Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Time flies.....
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
We are leaving for China tomorrow!
Our son Cameron Lee Xu Jian Paul
Monday, March 8, 2010
Adoption Update
- Spring 2006 Apply to AWAA for china
- March 2007 we are DTC ("Date to China", which means that our dossier has been completed and sent to china)
- April 2007 LID (we get a log in date with the CCAA, the Chinese adoption organization)
- June 2008 Renew Immigration paperwork, homestudy, fingerprints
- November/December 2009 Renew Immigration paperwork, homestudy, fingerprints
- February 2010 Apply for Waiting Children program through AWAA (Special needs children)
- February 10, 2010 see referral for our little boy
- February 11, 2010 sent in EA. or electronic acceptance to CCAA
- March 4, 2010 received PA or pre-approval to adopt little boy
- RA or referral acceptance, we will get this when someone at the CCAA looks over our dossier and says that we can officially proceed with the adoption of our little one.
- TA or travel acceptance, once we get this we will be able to start on our travel plans with our agency
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Family happenings and adoption update
I was three here. I think my brother was Casper.
I'm not sure what year this was but I 'm sure I loved the tutu outfit.
Again, not sure how old I am here. But at least this is one of the few school pictures that I actually like and am willing to share with the world.
As far as our adoption, please continue to pray for us. There were a lot of rumors that a speed up in referrals would happen in the fall and so far that is not happening at all. We were waiting until December to see how things were panning out. What we know so far is that we have been waiting for 31 months and the wait continues to grow. We are currently looking into some other options and again would covet your prayers. We both still want to be parents and still want to adopt from China. We want to make good decisions about our adoption, not just desparate ones, if that makes sense. So..no great news but we are trying to move forward a little bit at a time.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Smoke Days
The sun around noon.
A little better around 3 pm
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Summer is here!
A note about our adoption, we passed our 2 year LID anniversary in April. this means that our paperwork has officially been in China for a little over 2 years. Our dossier has also made it through the review room which means somebody went through our documents and they were okay. You can pray for us that God would give us direction about our adoption as we wait. The current wait time is about 40 months but it grows every month. We are considering some other options as we wait. There is the waiting children program in China which specifically is adopting children with minor medical conditions. We have been thinking about fost/adopt too. We have given ourselves until December to see if there is any speed up in the referral process before we dive into any other options. In the meantime we are trying to educate ourselves about these alternatives.
Here are some pictures of our trip. There are some more posted on FB.
Spending time with Jon and Maria Szabo and their three girls.
Pescadero State Beach
Point Arena Light House
Patrick's Point State Beach
Half Moon Bay State Beach
Agate Beach at Patrick's Point