What a week and it is still as busy as can be and we are only 2 weeks from travel and soooooooooo excited! Best part is today got an email from our agency that our Gotcha date has been moved up a day! Best news ever! We travel 2 weeks from today. Matter of fact we would be boarding for China in Los Angeles as I type this late tonight. How surreal it is all coming together. So we will arrive in China June 11 and in her provincial town NanChang after lunch and meet our travel coordinator and get to our hotel. Since we are arriving early they are giving Jailyn to us on that Sunday. They are bringing her to the hotel and then on Monday we will have our Civil Affairs appt which means all the paperwork to complete the adoption will be taken care of that day...... I AM SO THRILLED ONE DAY EARLIER!!!! IT BRINGS SUCH TEARS OF JOY TO MY EYES! That means we get her and can start bonding with her and on our own turf so to speak. YAY! I truly believe my prayers are being answered as I wanted less emotional trauma to our daughter as she makes this transition to joining our family. My hope is that she is coming on a bus from FengCheng that day and right into our arms. I would hate for her to spend the night alone in the orphanage until she can be with us. I am so happy! Just have to finish a few things we need to do before travel like notarizing, shopping for the trip, take care of all the going out of town logistics, phone, money, laptop accessibility in china.......and start packing and get us there and back. It is just a matter of 2 weeks and she is ours! How blessed we are!!!!!
WE had a fabulous weekend with our family reunion. Which was a surprise for my mom and dad as we celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary and their 80th birthdays this year with everyone. We had a pizza party at our home Friday and then our family dinner and surprise for my parents at the Oriental wok on Saturday. All was well. See the pictures of Mike and I and the whole family and only Jailyn and my nephew Drew were missing. This week has been all about travel meds....Mike and I started taking the Typhoid Vaccine and we only made it through the dosing halfway. We took 2 of the 4 vaccines. Mike was having terrible side effects and I just did not feel well. We opted to stop taking them and believe having a healthy immune system before travel was more important than getting ill over this preventative measure that may or may not work should we be exposed to Typhoid fever. We will take our chances and pray God will keep us healthy. We have travel meds for Jailyn and her 4 hour clinical with Children's Hospital is set for July 13 to check her out head to toe. We will be back from China for 3 weeks, hopefully on a schedule and have celebrated her 1st b-day before we put her through the trauma at Children's.
Getting closer and so happy! Have a Happy Memorial Day Weekend!
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Congratulations!
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