Raising funds Please Help!!

After many prayers, we have decided it is time we ask for help!

The estimated cost for Lily's adoption is $23,000 to 25,000. We felt we would be able to cut back spending and save to meet this goal. But, a few months into this adoption we found ourselves having to each take a substantial pay cut. Lily has VSD (heart condition) it has been repaired in China but it may only be temporary fix, She may require another heart surgery. We have no idea what Lily's medical bills will be when we bring her home, but we know by experience they could get to be overwhelming.

So we decided to ask for help collecting the orphanage fee it is $5,200.00. This fee is paid to the orphanages to help care for the children still waiting for families and for the new babies and children who will need care. It seems like a small amount when I think about the fact that Lily had surgery to repair her heart and has been cared for, for 3 1/2years.

We humbly ask, Please help us to bring home Lily, by helping us raise our orphanage fee. Your donation will help the next child who needs care receive it.

Thank you!!!!

6 years old!!!

Kai turned 6 yesterday!! it is so hard to believe!!

The kids did a great job making their pumpkins!

Thank you Amber (Jacks best friend) for making Kai's birthday cake. She has started her own cake business. We loved it!!!

Joyful, kind, loving, happy, loves to sing, loves to color, loves to laugh!!!

These are the words I would use to describe Kai. If you ever watch a funny movie you want to sit by Kai, He makes it that much better with his laughter! Everyone wants to be around him, he spreads joy by just being himself!

We love him sooo much and are so grateful and humble that God choose us to be his family!! I look forward to seeing What the Lord does with Kai's life and the impact he will have!

Enjoying the fall

I am really enjoying this fall!! The colors don't get much better than they have been. I checked with Nicole to make sure our dossier went to China and it did. I had planned on checking with her in a month to see what our LID (log in date) was. But she said to check back with her in 2 weeks and she would see if she could get it then. I also went on one of the yahoo groups I have belonged to since we adopted Kai and it is showing the average so far for 2009 is 80 days from LID to TA!!! That would put us in China in Feb!!! Chinese New Year is Feb 14th and is usually at least a week long. These are examples of my mind working on things I have no control over. Now I better get my butt in gear and figure out what the bedroom situation is going to be!!

DTC TOMORROW!!!!!!

Take a look at this! No not the mail box...

Yes the lady bug!!! on my mail box today and what else came today... my papers!!!!

In the adoption world lady bug sightings usually mean things are going to happen!!! and they did!!! Nicole said she almost kissed the delivery guy for me!! I am sure for her sanity too, now I will be off her back for a while anyways!! But not to long!!! She said she will be sending my Dossier to China TOMORROW!!! wooohoooo!!! I can not believe that the lady bug was on the mail box too...

a nice walk sunday

Kai and I went for a nice long walk on Sunday it was a perfect fall day!

This turned out cool. I was trying to use my small binoculars as a lens to take a closer picture of the bald eagle. (wrong end!)

If you look close you can see him between the trees sitting on a dead branch. this was the best picture I could get. Maybe next time!

We are so blessed to have this wetland maybe 2 or 3 miles from our house!

Not a great pic of me but he is soooo cute! (self taken)

Lots of wollybears with very little black... does that mean short winter or long winter???

And fun we had!

My nephew James, Kai and my friends son Cade! The little rascals return!! We even had chants of Woman haters club and a paper football flying over a wall and landing in a deep fryer. But only when we met Mike for dinner later...

What would put such excitement in these faces?

Bubbles lots of them!!

This is a frightening scene... I really don't want to think about it, but as quickly as they are growing up it wont be to long before motors are added to this picture...

Kelly and I were in the original but we are not as cute as these guys!!

The pictures do not do this Justice. This is a swamp with hundreds of pumpkins sticking up out of the water some spin around, some drop down out of the trees it is quite a site as the reflect off the water!!!

This is really a sweet picture, but then we went to get a bite to eat...

We had these three silly boys and added a big instigator!

Who taught them many things...

in fact I think he showed them most of the things you should NEVER do in a restaurant.

Thanks Mike for the "you Never do this" demonstration!

By the way did you remember to tell them???

=)

I LOVE FALL!!

Need a little sun to rise and shine

Driving the boys to school we get to see the most beautiful sun rises!

It has been rainy and cloudy and we could use some sun shine it makes things seem not so bad!

This is one of my favorite trees!

Soon the deer will be making regular stops to this trough to feed for the winter!

The beginnings of leaves changing...

Resting

One of the last bean Fields not harvested.

I have few words this week as our documents did not make it to China...

After many emails I have found out what should have taken a week, has taken much longer. The consulate has stopped expediting paper work that is mailed to them. What this means is it has taken since the Oct.1st and we will hopefully get them back Oct.19th. I am not even sure I have words to describe my emotions frustrated, sceptical, disappointed, impatient, sad... It is hard for someone not going through it to understand. So here I am at the start of another week end, weekends take on a new feel in this waiting process, knowing nothing is getting done and just wanting Monday to come for people to get back to work. With all the rain and clouds it is hard not to be gloomy.

I will choose to enjoy my boys and this fall weekend and I will pray Monday bring good news that our Papers are back and our documents are off to China!

Guess I had a few words after all =)