No news yet for Referrals!!!

We received our first baby gift from Grandma and Grandpa Comley. The car seat and stroller have arrived and now just need the baby girl to go in them. They are already spoiling her and can't wait until our happy referral comes in the next week or two. No rumors yet.....optimistically waiting!!!!! No speculation when yet....Keep praying getting more excited everyday!

Cautiously Optimistic we are next for Referral

Well what a month of world events. Firstly we are thrilled Scott was not in Japan for the Earthquake and is now in Guam training and out of the country of Japan. Pray for Japan. We were so thrilled we took a trip to see Scott in January to Japan and more thankful we were not there this past month. It burdens our hearts for all the people we met that live in Japan. On a Happy note, we celebrated Katie's 31st b-day with dinner at Jags with she and Billy and Mike and I. It was way fun. Our preparations so far for the month include that we have taken Baby Basics and Baby CPR. We are ready for our referral to come. It can come anytime from now to mid April. We believe our picture of our little girl is being matched to us as we speak. As long as their are no obstacles and they refer the amount of babies they have been we are good. Pray! We are being re-fingerprinted for the last time in April and will start the ball rolling with documents to get travel rolling once referral comes. The later referrals come this month or next the more than likely we will travel in June to pick up Jailyn.
Pray! I am excited however cautiously optmistic as there are lots of hoops to jump through before she is ours.
Happy Spring!

What a week!!!! Baby Preparations have begun!

Well we have our registry at Babys r us and Pottery Barn kids. Oh my stars do we need lots of stuff for Jailyn. It was so much fun we shared the day with Lynelle and Jeremy, the new mom and dad of Alyssa they will go pick up from China in April, at Babys r us. Mike and Katie went with me as we got our registry zapped too. It was 2 hours of decisions of things we pretty much figure we need. Thank goodness Lauren and Jean and I went the Wednesday before to Babys r us to educate me on what to pick. I am learning this baby stuff and taking it all in. Then Monday I was able to surprise Lynelle at her work with a baby gift and celebrate her becoming a mom. You know it is just so different when you are adopting and it has taken so long to come up for referral. We have been sad and disappointed for way too long which has been completely out of our control. Now it is happy times (and is still very unbelievable finally) and all happening all in Gods perfect timing. It is time to celebrate everything good! We are persevering through many obstacles as we wait for our referral and Lynelle and Jeremy plow through their referral getting it translated and sending off their acceptance letter back to China and moving to travel. We are getting through this journey together. We also went to Baby basics class to prepare us for what to do when we get our daughter. It was geared to newborns however very informative for us too and we are celebrating no labor for us just a long labor of love and years of waiting. Once we get our referral I am going to cave and have a baby shower before we go. As long as we have a picture and moving quickly to get her home I think I can handle a happy baby shower before she comes. Then I want a big celebration with friends and families once we come home. It is really starting to happen and I am enjoying this time finally she is really coming. I am going to attach one picture of the guys ready to zap their first item the car seat which ended up not showing up on our registry but the picture is way fun of Mike and Jeremy. The other picture of all of us was fuzzy and not good. However I have photos of Lynelle and I at her work. Gotta get a new camera now ready for our gotcha day!
Until our next up date!
Keep praying!!!!!