6 days to China...
We final received all of the conformation of our trip today. We will be leaving on June 4th and returning on June 21st.
As you can imagine our house is a whirlwind trying to take care of last minute paperwork and plans. We are so excited & I am very scared. I can't wait however to get to Emma Grace. Our Gotcha Day will be June 10th. That is the day we will finally hold her in our arms. So now the countdown is on. Tick tick tick....

We have our TA(Travel Approval). It arrived via email at 12:30 today. Now we have to wait out the very long weekend until Tuesday to receive our CA(Consulate Appointment) This appointment will finalize our travel dates. Our agency has requested that our CA place us leaving for China on June 4Th. On another note we received a phone call today from our agency to let us know that Emma Grace had her palate surgery. At first we thought that we were going to have delay our travel to her. However after our agency did some follow up calls and we think everything will be OK. We will find out for sure on Tuesday. After the roller coaster of this week waiting on news it leave me happy and so sad. Happy that soon she will be in my arms where she belongs. Sad because somewhere in China my baby girl in in a hospital in pain. I want to hold her so bad my arms ache. My prayer is that God will hold her and take away her pain & that somehow he will let her know that we are on the way.....

Travel In 3 Weeks!!!

We received a phone call today from the travel department at our agency. They are expecting our Travel Approval this week and are going ahead and looking at our travel dates. We are being told that we will leave on June 4 and fly to....Beijing China arriving on June 5th. We will be spending out 10th wedding anniversary on June 6th in China. Also Aaron with have both of his little girls with him on Father's Day. We will have to wish Paw Paw a happy b-day and happy Father's day from across the ocean. It looks like we will not return until June 19/20....

We just received these updated pictures. Can you believe how much Emma Grace has changed. She is so beautiful. I can't wait to hold her. Pray for a quick TA (Travel Approval).

WOW! Now that I have come down out of the clouds let me tell you about my day. This afternoon we received an email from our agency telling us the they have received our Letter of Acceptance(LOA). We were told this could take up to 3 months. This starts our formal count down to travel. The last line in the email is enough to make me stop breathing...."We estimate your travel to be 5-8 weeks." 5 WEEKS!!! That is next month. God's perfect time....Now we fly through loads of paperwork and try to keep our feet on the ground. We have booked appointments for Monday to meet with our Travel Doctor(yeah shots). I have a list a mile long of things we need to buy to pack. Oh and I need to find baby clothes...and a crib..and all that wonderful baby stuff that we have waited forever to use again. Did I mention that we could travel in 5 weeks.......We have crawled along at a snails pace for 2 years and now we are in warp speed..