Happy Birthday Emily!

I really don't know where to begin. Our baby is 13 today. I no longer have kids I have TEENAGERS!! This is a scary thought for me. I have been truly blessed with two beautiful children. Here is the top 10 things I love about Emily.
1. Heart of Gold
2. The way you draw your dresses
3. Awesome smile
4. Carefree additude
5. Makes the most awesome brownies
6. The way you work with small children
7. Love the way you look at world through innocent eyes
8. YOUR HUGS!!!!
9. Your awesome blue eyes
10. That you are ours!!!
We are truly blessed to have you as a daughter. God is going to use you in an awesome way.

Happy Birthday Jason!

Today is my cousin Jason birthday. He was adopted when I was 18 months old. He is one very special person to me. Jason is the one who has opened our eyes to the world of Autism.

Happy Easter

We hope you had a wonderful Easter!

Mission Trip

Jacob is on a mission trip with our church. They started out the trip at the Mayan Theater with a church service by Irwin Macmanus. They were in San Diego today passing out flyers for a new church plant. Tomorrow and Wednesday they will be helping out the Dream Center in Los Angeles.

Happy St. Patricks Day

Hope everyone had a great St. Patricks Day!

Matched through Jan 4

Referrals are here. China has matched dossiers through January 4, 2006. We are finally in 06!! We still have awhile to wait.

Mulan

Hey y'all, I was doing my homework tonight, and I popped in the Mulan soundtrack, and for some reason saw that Mulan has been out of theatres for 10 years! I can't beleive how time flies. I remember going to the movies on Mother's Day Weekend to see it. Now 10 years later we are adopting from China. Crazy huh?

Science Fair

I (Jake) had to do a science fair for my science class. I decided to do something on rollercoasters (obviously!). I wanted to see what type of rollercoaster is the fastest, so I built one ride and changed the track to the three main ride type ( steel, wooden, and inverted floorless). Then I timed each one, and got my results. It was really fun, and easy. I didn't get to go on to the County science fair, but that's fine with me. History is much more fun to learn about anyways.

Baseball starts

Jacob started baseball today! They won their first game and tied their second.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Principal Honor Roll

Jacob made principal honor roll last semister. We are very proud of him.

Vacation

I have been on vacation since last Friday. I took the week off to paint the house. I think I need a vacation to recop. The house LOOKS awesome. I will post pictures later. Last Saturday we had a paint party. I wanted to thank everyone who helped us. We could not have gotten the house painted without you! Thanks again.

Eighteen months

Eighteen months today our dossier was sent to China. I never thought in my widest dreams that we would be waiting this long. We have to keep reminding ourselves that God is in control.

Camp video

Look what I found on youtube

Happy Chinese New Year

Today starts a New Chinese New Year!!
It is the year of the rat!

Update on Building

I went be the building today and they were painting. Hopefully we will be able to move by the end of the month.

Update of South High

David is almost done with the South High job. It looks AWESOME!! The word REBELS is spelled out in it.

New Building

Update on the building. They are completing the inside of the building.

The show room
Inside of David's office
The shop
The show room

Cool cookie

Today Emily, Mom, Ben and I went to Panda Express to get lunch before we went shopping. I got the neatest fortune cookie. This is what it said. I am going to say if for Hannah's baby book. The only thing it didn't come with is travel dates.

Mountains with snow