Here we go!!

Here we go!!!!At the airport ready to go! First plane ride for everyone (Bubbles & Rosie too!)





Adam is already in the gaming zone! Let's just pray the batteries last 14 + hours!!!


Please pray for our arrival tonight-we are not going to have anyone meeting us at the airport in Beijing. : (
We will get a hotel & head to Nanjing the next day. Very scary for this hometown girl! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Travel Details

Here are the travel details of our journey--please pray for travel graces and protection!

Friday, Feb.22--Saturday
      6:30am depart Huntsville Airport
      8:44am arrive in Atlanta
     12:05pm depart Atlanta for Tokyo
      4:20pm arrive in Tokyo (it is 1:30am here-Saturday Morning)
             This is a 14 hour flight!!
     6:40pm depart Tokyo for Beijing
     10:20pm arrive in Beijing (4.5 hour flight)
           It is now 9:20 on Saturday morning for you!
    We will get a hotel in Beijing for the night, however to our bodies it will be 10:00 in the morning. We try and get some sleep and wake up the next morning and board another plane for Nanjing.
   
Sunday, Feb 24
    10:45am board a plane for Nanjing
    12:45pm arrive in Nanjing with a guide holding a sign with our name-           Finally!! (We had no one meeting us at the Beijing airport!)
  
Travel to the hotel and rest because tomorrow morning (Monday) is the BIG DAY!---Gotcha Day! That will be your Sunday night--so please remember us and pray we are rested and ready to meet this sweet little girl!

I will post the return flights later....hopefully!!

Showers of blessings

Last night the amazing friends of my church gave me a shower full of wonderful gifts for Aimee. I am beyond blessed that all of these precious people are in my life and love me.
Please continue to lift our family up in the preparation to travel for our daughter. I hope I do not forget anything -but thankfully we are going to the land where everything is made! Ha!
This is the cake! Cute!!


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this is a test-from my phone!


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Latest Pictures

Here are the latest pictures we received right around her birthday (January 2013). We are getting ready to go very soon and I will repost later to get better at this!

New Years Day

January 1, 2013.......... Can you believe it? It has been a little over a year that we started this whole adoption process. I am not your usual adoption mom. I wish I had knowledge to blog every thought and timeline everything-but life happens ... multiplication facts to learn, reading, site words, soccer, the list goes on and on.... if you know me at all you know my fear of computers....I know-I am married to the computer wiz-but they intimidate me so much -I'd rather not ask him to help-!!! I hope to be able to add to this blog so that you will be there in China with us---- especially Doug &Barbara!!!
           We sent her a Christmas care package last week and hopefully we will get some more pictures soon. Our letter to the cccwa will be courier on Jan 3. Then we will wait for our article 5  to be picked up then we will get our travel approval-   hoping to travel at the end of February- ( probably sooner if it wasn't for Chinese New year--Feb10-lasting 10 days!!). I don't mean to throw a bunch of initials at you -but it all means that we are closer to bringing Rongwei home to us-that's all that matters!
         Stay well this year -pray hard and keep your eyes focused of the bigger things. Life is lived in the moments.... so enjoy them all - little or big. Blessings to your family... Laurie
           

Update on our Adoption

Here is the latest update on this wonderful adoption story. I am such a slacker in posting on here, but know I must get better for our trip. On September 28, 2012 we got a call at 7:08 in the morning from our awesome social worker, Amy Hart. She said that Lily, the social worker in China has locked a file in for us. She wanted us to see her and pray about it. Well, I couldn't open it until 9:00 or so and when I did---oh man!! I wasn't expected to see everything--all of the severity of the special needs she has. WOW! But, we saw her face..... that says it all. We we expecting to get a 3-5 year old little girl, but we we matched with an almost 2 year old!!!! Amy said that Lily wanted us to see this little girl because she looks really good and healthy. I tracked down Dr. Parmer and had him look at her file along with the International Adoption Clinic doctors. Later on Saturday Lily sent us a video and email from her orphanage and we wrote a care plan for Xi Rong Wei to become our daughter!!! They call her Weiwei for short!!! We plan on calling her Aimee Love Wei Fox and she is absolutely beautiful!!!  I felt differently about this little girl---I don't know what it was, but I just knew she already had a hold on my heart. She does have some special needs that we had not even considered, but she can walk and crawl...so I think she will be just fine. Someone said that her special need is that she needs a mommy and daddy--and that sums it up!
This week I finally got on a yahoo group of people who have adopted from Wuxi City,China and there was a lady asking if anyone has adopted Rongwei! I almost screamed---well, I did scream! My heart jumped and immediately responded to her post. She said she was there in July and saw Rongwei and wondered if anyone had adopted her yet. She said she was precious and such a beautiful little girl! She was going to find some pictures of her for me. Later she sent me her post of her blog of going to the orphanage. I had already seen this post because I had googled Wuxi City Orphanage and it appeared. This is when it gets good---- her post was dated July 19--my birthday! I had prayed for God to do something BIG on my birthday. Our Dossier was sent on July 20, so I assumed that was close enough---but He went deeper and had someone see my daughter---look her in the eyes--on my actual birthday!!!! Never think He is not in the details!! I know it doesn't sound like much---but for me, I was like I was there with her!! The days are growing long and my patience is growing short....I am ready to get the LOA and start planning our trip to China!
I will post more later....very blessed....Laurie