Woohoo! Another batch of referrals came this month! Maybe they are going to speed up! What a great belated Christmas Present! It moved 5 more days yesterday! They are through February 2006! Only 3 1/2 months and they are to June 13 but could take a year and few months still. The Rumor Queen thinks they are moving on referrals now to get two batches in before the Chinese New Year January 26. The CCAA closes for 1-2 weeks for the New Year Celebration so maybe another batch before the New Year in January! However, March is a large month so not going to get too excited about getting too far into March Referrals in January!
We had a blessed Christmas....action packed and we are so thankful as God reveals His goodness in our lives. We had a house full of The Thornbury's Christmas eve and a fun time was had by all and a fun filled white elephant gifting was the highlight. Then Mike and I were able to attend the Christian Church for their 11pm Christmas eve service with a nice drama and music celebrating Christ and our friend Scott Moening sang the beautiful song "Mary Did You Know?" The song really touched my heart as our baby will be born this year and the wait will someday come to an end with a beautiful baby girl who has ready been born in our hearts with so much love. I can't wait to have Jailyn here to experience her first Christmas. It was a special night. We had our whole immediate family in town. Scott made it home for the holidays before all the snow storms hit Seattle and just celebrated his 25 birthday on Dec 18. He left Dec 26 for the Dominican Republic with his Navy buddies for a vacation. Katie and Billy celebrated their second Christmas together dating and they seem as happy as ever and busy with lots of family and friend holiday celebrations. Billy's folks were in this week to celebrate with them. We celebrated our family's Christmas on Christmas morning with Mike's Blt's at 10am, gifts and celebrating with Katie, Scott, Billy and Mike's dad. Then the afternoon brought the Comley Christmas lunch and presents with my family. My neice and nephews are sure growing up fast and we all had a great time together as family.
We are blessed and look forward to an awesome 2009 and for God to reveal His will for our lives as we continue to see His plan unfold as we prepare for Jailyn to join our family. It will be God's perfect timing for us. It appears it is never soon enough and God is never early so we wait for His perfect will and continue to celebrate the blessings in our lives. 2009 will bring a trip to Amish country in January at a cabin at a Bed and Breakfast, a trip to Grand Caymen we won a time share trip from Mike's work in March or May, running the Flying Pig Marathon as a 4 person relay in May (Getting in Shape and running as TEAM Thornbury with Katie, Mike, Ronny (Mike's brother) and me running the last leg to run over the finish line, a trip to visit Scott in Washington State and a trip to Gatlinburg in the fall and then hopefully China sooner than later.
Happy New Year!
We had a blessed Christmas....action packed and we are so thankful as God reveals His goodness in our lives. We had a house full of The Thornbury's Christmas eve and a fun time was had by all and a fun filled white elephant gifting was the highlight. Then Mike and I were able to attend the Christian Church for their 11pm Christmas eve service with a nice drama and music celebrating Christ and our friend Scott Moening sang the beautiful song "Mary Did You Know?" The song really touched my heart as our baby will be born this year and the wait will someday come to an end with a beautiful baby girl who has ready been born in our hearts with so much love. I can't wait to have Jailyn here to experience her first Christmas. It was a special night. We had our whole immediate family in town. Scott made it home for the holidays before all the snow storms hit Seattle and just celebrated his 25 birthday on Dec 18. He left Dec 26 for the Dominican Republic with his Navy buddies for a vacation. Katie and Billy celebrated their second Christmas together dating and they seem as happy as ever and busy with lots of family and friend holiday celebrations. Billy's folks were in this week to celebrate with them. We celebrated our family's Christmas on Christmas morning with Mike's Blt's at 10am, gifts and celebrating with Katie, Scott, Billy and Mike's dad. Then the afternoon brought the Comley Christmas lunch and presents with my family. My neice and nephews are sure growing up fast and we all had a great time together as family.
We are blessed and look forward to an awesome 2009 and for God to reveal His will for our lives as we continue to see His plan unfold as we prepare for Jailyn to join our family. It will be God's perfect timing for us. It appears it is never soon enough and God is never early so we wait for His perfect will and continue to celebrate the blessings in our lives. 2009 will bring a trip to Amish country in January at a cabin at a Bed and Breakfast, a trip to Grand Caymen we won a time share trip from Mike's work in March or May, running the Flying Pig Marathon as a 4 person relay in May (Getting in Shape and running as TEAM Thornbury with Katie, Mike, Ronny (Mike's brother) and me running the last leg to run over the finish line, a trip to visit Scott in Washington State and a trip to Gatlinburg in the fall and then hopefully China sooner than later.
Happy New Year!
