Monday, October 2, 06

Hi All,
We've created this blogspot to keep family and friends updated on our adoption journey. At this point, we have just received word that our hearing was on last Wednesday, the 28th. That is exciting news since we were waiting for a phone call to tell us when the hearing would be, not that it had already happened!
Jenna was at the hearing with her social worker. She would like to have more contact with us, which makes us very happy. We now wait for the 1st ruling. Then there is a 10 day waiting period; then comes the 2nd ruling. Families usually get called after 1st ruling so that they can start making travel plans. At any rate, it looks highly probably that we'll have Jenna home by Christmas. We would really love to have her home by Thanksgiving, but that would be a major miracle!

We finished painting Jenna's room (pink) and her furniture arrived last Thursday, the same day we got the call about her hearing. This Thursday her headboard will be delivered. Then more waiting. We hope to get more pictures soon.

How the journey began:

For those of you not fully aware of our journey, let me fill you in. Back in March we were approved to adopt a little 10 year old girl from Taiwan. After searching children from Asia for a long time, we pre-selected her after we read her profile and saw her pics. Somehow we just knew that she was the little girl God had for us. We've been waiting ever since then to go over and get her and bring her home to her new family.

She does not speak any English; however, she is now getting 2 English classes a week. We are attempting to learn Mandarin Chinese, her secondary language (she also speaks Taiwansese). Hopefully, by the time we get her, we will be able to underastand each other a little bit.

Our journey acutally started many years ago when I was a girl. Before we were married, Erick and I talked about definitely adopting and older child one day. This is that day! We are very excited about our upcoming new addition and want to share our joy with all of our family and friends.

We hope you enjoy sharing in our adventure!

Please pray for our little girl to come home SOON! :)