We are heading to Texas!!

We are about to leave in a few minutes to drive to Texas and get our son!!  I would say meet him, but we already did that during our life in China together.  We will keep you all update and hopefully will be posting pictures and video.  Aiden has lots of family and friends anxiously awaiting his arrival in Florida.  Please pray for a supernatural process through the interstate in TX.  Once they give us the clearance we can leave and come home. We are praying for clearance on Friday or the latest Monday.  Thank you for agreeing with us.

We are excited!!  

Practicing Photography

Two of my little sisters were the subject of a practice photo shoot. The sharpness of the colors don't come through to well on this blog.You can double click on a picture to enlarge it.  I still have much to learn.  I am more comfortable photographing anything that doesn't involve people.  Haha!   I have another photo shoot schedule on the 14th with my parents. Taking new shots for their website and media purposes.  Pray for me!

Interviews going on today in Texas

Well, our social worker is finally doing at least one interview we know of with the couple from Texas regarding Aiden. We hope she got the second interview scheduled, but we will know more by Monday.  We are waiting patiently, BUT truly hoping to have a game plan of when we can travel by Monday or Tuesday.

On a side note, we purchase Loving Your Kids on Purpose by Danny Silk.  Highly recommended by Aiden's foster mom and dad in China.  We have watched only the introduction session and we like it.  I'll let you know more as we go through the entire series. 

A long overdue update

The last three months have been typical waiting months when it comes to adoption.  My emotions have gone up and down and all over the place with the realization that we have a little boy, not a infant coming into our home.  Good thing as a Christian my feelings don't dictate my life.  So, fear and dread have no place, only faith, hope, and love!!   At this time we have the ball rolling again and I anticipate traveling to Texas in about 3 weeks.  If you have read my previous posts there are unique circumstances with this adoption.  I know that this wasn't God's plan for Aiden to go through everything he has gone through in the last 5 1/2 years, but the Father is the  Master at restoration and healing of our hearts and I know He will do that for Aiden. 

We have worked at getting his room ready for him and trying to prepare ourselves for this huge life shift.  After all, we have been married nearly 10 years and it has just been the two of us, you kind of get stuck in your "ways".  But we are looking forward to soccer practices, spontaneous stops for ice cream, Disney World, reading bedtime stories, Christmas morning, and everything else God has been preparing us to enjoy with our children. 

I will be posting as we get ready to travel and while we are there. 

It's never how we think it's going to happen......

I have found that over the last 5 years that we have been walking the LONG road of adoption everytime I feel like we are going to land things change. The first time around when we were trying to adopt through China a lot of things were miscommunicated and bottom line was that I was not yet 30 and well, that is a law in China. After nearly 3 years of loving and bonding to a little boy who we will always love with our whole hearts, we by default of circumstances moved away from that adoption.  Since then we have been pursuing an adoption with South Korea and we would have been matched in December of '09 if we had all the money.  As we were making our way back to the top of the list for a infant from Korea we get a call about a 5 year old Chinese child from Texas.  Crazy, right?   

So, we have been pursuing things with this little guy in Texas and talking with his parents.  Our hope is to bring him home by the end of June.  This is not what MY plan was, but I trust that God's plans are way better than mine and I know that all that my heart desires will come to pass.  It may not happen in the order that I imagined it, but it will happen.  

This is a picture of the little boy we are in the process of adopted.  As stated in my previous posts, we worked at the same foster home where he lived for a couple of years before being adopted.