Were here!!!!

We are here...yay!! That was a long 13 hour flight..whew!! We are doing fine with energy... a little tired, but after we get a good night sleep in a bed, we should be fine!

One more day before Ellie day!!!

Waiting for our Flight...

We're about 4 hours from boarding our flight to Ellie!!!! We have enjoyed our 6 hour tour of San Franisico. It was a beautiful day here to watch the seals at Fisherman's Wharf, trolley ride & Golden Gate. Now, we are ready for some ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ..... next stop, Taiwan!!

Our Travel Journey to Ellie has Begun....

We're at the Atlanta airport waiting to board the plane to San Francisco. It's starting to feel real to us that we will be holding Ellie in our arms in four days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to be an emotional mess when she's placed in my arms...grab your tissues & stay tuned!

Count down begins...

We are counting down the days until Ellie's little toes will be in the next picture, and completing our family of three + 2 dogs & 1 cat! Stay tune...

Final updates for September...Leaving on a Jet Plane in 2 Weeks!!!!

Our final pictures & updates of Ellie... and our beautiful daughter will be in arms in 2 weeks! yay!

Lots of pictures..enjoy:)

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TRAVEL NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We received our travel news today!!!!!!! yippee!!!!! Were so excited & overwhelmed with emotions, we just can't believe that were going to be parents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God is Awesome!! I prayed last night to God to help the staff at Cathwel that has been working so hard for the children and forever families. The staff at Cathwel are amazing, and love their children. We so blessed to be working with outstanding orphanage and Bethany our agency!!!!! Thank you God!

Our travel plans should be completed in a few days!! I'm still in this bubble of disbelieve~

"5th picture rule.... I think I'm onto something here"

August Updates

We finally got a smile, and a beautiful one at that!!!! Ok... here's our chunky monkey's charts--- Her last chart was noted on the 8/18, and she will be 7 months on Sept. 5th, which I'm having a hard time believing it will be Sept. 1st on Tuesday!!! On 8/18 she weighted 18.5 lbs, 26.5 inches, and some of the growth status for the past 6 weeks are.... babbles, localizes direction of sound, initiates vocalization with adults (I love that one), her & Beatrice (english springer) will get along very well, and verbalizes for attention... and like I said, her and Beatrice will truly get along well... Oh, there will be plenty of future videos of those two together! She has been eating rice noodle, mashed fruit, rice porridge, and of course 150cc of milk! Good little eater, mommy likes that:)

We keep praying for that phone call to travel any day now, and it's going to be unbelievable day on that special day! We can't wait!!!!! Literally, we can't wait!

I kind came up with this "5th picture rule" on the Taiwan family blogs that I followed in the past months that have been waiting to travel/ruling news. I've noticed (most of the families) when a family has received that 5th picture/update, they will receive final ruling/travel news shortly after.

GUESS what??? We received our 5th picture of Ellie!!!! Come on travel news!!!