Baby Shower for Sophia Ruth!

Words can't describe how wonderful it was to have a baby shower and celebrate our baby girl's soon to be homecoming! I am so very blessed with the best girlfriends and mom's who dedicated their time to put this together, it was awesome! The decor was butterflies(of course) and Asian umbrellas, Asian dolls(thanks to Georgette!) and paper lanterns and Peonies(the flower of China) It was so beautiful, especially the cake(check out below)
Sophie you are going to be so loved not just by us, but by all who know us! I just can't wait for the next baby party b/c you'll be here and it will be in your honor!
Rumor has it that matches have started......stay tuned to see if they got into the month of Febuary....Let's pray!!!!!

Great Matches for the month of May...

Well, we finally had good news, the Chinese Gov't matched 8 days worth of people this last month, and although it was late coming due to the earthquake it was worth it! They have now reached Jan 20th..and only have 7 days to go to finish the month of January 2006! Chinese New Year runs Jan 28th -Feb 5th, so we get to omit that week!
The lastest rumor is that in 3 weeks, at the end of this month, they say there will be another big group of matches and they will probably be into the month of Feb 2006(we are March of 06) YEAH!! This is really happening and we are getting closer to you Sophie Ruth! We could only be 4 or 5 months away! Stay tuned and keep praying with us please!!!

Summer is FINALLY here!

The Famous Christmas Story House

While celebrating Gramma Ruth's life in Cleveland Memorial Day Weekend, we paid a visit to the Christmas Story House! It is the actual house that was used in the famous movie we all grew up watching year after year! I highly recommend it to everyone, it was so fun and surreal walking through it, you felt just as if you were in the movie! Charlie and his cousins had a blast, especially sitting under the famous sink where Ralphie's little brother Randy sat in the movie, and the yucky red soap that poor Ralphie had to have his mouth washed out with!(They even sell the actual soap!)
And STILL no word on the baby matches for this month. Due to the terrible earthquake that destroyed a large portion of China last month, the Chinese Gov't had stopped working on adoptions for a few days and part of their staff are still gone helping....although it's hard to wait to find out how far they got on matches, it's no comparison to the tragedy that all those poor people are suffering...so we can handle waiting.....