PA for Tegan!

Tegan 10/2011

One of the 1st pictures I saw of her almost a year ago and knew she had to be our next daughter.

We got Pre-approval from China today for Tegan!
 She was 5 years old in November. She was abandoned when she was 2 months old and placed in an orphange. In 2008 she went to live at Bethel home for blind children. She is currently learning English and does really well. Her chinese name "Rong" means aromatic, like a lotus seed paste and "Yuan" means the hope that she is fat and round, favorable.

Matched

We have been matched with Tegan (Rong Yuan) and are now waiting for PA.

We have been waiting months for this news and our daughter has been waiting 5 years to be part of a family. I hate to think if I hadn't seen her picture and persued her paper work to be filed, how much longer would she have waited! I am so glad the wait is coming to an end soon!

Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait  for him. (Isaiah 64:4)

Tegan's Paper Work

It has been confirmed with our agency that Tegan's paper work is finally at the CCCWA, after 10 months of waiting!  Now we are waiting to be matched with her and then we can send in letter of intent. Which then China will grant pre-approval and we can finally be documents to China!
Thank you God for answering our prayers for our daughter!

Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe in who He says he is and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)

PA for Piper

Piper Arabella

Her referral picture that I fell in love with 2 1/2 years ago.

We have PA (pre-approval) for Piper! One down and one to go.

Piper

We are now in the process to adopt 2 girls at once. We have already locked Piper's file and are still waiting for Tegan's paperwork to be processed. They have promised only 1 more month and it will be ready.

With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. (Matt 19:26)

Piper is 3 years old, 25 pounds and almost 3 feet tall. She is deaf. Missing her left ear and has right ear deformity. I have been praying for this girl to have a family for 2 &1/2 years. So now she does!

I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him. (1 Samuel 1:27)

I am sending in LOI tonight! :)

I-800A approval

We just got our approval today in the mail. We had our fingerprints taken on May 11th and the approval date is listed as May 19th (8 days)! When we were adopting Bronwyn our approval took over 1 month so this time was a lot faster!
We do have a problem because the civil affairs office still has not sent her paperwork to the CCAA. The in China liaison has talked with them a couple of times to try to persuade them to send it in but so far nothing!So when our documents go to China in a few weeks everything is going to come to a halt because of this! Please pray that God will get a hold on these people! He can do anything and I have the faith that he will do this! She is my daughter and I will never give up!

He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. (Job 5:9)

Fingerprint appointments

Got notice in the mail today that our fingerprint appointments are May 11th. We have to drive to Nashville for these, which is about a 3 hour drive.
We still have no word about Tegan's paper work! Pray that it gets to the CCAA soon!!

I800A sent

I mailed our I800A today to our government to determine if we are suitable to adopt a child from China.
 When we got to the post office Miss B. wanted to know "are we here to pick Sissy up?" :) I wish it was that easy baby!!

Bronwyn helping me paint Sissy's bed. She prays for Sissy every night and wants to know when we get to go to China to get her. She told me last night " I can't wait till Sissy comes so we can play and have fun with each other!" I can't wait either! We love you Tegan!

LID

We just got our log in date 1/30/11 from China to start our second adoption. We hope to be adding Rong Yuan to our family before the end of the year. We will be naming her Tegan Renee. Tegan meaning" beautiful" and Renee meaning "reborn". She lives in Beijing China at Bethel home for the blind.  One of her eyes didn't fully develop ( like Bronwyn's) and the other eye has problems also we just don't know to what extent yet. She is probably what they call "legally blind " she can see just not good. She just turned 4 yrs old on November 14 and is just a little cutie! I saw her picture on Bethel's website and fell in love and knew she had to be our new daughter!  She is 38" tall, which is only 3 inches taller than her little sister! It looks like we are going to be raising 2 shorties! We were able to use our old dossier since it has been less than a year from when we adopted Bronwyn. So the process should go much quicker. We are so blessed to be in the process of adding another daughter to our family!

Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west.
Isaiah 43:5