Kay's Orphanage is coming to get her...

On Friday, we also found out from Harmony Outreach that Kay's orphanage (where she was originally placed in) will be picking her up on Oct. 27th to take her back there so she can be adopted to her family on Nov. 10th. Harmony tried really hard to talk them into waiting until after i came but they insisted on the 27th.

At first i was really sad - i am still dissappointed that i will never be able to meet the precious little girl that we wanted and tried to adopt into our family. We know now that God used her to get us to this place in our lives - for us to adopt again. To trust Him and to have faith that His plan will be revealed soon.

After praying about not meeting her, i have come to realize that the Lord doesn't want me to be distracted while i am on this journey. He has waited 3 years to send me on this trip. He wants me to be able to focus on the work that He has planned for me and to be able to do it whole heartedly. ----- I do have a friend here that happens to be adopting from the same agency as Kay's family and will more than likely be meeting up with her and her family at the White Swan. So, i am praying that they will be able to meet and give Kay's family our contact information:)

Kay's Adoption Day is Nov.10th

Oh my, my, my... I am so glad to find out that Kay will still be at Harmony when i'm there in 10 days!!. However, I just found out that Kay will be adopted to her new family too, while i am there on Nov. 10th. I am so, so, very happy for her. Even though it will probably be very hard on my heart, i really would like to be there when she meets her new family. Please pray with me if this is God's will. I would love to meet her new family.
Also, i am trying to think of a simple meaningful gift for her and her new family. I know that i've never actually met her in person, but i do feel that she has been in our family for the past year as we have sponsored her, prayed for her and have tried to adopt her. So, if you have any ideas - please let me know ASAP!! :):)

Fingerprints!

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Fingerprints!!On Tues. Oct. 14th, Lance and i headed to Yakima for our 8am appt. to do our I800 USCIS fingerprints. They have come along way in the past 4 yrs! Now it's all computerized - no inky mess! The people were very friendly despite the intimidating entrance - Before you could even walk into the building a guard came out to check our appt. letter and then made us turn off our cell phone before we could enter and walk through the metal detector. After that, it was all smiles and very friendly people:) I'm feeling like we need to maybe start a blog for our next daughter and how our journey began for her - but that will have to wait until a later date!! :)

Happy Birthday Kay...

Thursday, October 09, 2008

Kay
On Monday, it was Kay's birthday (same as mine:)). We had sent her a package of birthday presents a few weeks ago. Harmony Outreach is so sweet, they sent us some pictures of her opening her presents and celebrating her birthday. They also sent a picture of her family that will be adopting her. It is a couple from Iowa. I still havent' found out if she will be there while i am there in a few weeks...

Kay's Matched...

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Kay...
I am so happy for Kay! We just found out this morning that she was matched with a family from Holt Adoption Agency. I am sure she will be going to a very loving family that will love her as much as we do. We were a bit surprised this morning to find this out - we had hoped that we had a few more weeks before she'd be show up on the list and be matched. We just got our homestudy done yesterday- our agency did an amazing job trying to rush to get it done. We will continue on down this path for another daughter. We feel that God had used Kay to lead us in this direction. We are curious and excited to see what He has planned for us. Thank you to everyone that was praying for us - please continue to lift Kay up in prayer.
God Bless...

5th Post...

Thursday, August 07, 2008

A little bit of hope lost...It's funny how quickly things can turn. Just yesterday we had great hope that we would be adopting Kay. Then this morning we received word that the orphanage will not write a letter for various reasons. So, we are left wondering what now? Do we continue to finish our dossier with hopes to adopt Kay - the chances are that China will require a family with their dossier completed when she appears on the list - but that's the questions: when will she appear on the list - in 1 month, or 3 months? we do not know... So, what happens if we are almost done with our dossier but still are not close enough to being done to adopt Kay? do we try to adopt another precious little girl? Or is God saying to us "Now is not the time." So many questions... we are praying about all of these things right now - please pray with us too...

We also recieved an update in the mail about her with a picture. Here is what it said: Kay is a happy and very active little girl. She moves quickly and keeps her nannies on their toes with her mischievous nature. She walks very well and climbs up and down stairs on her own. Kay is a good sleeper and has a daily routine of eating, playing and napping. She has a bright and cheerful disposition, is fond of music, and will nod her head along with the rhythm. She is very smart and likes to imitate her nanny or the other children's actions. She can tell by her nany's facial expression if she did something right or wrong. She also is able to draw a straight line with a pencil or crayon.

It sounds like she'd fit in perfectly here!!! Her birthday is the same as mine - Oct. 6th. So, we will be putting together a bday package for her soon too:)

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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Kay Update
We are feeling a little bit more hope... It looks like Kay's orphanage might write a letter on our behalf. We are praying that this gets done in a timely manner - (like REALLY FAST! :)) It then needs to be sent to the Province's civil affairs bureau and then to CCAA. We are also praying that CCAA will show favor upon us and hold Kay's file until our file is closer to being done. We have NO IDEA if any of these things will happen - it is all in God's Hands. We feel that we are really taking true steps of faith in this. We have an accepted application with Lifeline (our agency) and we are getting our homestudy updated. We traveled to Spokane today for our first homestudy visit and to get some more questions answered with our agency. We will have another visit in a few weeks... in the mean time, we have just a couple paperwork items to complete. After our homestudy is done, we will file a I-800a with the Homeland Security to get approval from our gov't. Because of the new Hague Accreditation requirements, this has sometimes taken awhile (like 3 months!! ) So, when that time comes we will need prayers for a quick approval! ::) So, we are just praying, doing paper work, praying and doing more paperwork...
ps. we will not be able to post any pictures of Kay until we have everything secured.
But here's a picture of China. Kay's orphanage is in Urumqi on the FAR left side of China! Actually, this area has been in the news quite a bit lately with some icky stuff that is getting publicity b/c of the Olympics... yikes! Hayleigh was from Chongqing (it is the green province in the picture below)