Go get my baby sister from China!

China Travel Dates

We received our airline tickets yesterday. WooHoo! We will be traveling to China to get our sweet baby girl on December 6th and returning on December 22nd. Sixteen days! We are responsible for our in and out of China flights and our agency is responsible for in country flights and all hotels. We do not have our itinarary from our agency yet, but this is tentatively how it is suppose to go:

12/6 - Flight to Beijing (DFW to Tokyo to Beijing)
12/7 - Arrive in Bejing (We will lose a day)
12/8-12/10 - Beijing Sightseeing
12/11 - Fly to Nanchang and get our girl that day!
12/11-12/16 - Local Adoption Paperwork in Nanchang, Jiangxi
12/17 - Fly to Guanzhou
12/17-12/21 - Visa Medical Exam and Visa Processing in Guanzhou (Home of US Consulate)
12/22 - Journey Home (Guanzhou to Tokyo to DFW) Just in time for Christmas!

Once we know more we will post the official itinarary...until then rest assured that we are happily Christmas shopping, preparing, and packing as we are less than two weeks from leaving!

One Set of Footprints

A couple of posts ago Jamie told you how we met a couple on the Nanfeng Orphanage Group on Yahoo Groups. The couple recently adopted from China a little girl from the same orphanage Noelle lives in-Nanfeng SWI. A couple of weeks ago Stephen and his wife sent some pictures of Noelle and yesterday we received the video. This is such a miracle- its just amazing. What a unique and unusual blessing to be able to get video of our daughter before we go to China! We feel so thankful to the Lord for this. What a kind Father in heaven we have that He would go out of his way to arrange something like this for us! The video shows Noelle being held by a caretaker at first, then it shows her looking around curiously, yawning, and then it shows her being rolled around in her walker and smiling about it. How amazing- thank you Lord, clearly this is a time when we will look back and see one set of footprints in the sand...