9 months and a New Year

Ok. I'm a little late with this post. Tuesday we celebrated our nine month LID anniversary. We got our Chinese but we didn't get Anna an outfit this month. My sis, Christy, gave me a ton of clothes from her girls and Anna's closet is full. So for right now I'm not getting any new outfits. China made referrals to December 19th 2005. They didn't get very far down the road but we are praying that God does a miracle in our adoption. Whatever He wants, we are going to be obedient. We are praying that God will clearly show us His will for our adoption and we are going to be obedient .... whatever that means. So It snowed in Mississippi today. I thought I would share some pictures. I kind of went crazy with the pictures but what do you expect with a Florida native?? Enjoy.

(Well the blog will only let me show five pictures so here they are. I know there are some people reading who don't know us personally, so I thought I'd share a picture of us, as well)

8 Months and Christmas is here again

Merry Christmas

We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Today we celebrated our 8 month LID anniversary. We had a very busy day which was good because it kept our mind off the fact that we have waited 8 months and we are not very much further down the road than we were when we started. China made referrals for the month of December. They got to December 14, 2005. We were hoping they would go further than six days but they didn't. Our hope for the new year is that China will begin to refer more babies and maybe a miracle will happen and next Christmas we'll be celebrating Christmas with our precious Anna. Here is Anna's Christmas outfit for this year. We think it is adorable. We look forward to seeing everyone at Christmas. We love you all.

7 Months today

Happy Thanksgiving to you all

Well another month under our belts. We enjoyed our Chinese tonight but the mood was quiet. We didn't get Anna an outfit tonight but we got a really "fitting" Halloween costume for her to use once she is home. This month went pretty quickly. We figure the next two months will go quickly as well. We are happy to report that China finally made it out of November 05. They made it to December 8 05. One day they will actually make it to 2006. We continue to hope and wait and wait and wait and wait and wait...............well you get the picture.

6 months or half a year

Ok. I hope people are reading our blog. We didn't get any comments last time so I don't know if because it is slow people aren't checking in. Unfortunately there is little to update. We are at 6 months and China is still in November they sent out referrals for this month and they went up to November 30th. The forecast for future referrals doesn't look too good. They are thinking that a year from now China might be referring March 06........UGH!!! We need you to pray. My heart is heavy right now and I'm fighting depression on how long we have to still wait. At China's current pace it'll take six to seven years to get Anna. Please don't say "Oh it won't take that long" or something to that effect because unless God does a miracle (and yes, I know he can) it'll be six to seven years at the current rate. The best thing you can do for us is to pray because our hearts our heavy with the thought of it being six more years till we hold our baby girl. Ok time to go too many tears.

5 months down....

Well it has now been five months since our log in date. This month went pretty fast. We knew it would with school starting back. We went and got Chinese and boy did I have a good laugh. Scott thought he would be brave and try something different. To put it in his words "Stretch himself". So he ordered orange beef. The waitress said we would like it. Well the sauce was pretty good but the meat was questionable. We weren't sure what "beef" this was or what animal it came from. Needless to say his face was priceless. He choked down enough to look like he ate it and then dug into my plate. Thanks for the laugh honey. Here is a picture of the outfit we got Anna for the 5 month LID anniversary. We both thought it had an Asian look to it. China made referrals through November 25, 2005. They only referred four days. Disheartening to say the least but we continue to have faith that God will bring our precious Anna to us in his time.

4 months and counting

Well I'm a little late in this post. We celebrated our four month log in date almost two weeks ago. We were a little distracted with a trip to Florida and with me starting back to school. I was too tired to post. But I have finally regained some time and here is the post two weeks late. Sorry. I love that people are looking at our blog and posting. Please continue to do so. You don't know how it encourages us both to see people's comments. I have gotten Anna a lot of adorable outfits and I thought I would "preview" some of them on my next few entries. Here are the first two that we bought. We got these on our one month log in date anniversary. It's hard to see but the pink one says "Daddy's little lovebug" and has ladybugs and polka dots all over it. And the other one is too cute with ladybugs. It is a 4t so it'll be awhile after we get her before she can wear it but it was so adorable I couldn't pass it up. I even found some matching socks. Oh and China has gotten through November 21st with referrals for this month. But now that I have waited so long for this post, referrals are about to come out again. Hopefully China will finish November this month. We are praying that way. Oh by the way, I did two post tonight. I felt bad for not updating in a while. Enjoy. .......and please leave a comment :).

What can $8.00 buy?

Ok....so this is what $8.00 can buy. We went to the mall tonight after dinner for a date and this is what we found. We paid $8.00 total for both outfits for Anna. I just love being able to buy her clothes and I can get these great "off" season deals. At least that is one positive about the wait.
(They are cuter in person---hint, hint)