We are getting very excited to have our friends the Salems move back to Richmond in a few months. Adeye is in the Ukraine right now adopting their 2 daughters you can following her journey by clicking here.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Dossier
Here it is, ALL our paperwork - it doesn't look like much here, but a lot of sweat and tears went into collecting it :).
Everything left for China on Friday via fedex, I just tracked it and it is somewhere over the pacific ocean. It should arrive in China tomorrow :).
Everything left for China on Friday via fedex, I just tracked it and it is somewhere over the pacific ocean. It should arrive in China tomorrow :).
Friday, March 12, 2010
DTC
I have just one word to say
DTC (dossier to China)
Yahoooo, our paperwork finally went to China today :) !!!!!!!!!
What a relief to have that done. Now we wait for our RA (referral acceptance), it will take 2-4 months, we are praying for closer to 2 months. Then we wait for our TA (travel approval).
So now what - now we get ourselves ready, for Lily. I have a whole house that needs to be sorted one room at a time. Benjamin is going to move into his own bedroom, and we need to turn Mia's room into Mia and Lily's room.
We also have some funds to raise, so we are planning a big yard sale for May.
I can't wait to have my baby girl in my arms :).
DTC (dossier to China)
Yahoooo, our paperwork finally went to China today :) !!!!!!!!!
What a relief to have that done. Now we wait for our RA (referral acceptance), it will take 2-4 months, we are praying for closer to 2 months. Then we wait for our TA (travel approval).
So now what - now we get ourselves ready, for Lily. I have a whole house that needs to be sorted one room at a time. Benjamin is going to move into his own bedroom, and we need to turn Mia's room into Mia and Lily's room.
We also have some funds to raise, so we are planning a big yard sale for May.
I can't wait to have my baby girl in my arms :).
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