Gracie's Room

Gracie's desk
Gracie's dresser
Gracie's chandelier
Gracie's window

The room is finished and here it is. We have also received final travel arrangements.
We leave on Thursday May 10th and arrive in Beijing on the 11th. We will sight see for two days and then travel to Hunan on Sunday night. We will get Gracie at 9:00 am on Monday the 14th (which will still be Mother's Day here). We will be in Hunan until Friday, then we will go to Guangzhou to finalize the paperwork. This will be done on Tuesday the 22nd. Wednesday the 23rd we will fly to Hong Kong to catch our plane home. We will go through Chicago on our way to DFW. We are scheduled to arrive home at 7:33 pm on Wednesday. (United Airlines Flight 537Q)

Consulate Appointment!

Our Consulate appointment is scheduled for May 21st. Yeah! Our travel arrangements were made today, we will be leaving on Thursday May 10th at 7:40am, and returning on Wednesday May 23rd at 7:33pm. Needless to say we are beyond excited. We almost have Gracie's room finished and our goal is to have it complete over the next few days(I'll try to add pictures in a few days, or you can come by and see it) to focus the next two weeks on Matt. We are all having quite a bit of anxiety about being apart for 13 days, so we really want to give him some quality time before we leave. Thank you all for your prayers as we continue on this journey.

Nothing new

The waiting is getting harder but we have nothing new to report. We are waiting for our Consulate date to get our travel dates finalized. Waiting is hard, but this picture is a great reminder of who has stolen our hearts.

Travel Approval!

Today we received our travel approval. At this point it is more like an invitation. Our agency is working on getting our Consulate appointment (this is what makes everything final). At this point it looks like we will leave on the 10th and have her in our arms on the 14th. We should have final dates sometime this week.

While we wait

Sunday April 8, 2007 As we celebrated Easter today, we could not help but wonder what our little Gracie was doing. It looks like we will be celebrating Easter again when she gets home.

We hope to hear something this week about out travel approval, which would mean we would have a definitive travel date.

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Deena