Merry Christmas!

First things first....Happy Birthday Jesus!

Let me finally introduce our beautiful baby girl. This is Cen Jia Huan from the Jiangxi Province and is currently waiting for us in Hengfeng County.

I had a few polls on the side bar with guessing her age, province and name.

We already know we were naming her Emma Grace, and the polls for her age and Province were hit head on. She's 10 months old referral and is in the Province of Jiangxi.

This blog as of today is retiring. We have had this blog up for more then 4.5 yrs as our Waiting for Emma blog. Well we're on our 2nd part of this journey now as we're not longer waiting. If, you were a following of this blog, please follow us on our new one click here for link. Thanks again for all your support, comments and prayers over the course of the years. May God Bless all of you - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Emma's photos

I'm so sorry I haven't posted her pictures here yet, but with good reason! They will be posted on Christmas Day!! And after that...this blog will come to an end as we're starting in the 2nd half of this Journey with a NEW BLOG!! I have kept this blog up for more then 4.5 years and now that we have began the final part of our Journey, we need a new LQQK! I will on Christmas Day post our link to our new blog as i'm trying to build it now!

For years, we have been told - believe in us, when you see your daugthers face for the first time, the wait will disappear and it has. We had the biggest weight lifted off our shoulders at Thanksgiving, know we missed the cut off date by one day! The feeling of knowing we were next no matter what! And that it didn't matter what that cut off date was, because we knew we were NEXT.

So, for those of you who missed that cut off date, please know that that feeling is just as wonderful and what's a few more weeks! Two of my dearest friends in our group were both logged in on the 11th and I was so disappointed that they didn't make it in, got a surprise call of their life, they both got referrals and our group is complete and I get to travel with 5 of my favorite girls.

God, does work in mysterious ways and he will move mountains! He made us wait with good reasons, and when you see Emma - you will know why. God is good all the TIME!!

Trust me, you're going want to come back on Christmas Day!!

Merry Christmas everyone, and Happy Birthday Jesus, we have been so BLESSED.

We are so in LOVE!

Today, we received "THE CALL" of a life time. We are so much in love with this precious baby girl. Will post photos later...they were messed up in the email and are being resent tomorrow.

A little bit about our beautiful baby girl:

Name: Cen Jia Huan
DOB: 2/10/2011
Gender: Female
Province: Jiangxi
Orphanage: Social Welfare Institute of Hengfeng County

She's 10 months old and oh my gosh, once again we are so in love. GOD has picked out the prefect baby for our family. Now we understand why the wait was so long. She was so worth every minute of this 5 yr, 4 mos, 1 week and 5 days...we recorded our call, as we wanted it as a keep sake for Emma. Sam joined us in the call and he was the one who was excited about opening up her pictures. He said Mom...she is just beautiful and now this big brother can't wait to bring her home. That's makes me so very happy to here him say that.

We were certainly overwhelmed with JOY!! Our Heavenly Father is GOOD and all the time he is...thank you Jesus. What a fabulous Christmas gift she is. FINALLY our wait it over!! Emma, sweet Emma we love you, more then you know.

Referral update and gift!!

Today, is going to be one awesome day! It's referral day! That's right...we are waiting for "THE CALL" to come in. The package is on the it's way to our agency and 4 of us are once again patiently waiting...come on Stork Fly, Fly Stork!

In the meantime - I ran over to walmart to grab a few things and when I got home. Someone besides myself pulled up in the drive-way. It was a friend of mind who couldn't make it to the baby shower. Jerri and her daughter Megan dropped off this beautiful gift for Emma.

Love, Love, Love it all!!

For those of you who are friends with me on facebook and are not part of my Church family...send me a message if you want to see Emma. I'm hiding her out until Christmas Day on one of my special sites so that I / we can show our video on Christmas morning at our Church service. Then on Christmas morning - I will publish her photos here.

Thank you so much Jerri and Megan for this sweet gift for our little ladybug.