Year of the Ox

We are on our way!

Clapping for the dragon!

Happy Chinese New Year!

We went to the FCC (Families with Children from China) Chinese New Year event tonight. We haven't gone before but we really enjoyed it. My sister in law and her two oldest went with us.

Care package #2 and PICTURES!!

The care package above, includes a doll, cookies, blanket and letter.

And here is Miss Rachel with, I am assuming, her nanny.

Chinese New Year is coming up, I believe on the 26th, so we thought this was a good time to send Rachel a care package. I used Ann at http://www.readthreadchina.com/ and we ordered on Saturday and this morning I received 2 new pictures of Rachel, a picture of the carepackage and updated info on height and weight. That is awesome....and fast!! She is little, at 23 lbs and 31 inches tall, of course you wouldn't know it with all these layers she has on:)

Basically all we are waiting on at this point is TA(Travel Approval). So please pray that we are able to get the TA in time to travel on spring break. If we get it the week of spring break we will wait until May...and that will be a hard wait....but worth it

LOA

Our nieces.......Olivia 8

Emma 1.5
Gracie 3.5

We got our LOA the day we buried our brother in law, which was on Monday. Needless to say we are just heavy with sadness. We are relieved however to being one step closer to bringing home Rachel Lian. Thanks for your prayers, and please continue to pray for my sister in law and her 3 beautiful daughters.

Heartbroken

January 3rd has been marked as a very tragic day for our family. Our 3 beautiful nieces lost their daddy to a car accident. We are just so very sad and are praying for comfort for them and their mommy. We will miss you R.J.!!

Happy New Year!

OK I have to admit that on New Year's Eve we stayed home, I made grilled ham and cheese sandwiches and we rented/watched Wall-E. Man we are just animals :)) I will say that all of that was not the plan we did have intentions to go to our church for fun and fellowship but my hubby worked outside in the cold all day and cut a finger pretty bad so needless to say he was not in the fellowship mood. Taylor loved Wall-E. It's funny how that movie grabs his attention and he could care less about Madagascar.

This is Taylor pretending he is on a float in a swimming pool....

notice the upside down sunglasses.

My hubby got to go fishing today in the creek with his brother and they were very proud of their fish!!