The girls while we wait

Little j had a TaeKwonDo tournament yesterday. This was her very first and she did so good. She was on cloud 9 all night and again today. She is very proud of herself and we are too! She is the little one in the middle with her sparring gear on. She still placed 2nd! Look how big those other kids are!

Mommy and Daddy love you!!!!

Pictures

These pictures were taken in February! Isn't he handsome! And check out that Snoopy jacket he has on!!! (For those of you that don't know, J. and I are huge Snoopy fans! We both collected them as kids! In one of L.'s pictures while we were waiting for her, she had on a pink Snoopy shirt) God is so cool!!!

The Beginning

Well, this is my first attempt at blogging. I am not sure how it will turn out but here it goes.....anyone have any advise, I am all ears!



We began our journey driving down the road, not too long after we came home with Lyla. J. looked in the rear-view mirror and said (and I quote),"You know, there is room for one more in this van!" unquote. I started looking at waiting children's list. I had signed up for Heritage's list several months before Lyla joined our family because I was very scared she would turn up on a list before we received our referral for her due to her age. I joined several lists, but Heritage is the one I kept coming back too. After several months of looking at pictures, I told J. a little boy is what I thought we needed. Everywhere we turned around, there was a little Asian boy. Every time I would see one, I would tell J., we need one of those!!! One night while we were sitting in our favorite Tia restaurant, I noticed a family staring at us. Now this is not really unusual. We have three beautiful girls that just happen to be Asian, with two very white parents. But they kept looking. Then when they got up to leave, I saw him. He was soooo cute and I looked at J. and said....."We need one of those!!!!" I continued with.."You should go say Hi and talk with them." Now normally J. does not get up when I say something like that. I usually do!!! But he got up!!! And he talked with them for about 5 or 10 minutes, then I had to get in on the conversation!! The little boy wasn't from China but he was adopted. He was adorable and I really wanted a little boy. I would show J. pictures all of the time of little guys! I showed him Pu's picture and he was hooked. After we submitted our interest in Pu we had to wait a couple of days to know if we were picked. Then I got the call and we submitted our LOI (letter of Intent) on January 23, 2008. Our paperwork was logged in China on April 24 and we are waiting for our LOA, letter of approval.



God has been very good to us and He had provided for us in so many ways that is really hard for me to grasp. We have decided to name our new son Ryan David Zheng. We can not wait till the day we can hold him in our arms.

I hope you enjoy our blog. It will not be fancy...I don't have the time or knowledge to make it other than letting our friends and family know what is going on. I will try to catch up a few things in the next couple of days of things that have happen since we have been waiting.