While we wait....

We are done with our home study visits as of 1 1/2 weeks ago, so now we are just waiting for our home study to be written up and then approved by our agency so we can go onto the next step of sending our I-800a application to immigration for their first approval. We are still hoping to have our dossier sent off to China by the end of the year.

But while we are waiting (which by the way, is really hard, especially when most of the waiting is completely out of my control!), I thought I would catch all of you up on the past couple months.

We went for a week long camping trip at the end of August, spending a few days at Sunset Bay and then met up with David's family at Honeyman State Park, near Florence, OR. We made lots of memories and just had a great time!

Beautiful does not even begin to describe this beach that we found.


All four kids and one big kid (David) got buried in the sand. One of us just "had" to take a picture!

Wouldn't be a trip to Honeyman without a run down the sand dunes!

Joel was so proud of getting up the nerve to hold this newt.

Hannah holding a crab, Olivia even held one too!

Joel and Hannah's first day of school. Joel is in 3rd grade and Hannah is in 1st. My, how time flies!


My little girl, Olivia, riding the bus for the first time. She goes to a speech group at a local developmental preschool one day a week.

Olivia turned 4!

Josiah turned 3!

Now Josiah is going to school too at a speech group. He goes on a different day than Olivia, cause he needs to work on communication in addition to articulation. Olivia communicates just fine (too good sometimes!) and just needs to work on articulation.

Hannah has been in soccer this Fall, and of course loves it. She is on a co-ed team and often runs circles around the boys. She is not afraid of being right in the middle of things!

We went to get pumpkins last weekend.

Josiah has surgery coming up on this Thursday at Shriner's hospital in Portland. He is going to have a nose and lip revision. It is supposed to be a day surgery, so hopefully if all goes well he will be home Thursday night. Please pray for him, for health, and for the surgery and recovery to go well.

Also, we found out last week that Olivia will need a hearing aid for her left ear. Her hole in that ear drum is causing hearing loss.

Thanks for your continued prayers for Ai Lang and for our paperwork to go quickly!