Finally it is with great joy and thanks to God, that we can announce that after a very long wait...WE HAVE A BABY. Her name in Chinese is Feng Min soon to be Emma Grace Min Swinson. She is currently in Linhai China in the Linhai City Social Welfare Institute. Emma Grace is 18 months old. Her birthday is October 3, 2006 & as you can see from her picture she is beautiful. What a smile..We received the call on April 16 at 3:58 pm. I saw the name on the Caller ID and lost all train of thought. I remember thinking Oh, God this is it and then went brain dead. We have not been able to post and share our news until today. We had to wait on the CCAA to Pre-Approve us for her. We received that email yesterday around 6:00. We are over the moon. So now again we wait, only this time we are able to see daily what we are waiting and praying for. We hope to travel in about 3-4 months to get her. Please keep us, and Emma Grace in your prayers. Blessings...

YEAH!!!! Our agency posted late tonight that they have the new list of children. Could we be on this list. Only God knows and only time will tell..........

Still waiting....

We are still waiting for a match on our Emma Grace. We are currently working on renewing our I171H. This is the document from USIS that allows us to bring Emma into the US as our child. We have already filed this doc. one time but it will expire in March. In order to renew the doc. we are going to have to update our homestudy and some other records. At least we will have something to take our mind off the wait. Currently we are waiting on the next list to come out to our agencies WC dept. Could we be on this list??? Only time will tell.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
Today is a day to be so thankful for the many blessings in our lives. We are so blessed to have a wonderful family and great friends. We are so thankful to God for his presences in our lives. Last night as our family gathered around at our dining room table. I was having a really hard time remembering to be thankful because my heart was so heavy. We have been waiting on Emma for so long, as of today we have been waiting for Emma for 19 months and 2 weeks. I continue to pray that we will have our referral soon. As we lifted our prayers at the table last night my heart was also lifted because at that moment there was a ladybug. It was flying around the entire table almost like it was visiting. So on a day with so many blessings I am thankful for I want to add ladybugs to that list....