HOW OLD IS EMILY

Ok guys, those of you watching my site, it is now time for you all to get in on some fun. How old do you think our baby will be at refferal? When we started this game over 2 years ago, my guess was she would be about 11 months old. My guess today, taking in to account that the babies have been getting younger, I still say 11 months old. Pending we get an August referral, this will give her a Sept. birthday. How cool would it be if she was born on her daddy's 40 birthday!!! Now that you know my thoughts, guesses and wishes... leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Today marks 20 months since our paperwork has been officially logged in in China. I tell people we are 20 months into a 6 month wait. Talk about deer in the headlight look!!!

Another thing that I am kind of excited about is that we could indeed be in China for Sept. It is a slight possibility we could be there for my birthday (the 24th) and an even slighter one that we will be there for both (D's is the 15th). This is just wishful and prayerful thoughts on my part. I know God has THE GRAND plan.

Stay tuned for more random ramblings, um, I mean posts!!! Looking forward to reading your guesses on HOW OLD IS EMILY.

7 DOWN AND 4 TO GO

Referrals just came out end of last week. They made it up to Nov. 14, 2005. We are now only 4 (yes, you saw right, F-O-U-R!!) referral days away!!!!! Yippeeeeeeeeee!!! Does this mean we are next----- Of course not a definate, but a strong possibility. We should know in the next 30 - 35 days. IF we get our referral next month, we should be traveling in early Oct. The babies also have been very young the last couple of referral batches. When we started, the average age of the babies at referral was between 11-16 months. They are now averaging between 6-9 months!!!

On the non-adoption front we have been very busy. We just finished VBS (Becky taught, Donnie did rec.). Several members of our church left this morning for a missions trip in AL, we desperately wanted to go, but everything is so up in the air, it is really hard to make plans. For the 4th of July, we had a BBQ at Donnie's Mom & Dads. The end of this month we are going canoeing, that is always a lot of fun. I don't think we will make it to the beach this year, but next year with Emily will be lots of fun.