Logged In for 14 Months

Another month passed by and we now have been logged in officially with China for 14 months. I have 2 wishes 1. Let's hurry up and get the November 2006 LID aka us out of review successfully along with our fellow Nov 2006 friends and 2. Hoping referrals start coming in 7 days or more again and not just a couple at a time. This is definitely a test in strength, faith, and PATIENCE. I'm trying really hard to stay positive and keep telling myself to look at the end result of being able to bring our daughter home to her forever family.

Craig's 40th Surprise party

I know I haven't been posting very often, but I have good reason. I have spent the past 3 months planning a surprise party for my husband's 40th birthday. His birthday is actually Jan. 20th, but planned his party a week prior (Jan. 12th), so he wouldn't figure it out. Wow, it was pretty hard trying to keep a secret that long from him and the kids. I basically spent every moment that he wasn't around trying to do invitations, ordering party items, creating a slideshow, gathering and scanning old photos. Well, I must say it was the best and most special birthday ever. He didn't figure anything out until 15 minutes prior to his party, but that was fine cause I still had more surprises up my sleeve. I'm going to trying to post his slideshow on youtube and then attach it here also to view. His slideshow starts off with him as a child and pictures of him with his parents growing up. Both his parents passed away several years ago, so I wanted to make it very special for him, after the first song it speeds up showing my husband's adventureous self that he is and then ends with him, me and the boys. I hope it will post okay and I hope all of you enjoy the slide show. My final surprise to him was I was able to contact a very old and dear friend of his that was our best man in our wedding and that he had been friends with since age 2that had moved out of state and we had lost his contact info after they moved. As I was cleaning for the party I found an old number and tracked him down. Funny thing is, a few months ago Craig mentioned that he wished he knew were we had put his old phone number and address info. I used to have it written in permanent marker on the dry erase board (not so permanent!) and it got erased. T I would like to end by saying that I have been very pleased to have met my husband right out of high school and to have had 3 beautiful loving boys along the way. As you will see I by the slideshow. What's not to love. p.s. I'm having trouble uploading to youtube. Hopefully I'll have it up tonight or tomorrow.

Hairbow Swap (January Theme: Wintery/Blue)

Thank you to Suzanne L. for the cutest hairbow ever. I absolutely love the hairbow you had made. It fits perfectly for this months theme (winter/blue) and has a really nice soft wintery look. I can understand why you had a hard time parting with it. I'm so pleased to have met so many wonderful people along this journey.

Thank You Cindy and Art

Thank you for the beautiful "Princess" dress bib. I've never see anything like it before. It's the most precious adorable bib ever. I can't wait to put it on our little "Kayla".

Speed Stacking

Zachary got the speed stacking cup game for Christmas. All of the boys, including Daddy and I are addicted to it. You have several cups that you hurry up and unstack and then you restack in a certain order (i.e. you can put 2 on the bottom and 1 on top of each set) when finished you slap both palms down on the timer to see you did it the quickest. Who ever thought that stacking cups would be so much fun. (ha ha)

No More Public CCAA Updates

Wow...what a total bummer:-(

Hopefully we can get updated through our agencies.

Bringing in the New Year 2008

Wishing all my fellow bloggers a Happy New Year and hoping that this year will be better than last year for all of the waiting families.

Many Blessings and prayers for speedy referrals, so that we all can become closer to bringing our little one home to their forever family.