Knowing that God is faithful.

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands. Deut. 7:9

I just love it when God speak to me and I feel His peace around me.

About three months ago we had just started seriously considering adopting Jaidyn. All I could see were the roadblocks and hurdles and redtape. The impossibility and improbability of a third...(THIRD!!???!!!)...adoption from China. THIRD? I thought that I must be crazy and loosing my mind to even think about another child in our home. Afterall...one more equals SEVEN children after Ivy(our exchange student) leaves. So I kept praying and feeling that God meant for us to be her forever family. So I kept praying for the doors to open if we were her family or to close if we were not meant to be her family. Then...I started reading more blogs about adoption and almost every blog that I found was about a family that already had 6, 7, 8, or 9 or more children and were adding another child through adoption. Amazing. Most of the things that I found and read were actually things that I was struggling with or thinking about having a large family. But...reading these blogs made me feel that God was telling me that it was possible and probable when I let Him lead and direct us. When I followed Him...He would work the details out. When I stepped out in faith, He would show up...And guess what?? All the roadblocks that I thought were in our way to adopt Jaidyn have just been absolutely non-issues whatsoever. All the worry was pointless because they have not been roadblocks at all. We are on our way to bring this precious girl home and I am excited about it. I am looking forward to the journey and to how God will answer all our needs for this adoption to happen. I have already seen some answers...We are in the paper-chase stage right now. A few months ago i thought that the door was going to slam shut and there would not be any PA or paper-chase. Here we are...gathering docs, going to our medical appointment, and getting our local fingerprints done. I am so thankful for the answered prayers!

Introducing Our Third Hunan Princess: Jaidyn Grace!

We are so happy and proud to introduce our third Hunan Princess! We have received our official PA (pre-approval) and now the Paper Chase begins! We have known about this precious princess from the time that we brought home our first daughter, Jordyn, from China. She was the oldest little girl and we knew about the other two older girls from pictures that Jordyn came home with. We prayed for the two girls to find their forever families. I had a secret wish that we could keep the girls together. Jordyn would tell stories abut her friends when she was able to speak English. How my heart was burdened for them. Jordyn told how sad she was during her last night at the orphanage and how they cried together. She told her close freind that "maybe her mommy from America would adopt her too." God heard that secret conversation and through miracles upon miracles we brought home the second Hunan Princess, Jailynn. We visited Jordyn and Jailynn's orphanage and schools during our last journey to China to bring Jailynn home and during that visit we met the third little princess. We said hello to her, hugged her, and watched as she greeted her two friends. She seemed so happy to see Jordyn again as it had been about 2.5 years since she had seen her. She gave her a big hug and told her that she had gotten big! We only had a breif visit with her and then it was time to say goodbye. Words cannot express how sad we were to leave her behind. We wanted to bring her home too! We kept her in our hearts and prayers. I was almost certain that we would not adopt again and began to pray for God to send her a forever family. God had other plans...We are her forever family!