Today our church prayed for our family to send us off to China with prayer warriors behind us during both services.  It feels so wonderful to know that we have so many prayers supporting us through this journey. The next three weeks will be very busy and will have some trial but in the end the seperation and grief (Sophia's grief) will be so worth it as we have Sophia home.

Lots of packing and organizing still in progress.  Also praying on the final funds needed for Sophia's adoption.  Please keep us in your prayers.

One week!

Can you believe exactly one week from today I will be sitting on a plane on my way to our baby girl!

I am just amazed at how quickly time is flying by, so much to do until I leave.

We are still $3700 away from the funds needed.  If you would like to donate to our Sophia fund you can use the Chip In button on the right.

Hoodies, tees and hats have been ordered and will be here before the end of the month.  If they come in while I am gone my beautiful sisters are helping out and will get them in the mail to you.  Thank you so much for your help, support and prayers to bring Sophia home.

Featured Family!

We are one of the featured families this week at We Are Grafted In.  I love this site, we can freely share information with fellow believers.  There are some adoption support forums out there that really limit our sharing of faith.  I am so appreciative of Kelly for starting this site.  Not only does she allow us to share our faith but we also get to post our fundraisers and she has guest bloggers.  Hop on over and take a look at my fellow featured families and get to know the site.

Less than two weeks...

until Sophia is in my arms and part of her forever family.  Praise Jesus!

Thank you to everyone who has donated, prayed, advertised, prayed, encouraged, prayed.  You get the theme here!  Prayer is so very powerful and we appreciate every prayer that is said.  As our family prepares to be seperated for two weeks we know that we need your prayers more than ever.  This is going to be so hard on our two little ones who are missing their mom and our normal routine and then of course very hard on daddy who works long days and is doing all he can to help our kids cope while I am away.  Out of all of us I think my end of it will be easier, even with a grieving child and jet lag thrown in.  I could be wrong but I know how attached to our daily life our kids are.  Please keep on praying for us!

Fundraising, WOW!  We are so very close.  Every time I start to get discouraged the Lord sends someone my way to encourage.  As we wrap up our final fundraiser the hoodie, tee and military cap pre-sale I know that the Lord will provide.  This who journey has been a journey of learning to trust the Lord to show us that nothing is impossible.  If He gives you the vision he will provide the provision.  Being a human that is so hard to let go but I have learned so much in this journey.  Thank you to everyone who has been here with me.

WINNERS!!!

The drawing took place this morning by three lovely children!  I will post pictures of them tonight, my camera is at gymnastics this morning.  The first person drawn won the grand prize of the netbook.  From there you will get to pick the prize you would like in the order you were drawn.  I will notify you when it is time for you to pick your prize.  Hopefully, we will have all winners notified in the next couple of days.  Without further delay here is the list:

1st  Bonnie B
2nd   Granny
3rd    Sharon B
4th    Anne L
5th    Anni N
6th   Peyton
7th   Carol W
8th   Beverly A
9th   Samantha H
10th Mona A
11th Leslie H
12th Addie T
13th Shannon S
14th Shelly R
15th Uncle Bernie & Aunt Les

Congratulations to all our winners!!!

We appreciate all of your support, prayers and encouragement.

We have our Consulate Appointment too!

I didn't think it would take 48 to 72 hours to find out and sure enough I got word first thing this morning that our CA is Nov. 29th.  Sophia will be in my arms on Nov. 22nd and we will be home around Dec. 2nd.

As long as the wait seems now things are speeding by.  So many things that need to get done.  I just happened to call the bank today to make sure that they ordered our money and I am so glad I did.  The message didn't get passed on to the person that orders money but thank the Lord she was a wonderful nice person and said she would order it today to have next week.  She was such a sweet person and was so excited to be helping us.

Now to get our house organized, the girls room reorganized, bags packed, house cleaned, etc.  I am going to sleep the entire flight to China after all this!

WE HAVE TA!!!!!

Our agency received our Travel Authority letter today and sent in our request for our Consulate Appointment, in the China adoption world this is known as our TA and CA.  We are expecting that I will be leaving around November 18th and would meet Sophia on November 22nd.  This is all tentative at this point as our travel and meeting day are all centered around our CA.  We will find out in the next couple of days our exact CA and will begin to make our travel arrangements and get our bags packed.

Roughly we are about $4000 away from the funds needed for travel.  We really appreciate all who have donated, purchased and are praying for us.  Please help us continue to spread the word about our hoodies, tees, caps and of course the puzzle fundraiser.