Two teeth!

I know it has been a long time. So I am sorry. A lot has happend since I last put anything on here. Destiny has two teeth on the bottom! It is a funny story becuase we did not know she was even getting teeth. The only thing different was that she was drooling a little bit. So I looked in her mouth & saw that they were close. Then the next day she had teeth! Now she is very close to getting her top two teeth, just starting to brake the gums. So cool!








She is still not crawling yet, but getting very close. She gets up on all fours & rocks back & forth until she gets her feet under her. Then she ether falls on her face or moves her hand forward to try to get something. Almost there.




Also we went to MT to spend thankgiving with Terry's mom & dad. It was a very nice time. We did not hit any deer but almost got three of them. There was no moon out that night so it made it very dark on those little roads all alone. Destiny is a very good traveller she did very well for an 8 hour drive in the dark.


This is a photo of her at Thanksgiving, Terry changed it a little. But look how big she is getting.
That is the photo that we took while we were over there as the back ground.



This is a photo of the three of us, for the homestudy. She is a big daddy's girl.
Boy how we grow, some of us grow the wrong way, & others grow just the way God wanted us to. Here to getting bigger in the right way.
Love you all,
Michele
Happy Holidays!

Happy Halloween!

This was sitting out side our home it was a very nice day & she liked those big things.




This is how big bro wanted her to go trick or treating. (I don't think so!) She really did not care, she likes anything that her brothers do to her. She thinks they are the greatest & so much fun.

He did take her out with him, but he took her out as a kitty cat not a scary guy.

It was hard to get her to look at you when you are trying to get a photo of her, with big bro sitting there talking to her. (she loves her brothers)

She loves to talk to Allex he is so much fun. He also was a big help today & alot of days when he gets to help with her. They are very cute together & make me laugh at them alot.

Allex took this photo & I just love it. Who knew that he could take so good of photos. He is getting so big, it was pointed out to me this week that he is know taller then I am. His voise has changed & he is no longer my baby boy. (scary)

Brittany said that the kitty cat had to have a pink nose, so I tryed.


She is still not going anywhere, but she keeps getting closer to it. Any day now we could be having her get into everything. I love her smile & she is almost always happy.

This is what she learned this week.

She also talks up a storm now, nothing that you can understand but cute all the same.

It seems that she is getting bigger everyday & you just hope you don't miss anything.
Love ya all!

8 months

She is getting so big, we went to the doc this week & they said that she now 17lbs. & 26inchs & that she is all up on all her shots tell she is 1 year old. She is looking very good for all that she has been though & they are very happy with how she is doing. (so are we)
It is hard to beleave that she is 8 now, it seems like we just got her home.
I watched as the people that we took photos of their babys all went & picked them up this week & last week. I had a good cry for them & the memories that it brought back. All of them made it home safely thank God.
So this is short & sweet, more next time.
Take care!

Bringing back memories

Lately I just want to sit & watch her. It is funny how sometimes you see your other kids in her. When I look at her I see Brittany, she was a little butter ball when she was that big. When I watch her play I see Jessica, she used to make a big O with her mouth & wave her hands back & forth. Well I wish I had a video of Jessica, because she used to make us so happy when you saw her do it. You new she was having alot of fun when she was doing all that.
So today I took this video for Jessica. Destiny loves to sit in this chair & roll the balls in it. She does not laugh at it yet but she does talk to it & love to play with it.
So Jessica this one is for you, Love Ya!

Bye bye ity bity

Today is a very sad day. Today I have to put all of her 0-3 month clothes away. I know that this is a good thing, but it just makes you a little sad.

On Monday we went in to the Doc. & the Doc. said she is growing just the way she should. She had four shots in the legs, but she took them so good that she only cried for a little bit. Then she was back to her happy self.

As far as the boys go they still love her so much. They still fight over her all the time. Who gets to hold her, who gets to feed her, & burp her. I thought after a little while the thought of having a new baby sister would wear off. Well thankfully she has more prower over them then they think. It is so good to see how much they like her. She is growing so much in size & love she fits in with all of us so well.

Also I would like to thankyou for all the prays that you did for her as she went back to the sitter again. She did so much better, the boys went with her & as far as I now she did very good. In fact when I got there to pick her up she just smiled at me & kepted on playing. What a good change. Yeah!!

As far as my other two girls go they both need prays. Jessica is sick in Costa Rica, & Brittany is having a lot of problems with school right now. They both are in my thoughts right now & well be in need of prays that all will work out well for them, & that they feel like they can tell me anything that is wrong.

This outfit is size 3-6, & the pants are to go to her knees it is getting close.

It is her first sailer suit & I think she looks so cute. Not bad for Other Mothers you can find nice things at thoughs kind of places. We have found that Kids to kids has better prices though. This outfit only cost $2.00 not to bad.
This is the face you don't want to see very often that means that she is tired & wants you to hold her right now. She can make that lip just go crazy, but when she gets it going everyone is so into her lip that they all just laugh at her. So mom has to go help her, I love the lip.

Well I am going to try something new for me. This is a video I took this week.

Also I ask you all to pray for the three familys that are going to get there baby girls in two weeks. Please pray that the babys are in good health & that they come home safely.
Thank you, love ya all!

Getting bigger!

I know it has been a while since I wrote anything on here but I guess I have been doing other things lately. I guess you could say she is growing fast, but we are just taking it all in. We think she is 15lbs now & still growing.lol I know I hope she is still growing. She still can't roll over, but I think she is just lazy. She rolls as far as she needs to get what she wants then goes back to were she was. But for the most part she has her brothers to get her anything she needs, & when she said jump they jump. When they are home from school she is there baby, & that is the last I see her (or at least get to hold her) she has all the men in this family wrapped around her finger.

I think she is getting a temper though, because when she gets mad she is very hard to get calmed down. I guess I must spoil her to bad, when she gets up I make me a cup of hot stuff to drink & then I make her a bottle. All day long if I make me something I make her something also. So I guess you could say that I never let her cry because she always has what she wants. She is a very good baby, as long as she gets what she wants. You think with all of us that she would be OK with anyone holding her, well she is as long as you don't walk out of the site of one of us. She knows who is her family & she looks for them all the time.

This last week we had to get her a babysitter,( the best in the world & a very good friend) Destiny gave her a run for her money, she has 6 boys so she rocks with all kids. She means the world to me, so for her to take on Destiny meant so much to us. Well Destiny gave her a good long run she would not stop crying for very long before she was crying again. So my friend knew that sometimes she likes to go for a ride & after a while she calmed down. Like I said she is getting a temper. She is very hard to get calmed down when she gets mad. Will my friend should not get upset because she did the same thing to me later that week. She got out of my sight & got mad well by the time I got her back she was to mad to get calmed down. We took her home with her crying all the way then she cryied a little longer tell she would finally look at me then calm down. When she is mad she is very mad.

So this Sat. I have to work again, so I am asking you to pray for all of them as they try again to keep her. If I was them I don't know if I could do it she is a handful when she wants to be. I hope they know how much I love them. I guess Destiny is trying to find out who my real friends are by testing them. If she would just ask me I would tell her so she would not have to go to all the trouble of being bad.

Will would you like to see how she is doing now?

She is holding her own bottle of juice. The only thing is she thinks she has to talk to it also, she has very long talks with her juice. Maybe she thinks it will come out faster that way, no not going to happen. If you don't know I have a different nipple on her juice bottles, it makes her have to suck on them harder to get what she wants. I think it is working to help her learn to suck on things better.

Yes she is learning how to sit up, she is doing very good so far.
But as you can see she still needs some work as daddy is getting ready to catch her if she falls.
So you could say that she is getting bigger, & just loving up everything that she can get her hands on. We thank God daily for letting us be her family, & all our other kids that we have loved so long & look forward to watching get older everyday as they grow more & more.

On to Jessica she is in Costa Rica right now & we miss her very much. I guess you could say that I am jealous of her. As far as I know she is in a very pretty place working very hard with school. I used to call her alot but now I can't call her at all. So I miss her voice very much. I wish that she could put photos up on her blog. so we could see some of the places that she goes. It sounds so nice & I just want to see her face again, if I can't hear her voice. I MISS HER & I love her very much. If you are reading this know that I am thinking about you.

For all the people that are waiting to go back & pick-up there babys know that you are in my prays. The time is getting very close for you now you can make it. For the others that are waiting to go back you are still in my prays & will be tell they all come home.

Love Ya All!

The results are back

I have been waiting for a long time to post anything. We were waiting for some tests to come back to see if she had whooping cough or not. It has been a long wait but they called me today to let me know that they had no idea what was wrong with her. We did take the meds for the cough & the cough is all most gone.( praise God) For a while we thought that she had something real bad. We took her to the doc that said that she had a lot of babys that were from other places & knew what to look for. Well I don't know what to think, she never found out what was wrong with Destiny. So should I get another doc or stick with her? The first time we went in she said that there was nothing wrong with her, she said that her cough was just in her throat. So a week later when she was coughing so bad that she sounded like she was having dry heaves. I took her back, she coughed & coughed untel the doc walked in, then she would not cough again. She did cough a little after she had been crying for a while, but not like she was before. So we did the test that took a long time to come back, & now we know no more about what was wrong with her then before.


Now on to better new she has changhed so much since we came home. Before she could not hold your hand, now she has a very good grip. Before she could not stand on her legs( she had jelly legs), now she loves to stand. I know you will think I am crazy but I think she can say hi & ya. When you say hi to her she almost always says hi back to you. When you ask her if she wants a drink she almost always says ya. It is so cute!


She can not roll over yet but she is very close, she gets half way then goes back when she gets what she wants. She can sit with people to watch her for a little while then she falls down. It is coming & she is getting it, that is good enough for me.


When we took her in they said that she was in the 15th percentile on weight & 5th in height. Then they took her back to when she should have been born, & she was 50th in weight & 28th in height they said she looked good, we know that. She always looked good to us. The only thing that they said bad was that she has a premie head. What does that mean? We thing her head is just fine just needs some more hair on it.


So I bet you would like to know what we have been doing since we got back. Well we have been going going gone. We went to family camp whitch she loved very much, she loves being out & under the trees. Also our middle daughter ( that just sounds weird to me) went back to collage so we took a road trip to get her all moved back in. Then our oldest daughter went to Coasta Rica on Monday, so we took her to the airport, & ran home to take the boys to school. Boy is the house quiet now.


But before they all went there own way. I thought that I would never get to hold her again. The girls wanted to take her with them everywhere they went. Then when she was home the boys had to hold her all the time. I don't think she got very good sleep tell night. When all the kids went to sleep. Then she would sleep very good, some times she does not get up tell 10am. Boy do I like that, because so do I. She is a very good baby she likes all people & will go to anyone with out crying, tell she can't see one of us. Then she lets them know that she would like one of us back. She still has the smallest cry I have ever heard, but it has got a little bigger if she don't get your attention. But it still sounds like a little kitty.


Well would you like to see some photos of how she looks now?

This was her last bath, she is not a fan of baths, but she does like to take showers. Look at that tummy. This was taken a week after we got home.
This little cape was given to us by some friends in MT. We think she looks so cute in it, & she likes it alot.
I was going to post two days ago on her 6 month birthday, but I was working at a Bill Gaither show. It was good from what I could hear. She is a big girl now, at least she thinks so. This her standing, she loves to stand up. She smiles & smiles & thinks she is so big.

As for all of us this has been a very big blessing to have her in our lifes & we can't think of how it would be with out her here.

I would like to tell you what happend in the hotel as we were taking Brittany to school that night. We got to our hotel & all sleeping when my oldest boy started to hitting me. When he woke up I asked him how come he was hitting me. He told me about his dream. He said that someone was trying to take his baby sister, & that someone had already shot him so he was trying to hit him to get her back. That is when he found out he was hitting me. He said that he can't reameber what it was like not having her in his life, & he said that he can't think about leaving her when he goes to collage next year. He said that he would have to put her in his bag & take her with him. That is so sweet for a 18 year old boy. I love all my kids so much, & would not know what to do with out their smiles & love. They rock my world!!!

Love ya all!

Were home!

It has been a long time since I have wrote anything. We have been on a big roller coaster since we left Bishkek. The crossing was anything but fun. Then when we got to the hotel I could not blog anymore. Something happened to it & it just would not let me in.


So do you want to know what happend after we left Bishkek?


Well the drive over there was very nice. Burt & Gem, & us were in the same van. The other two familes were in there own cars. Like I said the drive was nice & then we got to the border & all things changed. Apirl's car went through first & she got out of her car & went in. Well to say that was the last we saw her was true until it was all done. Then the arm went up again & the other two cars went in, us being one of them. So we got out of our van & walked inside. Terry & I were first in line so we went first. They looked at our papers & let us go. So we waited for the others. Well that was not what we should have done because the cop came up to us & took her passport from us. That scard me just a little because he went out of sight. Well he took it back over to the desk & they started all over again.


After they got done with all our familys we had to walk over to the Kazakhstan. The best way to tell you what that was like is to say that it is like walking over to Mexico. You walk across the bridge & there are so many people over there. It was like being in a mall at Chistmas - so many people - & I don't like being in that kind of thing. So it was hard on us. We walked into this place that was full of people & our coordinator told us to follow him. We pushed to the very front of this line of people that had been there for a while. There was no air in there & it was very hot, but they got one of our familes done. Then it was our turn. We got almost done when he grabbed the family behind us & took them to another line. That made some people in the other line very mad at them. Anyway that man went to the cops & tried to keep us from going into that country. He said that we were taking the babys. To say the least we were scard & that man would not give up. Finally they made them let us go & oh how good it felt to get out of there. Now I don't want you to think this happens to everyone, it just happend to us. Oh! we did find Apirl on down the road just like we all knew she would be, but some of us thought that she would be at the hotel by then. lol Well that is about our crossing it was very hard, but the babys were very good thru it all, just not us.


Now on to Destiny, she is the best baby ever. She loves to go in the car, she loves to fly, & likes her car seat, & boy does she like to sleep. Just a great baby!
Since we got home, she is never alone. The kids are always wanting to take her somewhere or just hold her. We thought that when we got home she would start to cry louder. Well that did not happen. She still cries very, very little. It sounds like a kitty cat or a whale call. The kids can't tell if she is crying or laughing. It is so cute.


This is a photo of all the kids looking at there new baby sister, she is so loved.

This is our very happy baby, she has grown since we were there but not too much. She can't sit up yet with out help but likes to be put up.

Everyday is a new day & everyday she learns something new. She has learned so much since we came home. Well I guess I will tell you about that next time.

I hope the wait was not too long. I did miss posting & I am so GLAD to be home.

Love ya all! Thank you for the prayers they were needed.

Killing Time In Bishkek

I know it has been a long time since I wrote anything, but at the Golden Dragon you can’t get i-net in the room, & it cost a lot to go down stairs & use theirs. So that means that you have to be very quick to write anything, & if you know me that is not me. It also means that I can’t find out what is going on back home.
Things here have been interesting to say the least. The day we moved to this place the other two families that are staying here got sick. We have been very careful though. When they come to the table to pour you a glass of water I say “no thank you”, because I know that if I have a pretty glass of water sitting in front of me I will drink it. The first day they gave Terry some water before I could tell them no, & Terry had to work hard not to drink it. It did look good. Well they are all better now which is a very good thing.
Destiny is doing very good with her formula, with only one problem. She had two days of not being able to go potty. Well, mean old mom went to the store & got some prunes (baby food) Oh she loved that. lol. So I give her four bites of that then a drink. We started that last night by morning she was trying to go. She had a hard time but was able to have three diapers with some in it. So I thought that we would keep giving her that until we know that things are better. Other then that she does not like to take baths or feel like she is falling. So the last three days have been hard on her.

It was hard work on ALL of us!

Something that is a lot different is when we were here before we could walk around & people didn’t seem to know we were around. Well now that we have her with us people act like you have something that does not belong to you, they all stare & some will come over & glare at you, & if she cries, boy watch out. I don’t think any of the other families are having any problems. But their babies look like they could be theirs. Destiny does not look like us at all so we get all the looks. April told us that it will be better when we get to Almaty so I hope so. It is a little scary around here.
All the families are ready to go home. We do one thing then have two days off with nothing to do then we do that again. With all the days that we have had nothing to do we could have been done by now.
We miss you all & can’t wait until we can get to a place where we can talk to you or just read how others are doing.
As for photos can’t do that ether.
Love ya all!
Two chairs? or a Victorian Crib?

We Got Destiny!

Today was a good day. We got up & drove to the store, there we got cakes, cookies, tea, & champain. Then it was time to drive to where the babys were, we road with G & B in the van, & that will be who we ride to Alamty with.

Along the way you could see all the people out selling watermelon & other fruit, it was so nice to see it all going on. It was the longest ride there we had ever had, it seemed to take for ever. But then we were there. Our van had all the fruit so they drove right in while all the other cars parked out side. The first thing I saw was Gluela she had a baby in her hands. When I got there her gave me Noah to hold while she got Destiny out of the seat for me. She gave her to Terry to hold & I gave her back Noah & went to find Apirl. When I saw her I said he is over here, she started to cry & ran to him. I got some good photos for her of that It almost made me cry just seeing how happy she was. There is a long story for why she was crying but I will let her tell you on her blog.

I have to tell you that our care taker is the best lady here is, in our minds she saved Noahs life. You could tell that our babys were everything to her, she really loved them. When all the other care taker dropped off there babys she stayed. She told us in words that we could not understand, alot about the babys. She said that Noah is a go-go baby, & that Destiny is a oh well baby. He is the one that is very big voise & she is the one that you can't even hear. She told us that if you put them in Johnny jump ups, he is the go-go baby, & she just sits there. She is a very calm baby, just like she was when we first saw her. We know that will not be the same when we get home. With her cry we would not hear her it is so small.

When we got home she ate a little then sleeped the rest of the day tell now. But just like we thought she does like that daddy alot.

So I bet you would like to see her now. Well her she is!

Gluela had just changed her clothes & was giving her to us.
She is getting so big but still small. I don't think she got much new hair but she did lose a lot. The back of her head has a big spot with no hair on it, it looks very funny.
This is our group as we were getting ready to go, they were pushing us out the door so that Betsy could go meet her baby boy. She had just got there they were very happy at that time, & I wish I looked so good after I got off the plane.

Just to tell you all the babys in this photo are right around 5 monthes or very close to it.

Well I guess I will go check on thoughes two, but I know that they are fine.

Thank you for all your prays they mean so much to us.

Love Ya!

Tomorrow is the big day!

They told us to get lots of rest because tomorrow everything changes. How can you rest when the day of our reunion is so close!? All we can do is wait and the time just doesn't go fast enough! So off to bed and maybe time will pass quicker while we sleep. Tomorrow morning is almost here . . . (while you are getting ready for bed tonight, we'll be setting off to Tokmok to pick Destiny up). The news is that she has grown alot and has not been sick at all while we were gone. This is good news and we wonder just how big she has become . . . We'll let ya know . . .

We made it!

So the flights were for the most part good.

We had a good time in Chicago. We took a train downtown & walked to the Sears tower - the tallest building in North America! I think that made Terry's whole day. He loved all the big buildings. If you know me I never wanted to go to that side of the states. I know, call me chicken but I have seen every state this side of the Mississippi, been to the Bahamas, Mexico, & Canada, & of course all the places that we fly to get here. But I have had no reason to go over there. So I didn't want to go, too many people everywhere. Now I like people but not making me feel like they are in my bubble. I know I am crazy.

Well we made it to the Silk Road & tomorrow we go to the AMGH. So our hotel run around has started. The Silk Road is a nice place & the food is good, the beds are good - not too hard & the room is twice the size as the room we had at the AMGH last time we stayed here.

When we got to London we were the third family to get there. We didn't know that though, so we checked in got our gate number then walked around. We didn't see anyone until we got to the place we check in at. Then we saw D & R, they had just gotten off there flight. We started to walk around with them when we saw G & B. So we sat down with them then got something to drink. When you see the word milkshake over there that does not mean milkshake, that just means cold drink. I was really looking for a milkshake I love Milkshakes alot. So after the drink we walked to the gate. We still had not found Apirl & they were supposed to get there before any of us. Well just as we were getting ready to board there they came. We got to talk a little before we all got on the plane.

I think that was the worst flight we have had the whole time, we sat in the last row you could not move your seat, but the person in front of you could, there was only one window so you felt like you could not move a little bit. I felt like I was going to scream, if it would not have been Terry sitting next to me I would have cried. As the plane started to descend the roof started to leak on me. I think it was the air cooling that we "did not" have leaking on me. When I showed them the cup full of water that had came from there they said that they already knew about it. I am so happy that we will not be on that flight home. I know it was a full flight but that was bad.

So we are here & now we look forward to the road God leads us on. We know that sometime on that road God will give us Destiny to care for & love from now on. But for now God is just taking us anywhere he wants us to go. We hope all is going well back home & miss you all.

Oh!

They said we might get to go get her on Monday, I know that is a long shot but we are hoping they are right. And since that is when we wake up we will see.

Love you all,

Michele & Terry

We leave today!

Well tomorrow is the big day. We drive to Saltlake City to spend the night then get on the plane early the next morning. Then we will have a very long layover in Chicago, from there we will start our long flights. So this will most likely be my last post from home, tell we get there. This is a photo taken after we left by a friend that has been there for alot of us. She went over to meet her baby girl. Then things happend & everything was crazy for awhile, but after she got home things got better & now she is waiting to go back to get that very same baby girl that she fell in love with. Her family is in my prayers all the time, her blog is in my "good blogs".

As you can tell she is getting much fatter, but it is still the same eyes & cute little nose. Just a lot bigger cheeks, but if you look at her hands in the photo up above she is still very tiny in other places.
These were the last photos of her that we got, no one has been able to get any for me since then. They were taken in early May, so it has been a very long time since we saw her. I know that the other people that we are travelling with got photos of there babys though. So it is hard to guess what she looks like now, or how big she is getting. But there is a bright spot in all this, in 6 days I will be holding her. That is if I can get her away from her daddy.lol
Will I still have some things to do so I guess this is goodbye for now.
Please keep all us that are travelling back in your prayers.
"Apirl & her sister, Richard & Dominique, Burt & Gem, & us".
There are two familys that are not in our group going to meet there babys the same time.
We thank you for all the prayers that has got us this far & ask for more along the way.
Love always

Thanks for the prays!

I would like to say thank you to all the people that prayed for all of us. Your prayers payed off. We get to go back this week to go pick up our very sweet baby girl.
The wait has been hard but the end is coming, & then we will start a new joy of our life. It is the joy that we have been waiting for for over a year. To be able to hold her in our arms again, to kiss that cheek, to hold that hand, & to look in thoughs eyes again. It is a dream that I have been waiting for along time.
So now we just have to get though this week, & one week from today we will get to hold her again. So if I say it 100,000 times it is not as many times as I should. Thank you to all of you, but I can never say thank you to many times to God he is the hands that made all this happen.
Last night I asked my yahoo group to pray & alot of people did, they all said that they would be glad to do that for us. I have always known that the power of prayer is very strong but today & last night I saw it. You guys rock!
Will this is a photo of the lady that is taking care of her while we are gone. I don't know who took this photo but I would know that face anywhere. I guess if you look at something so hard that you want to remember every little line you just know. I would love to know who took this photo. To me it looks like it was taken right after we left.
This is also a photo that we got from some people that were over meeting there baby girl, I love that they are putting her in the clothes that we got her, that is a sleep sack that they had over there that you just put her in. It is just like a sleeping bag for babys. When we first got it you could put Noah & Destiny both in it. That is how small they both were. Oh Noah is a nother persons baby that are going back to get him at the same time. He is in the same room & has the same care taker.
We can't wait to go back, but for now it is time for bed.
Thanks again!
We love you all

Need prays!

Will today we ask all that read this to please pray that the judge comes to work today & signs our paper work.
If he comes to work we get to go back on Thursday but if he does not go to work tonight then we do not get to go back this week. That will make it two weeks that we have to change our plans. It is not easy to get all that stuff changed.
So far on this trip if we get to go we will be staying in at least four hotels. The first two days we get to stay at the Silk Road, the next two days we stay at the Asian mountain. Then the next two days we have no clue were we are staying at, after that we get to stay at the Golden Dragon. So to say the least we will have tried most of the hotels out over there. I'm not to happy about having to move around that much but you got to do what you can to bring your baby home. And I guess I should look at this way, boy do we get to see the town.lol Also I will know more about the hotels over there then anyone on our yahoo group, & they will need to know which hotel is the best to stay in. So that means I will be writing about that when we get home.
As for photos everyone that I had asked to get us photos were not able to get us any, they all forgot. So we have no idea how she looks or how big she is getting. I guess I could look at this way, it is just like when we went over there we didn't have any idea what she looked like then ether.lol So sometime we just got to fly by the seat of our pants & pray for the best. For God knows the right time & the right place for everything.
So if we could ask you again if you could pray for this man to sign our papers tonight so that we can go back this week. You could say that you helped us bring our baby home, & that would mean so much to us.
Please pray anytime tonight for it is Monday over there & that is when he had his meeting for us.
Thanks for the prayers!

Just a little sad.

Will we should be on the plane right now, but a lot has happend in last couple of days. We were going to go still, but thought that the cost would be to much & since they would not let us take her out of there that it would be no good going anyway. So we lot everything, lost are hotels in both places, are way to get there, & we can't come back tell two days after everyone else comes home. So if you can't tell I am just a little bummed.
I know that it is all in God's hands & that we could use the time to get things ready. But it just is sad. I just know that we should have gone anyway & take the leap of faith that the man would get better & we could get her out of there. For who knows he could be back at work today & put him name on the paper & we could have got her to the hotel & started to become a family. But I guess we will never know what could of happend if we had gone. So we got our tickets change & now we leave on Thursday one week later then last time. But we don't come home tell Aug. the 2nd. So will get her home just before my grandma's birthday. To think they told us that we would have her home before she was 3 1/2 months when we were there last time boy how things change. Now she will be 51/3 months old when she comes home.
I guess I should look at the good side of it, if she would have been in another town she still would not be coming home yet. The poor people that have babies over there have no clue when they will get to go get there babies. Some of them have been waiting since Dec. & are still waiting. I pray for them all the time. Just hoping that things get better & that they get to go back soon. So if I could ask you to pray for the people over there to get well & all our stuff to turn out with our trip that would mean so much to us.
We thank you for all your prays so far & ask that you keep us in your prays & all the other family's that are waiting to go back.
We know it is all in his time & just wait it will happen, but just a little sad for now.
We love you all take care!

Three days tell we leave!

Alot to do & very little time to get it done, it is going so fast that it is scary.
It is like you dream of this day coming up. Then it gets closer & you start to think am I doing the right thing. Then you think back & know how this all started. It didn't start a year ago, it started years ago before we ever had kids. We knew that we would be doing this. Now that it is all findly happening it is just a little scary. I don't know what it is like to never be able to have my own kids, but I do know what it is like to lose a baby not ready to be born yet. We have been thru alot but this is a very hard thing to go thru. (now I know what they say about adoption not being easy, & sometimes I think it is harder then having them yourself)
Lately people have been writing about scary things that are happening over there, & it makes you want to run over there & get her out of there as fast as you can. (but) To have to sit back & wait tell it is time & know that they could be doing these things to your baby is just driving me crazy. You know that if she was here she would not have these things happening to her.
Then you think again God gave you this baby & he knows what we can take & what we can not.
So putting my hopes in him I know that all will be OK, & in his time we will be holding her safe in our arms. ( safe in my arms is a song by Plumb) It you have not heard that song you should it will make you cry I know it always does to me.
She has him wrapped around her little finger. If he made a face she would try to do it also.
When we were told that we had to leave clothes for her I found this little outfit at least it looked little before we put it on her. So I can't wait to see her in it when we get back.
She was so tiny that you could not find her in it. You had to keep pushing it up so you could see her hand & her feet were half way down the leg. You could put both legs in one hole.
I hope these photos help you see that the babys over there are so cute, & no matter how bad things look there is a light at the end of the tunnel for God will take care of you & your little ones.

Five days tell we go!

We hope all had a great fourth. We had a nice fourth also, we went to the park & watched the fireworkes. And just like years before they started it with a big mushroom cloud. The kids really like that they think it is so cool.
We are in the count down mode now so everyday it gets a little closer to time to go.
In so many ways it is good because we will get to bring her home. But in other ways it is srary to think we get to bring her home. There is so much more I need to do before we bring her home. Just getting the home ready is a very very big task. Then you talk about leaving five teens here that is scary,(the oldest being 21) because if we get the home clean before we go. Will be the luckest people on this earth if we come home to a clean home. I know that is just a dream not something that is likely to happen.
We have got all the plans done, but one thing is not done yet. We still haven't got our stay in Almaty yet, we did e-mail them but just have not heard back from them yet. I guess that I will have to call them & find out what is going on.
So wish us luck in finding out if we have our stay or not.

She sleeps so cute, can't wait to see her sleep again. To hold her in our arms again is going to be so good.
When you look in thoughes eyes you just know you could love her. She just looks at you & you know you where meant to be her mommy. She so cute, tiny, & full of it. We don't know what it is that she is full of but can't wait to find out.

Nine more days tell we go!

Things are getting so crazy. The time is going so fast soon we will be going 1/2 way around the world & getting our baby girl.

We still have so much to do to get ready to go. We have our plane tickets & our stay in Bishkek. The things that we don't have is a way to get to Bishkek from Almaty, & stay in Almaty so things are taking a little while to get done. We know that it will all get done soon or later. It is all in God's time. That is what counts to let God take control & just let things happen the way he planned it to happen.

She loved her daddy if you couldn't tell. She would try to make any face that he made.
When you look in those eyes you can see so much fun waiting to happen. She is going to bring so much life & fun to this already crazy family. The days are getting closer to the time when we bring them all together as one family. I CAN'T WAIT!!

What is going on!

Sorry it has been a long time since I posted, but we have so much to do.



Since they made our dates, we are now going to our family thing in OR next weekend. So now we are trying to make stays for both trips. It should be fun to see the people that we haven't seen in years. We were hoping that we would have her home before then but that didn't happen. So now we can take photos of her & know that in just a little while she will be in our arms. I guess that it is a good thing we will not have to take all her stuff with us so the car will not be as full. All the other kids are home so it will still be full. We are looking to have fun with everyone for the last trip before we bring home number 6.



We are waiting for our coordinator to tell us if they can get us visas for Kaz. So that we can get our plane tickets. It is hard because we know that it is not getting cheaper while we wait. I hope we can still get the tickets at the same price they told us this week next week, but that is in Gods hands.



So I bet you are wondering when we go back.



Will we go back soon!

I can't beleave that we will be holding her in our arms in just a little while.


We have no one over there that can take photos so we don't know how big she is getting or how she is doing. So I called Brent & asked him if he could get photos for us, but I didn't want photos for just us but for everyone that is waiting to go back with AO. He said he would try, that night I had a message on my phone saying that they will take photos for us in two weeks. When all the people get back from their trip. So maybe we will get a photo before we leave, if not at least everyone else will. I know the wait is hard for everyone so sometimes just a photo means so much.

So I want to put one of thoughs counters on here but I don't know how. Does anyone reading this know how?


Would you like to see more?


Here is our little one on day two of trip one.

She always has her mouth open, but never saying anything. The first two days we thought they didn't change her clothes she was in the same ones both days. But she always looked clean.

Will that is a little of what we are doing right now, & a look at thoughs eyes.

Take care, we love you all, & please keep us in your prays.

Psalm5:11-12

We get to go back!!

Will if you didn't catch the title we got dates. It is so good to know that we will get to go back sometime soon. It is not as soon as we would like it to be, but just having dates is good. At least she won't be walking yet when we go back.

Will how about some photos.

This is our veiw from the other side the first day. She is getting ready to let us hold her.

This is daddy getting to hold her first, he loved that. She was so tiny. There was three layers of clothes on her, but she still looked so very tiny.

Hope you liked the peek.

Take care, Michele

If only!

If only we were on a plane today. Then things would seem so much happier. ( at least that is what we would love to believe ) But we all know that we have too much to do still, & that it is in Gods time not ours.


If we were going by what they told us over there we would have left today, but the people over here don't think that is right. They have not even asked them as far as we can tell. So we keep praying that they will call them & let us know something. It seems like they should tell us something.


The wait seems to be getting harder everyday, you just wish you could be with her. But then you feel bad because you have so much here to love & do. The kids are all home so it is so nice to have them all here. It's just that we wanted to get her home before some of them leave, also we have a family get together at the end of this month that we were hoping to take her to. Most of those people might not get to see her any other way.


Will I guess that is about all of the boohooing I should be doing.


I know, put my trust in God & let him take control. He has the right time & place for everything.



Will here is some photos for you:

She had very tiny hands.
This is the first time we ever saw her. We didn't get a photo before we went over so this is what we saw. We didn't even now that was her, 'til just then.

Hope you liked the photos.

Thanks for reading my blog. Sorry so bummed.

Love all ya,

Michele

Court is done!

Will today we got an email saying that she is ours.. It didn't say when we go back & it didn't say they even talked to the people over there. So it didn't tell us anything we didn't already know. We knew that court was going to be on this week already.

The wait has been hard, but not as hard as some had said it would be. I think the hard part is about to start. Now that she is ours & the time that they told us over "there" is coming up fast. The wait well be alot harder.

So we have been waiting to put up photos of her tell we knew that she was ours. So here is a teaser, I thought that I would put up a new photo everytime I post from now on.

She has very long feet & toes. Maybe she well be taller then we thought she would be.

We hope that we well be finding out something soon. So if you could pray that they call over there & find out when we go back. We beleave that the more prayers that we get the more God here's our hopes & dreams.

She is 3 months

I know that it has been a long time but I just wanted to say. She is 3 months old today. She is getting big with out us, but we know she is doing ok. She has a care taker, but most of all she has God. She also has all of you praying for her.
We would like to ask you to keep her in your prayer this week. As we hope to heir something this week.
I have been working everyday this week so today is the first day that I only have to work one job. It has been fun though I have been working the Cirque Du Soleil & if you haven't seen them you should they are very good.
I will be writing more soon as we know more.

No news is good news?

It seems like a long time since I wrote anything on this blog, will I guess it has been. It just that nothing has been happening so far. We are still waiting to here anything about how she is doing, how big she is, & just how she is growing.
We have some great people over there right now that hopfully will let us know how she is doing. We can't wait to here from them. It is what we wait for some news, any news would be nice.
I will write more soon, Michele

We are home!

We made it home but I have been working everyday so far. I just got back from a Newsboys concert. It was very good. If you have not seen them you should, they have a lot of very good songs.
The trip was very good. But when I go back, I will take a air mattress with us. If you have not been there before there beds are very hard. We thought that it was just our place, but then we talked to other people & found out it was a lot of places. So we will take one next time.
You would not guess what happend on the way back would you. Well if you "Guessed" we lost our luggage again you are right. If you are going to go though Londen we were told "good luck" well they were right. Londen took our luggage both ways, I guess they must like bags of all looks. So if you go that way take clothes in your bag in hand, we did & was very glad we did.
So I know that this is short, but I just wanted to let you know we got home safe.
Love, Michele

Busy, busy, busy . . .

Well alot has happend since I last wrote anything. On Sunday we went to the Interantional Church, everyone spoke something like us. We sang in English, it was very good. If we didn't have a baby visit next Sunday we would go again.
Also we are now getting to see the baby's everyday. WooHoo!!! This is good. We are taking lots of photos of her & we got the cutest video of her hickuping. That will get me through the long wait. She thinks that it is funny to hickup. So she smiles alot. She can make many different faces. It is so cute. Everyday we see her we wish it were longer. Anytime Terry holds her she just watches him & tries to make the same face - I think. At least that is what it looks like from were I am sitting. I think she is going to be a daddy's girl for sure. Watch out girls she has got him already. She has very pretty skin & very long fingers. She is still very tiny, but we think she looks just the right size for her. We can't wait to show you all the photos but we will wait for her to be all ours first.
After our visit each day, we go out on the town - walking everywhere. It has been a very good trip so far. At the Asian Mountains where we are staying we can walk to everything. All the big shops are close and food is all over the place. It is not a big fancy place but it gives us what we need & is "down home" feeling. We got the $70 room this time but next time we will get the $80 room because it is alot bigger. With the baby we might need it. We look at this way, why pay so much for fancy when we just want to bring our baby home. With the price that we will have to pay when we get to Kaz. this is better. We can get fancy after we get her. The people are nice here & we can understand them which is good. Well I am getting tired so I will try to write later. Love you all. You are in our prayers.
Oh, for the people I got photos for I will get you more right before we come home. Alot can change in a short time - as we all know. God bless you all this week. Love, Michele

Day three with baby!

Today was a very good day. We got to spend alot more time with her today it was good. She smiled, ate, & filled her diaper. Yes they do were them, at least over there. They ask you to go buy them for them, & also the formula they will be using while you are gone. The formula is because the good stuff is a lot more then they can pay for it. So if you want the best, you buy it for them. Thats ok at least we know she is getting it.


We got to go at the same time today, so I got to see are travel buddys baby also he is very cute. Very tiny just like ours but a little whiter in color. They are very happy with him. We all our not looking forward to saying good bye in a week or so.


It was cloudy today or it could of been the smog, no wind to blow it away.


We have tired many places to eat most things are very good. But the place everyone should go to is the Jalalabad. It is so good & cheap for everything you get. Very beautiful you have to eat out side, but you take off your shoes & sit at a low table. It is very romantic for two, & classy for a group of people. The monty was very good & the kabab was very good. It is native food & a must for all. We will be going back for sure.

Yesterday we were out getting lunch at the end of the street (which has menus you can read). It is across the street from a big mosque. These pictures are not it but two other little ones. While we were watching, the men all began to go in. You had men, boys, & toddlers all going in (no women or girls). It strarted with men walking there with their mat, but then they started running to get in. At one point there was a young man who ran by in his boxers & a t-shirt - no shoes, just his mat. More and more people began running, trying to get in. And then all of sudden some were coming back all sad, lots of them. They were the ones that did not get in.
They started their worship & in a very short time they were done. We watched that & wished people would try to get to church so bad, that they would run to make it on time. It was cool to see the way people do things here. This trip has had alot of good so far. We hope it keeps getting better. May God bless all that read this & know you are loved. Michele

The Beauty All Around Us!

This is the border of Kazahstan when we look out the widow on a clear day. It is so cool to see all this.

You can see sheep out on the grass if you look hard.

Oh!!! this one is not Kaz., this is China. The others are Kaz.

I like the way some get to work, (nice ride).
The hills are alive with the sound of music.

Now this is talking big! These are China. Is that not the prettiest thing you have seen in a long time. It is breath taking. God is so awesome that is what these people see if they look.
But I guess if you see it one day you've it all. For me it is just the best. I am so thankful that we get to come here & see this. I can't say it enough God is good. We are hoping to go to the mountains some time while we are here. We hear they are prettier up there.
How could you not like this view, people would pay millions to have this view.
So now you know what you see out the windows to the side, on the way & back. But if you look out the front you see all the holes in the road, the animals crossing, & the cars coming right for you. So that is why I look out the sides.
Damian after I get back I will be ready to ride with you. We miss every one at home but know you are in good hands. With those hands & Gods I know you are safe.
Love, Michele