From Vietnam to North Dakota to Tulsa: The story of God's amazing adoption journey for our family.
Finally, beautiful autumn weather has arrived! We are enjoying the cooler temperatures, the change in wardrobe, and the orange all around us (ha, ha!).Thursday we returned to the airport where Sarah was welcomed home just a few weeks ago, to welcome home Annabella from Vietnam. She is adorable! Her two brothers and her sister were very excited to see their parents and new sister and Bella did great. Our local group is almost complete with just two more to travel soon....until more referrals, of course. After the airport Sarah, Avi Joy and Lukas went to McDonald's (with parents, of course) and Sarah had her very first Happy Meal. She has now truly experienced America! After that, we made a quick stop at the local Vietnamese market where we were reminded of the sights and smells of VN. The only thing that Sarah and Luke found facinating about the market was a cardboard box to sit in.This weekend was OSU's homecoming, so we hit the annual walk-around in Stillwater Friday night. For those of you who don't know much about O-State, they boast of having the largest and best homecoming celebration in the country. The fraternities and sororities create multi-story lawn displays made out of welded frames, chicken wire, and tissue paper (similar to parade float construction). This is the main attraction for the walk-around, but there is also music, food, and other carnival festivities. Sarah seemed to really enjoy her first visit to my alma mater, and maybe she will follow in her mother's and her grandparent's footsteps and go to school there. We are working on surrounding her with lots of orange!Saturday we visited a local pumpkin patch with my parents. Sarah loved seeing the animals and taking a ride in the wheelbarrow.Sarah continues to surprise us with how quickly she is adjusting and developing. When we first got her she was only rolling around on the floor. She quickly went to army crawling. Now she is getting up on her knees to crawl and will take (wobbly) steps with us holding her hands. She'll be walking before we know it!
she is SOOOO cute!! love that little striped sweater! kayla loves animals, too -- wish you would move out here and they could play together... hint hint! :)
She is just too cute. I love her big sweater! She is adjusting and doing so well. I just can't wait to get to Vietnam for our Lucy.
Looks like Sarah had a great time with the animals and pumpkins. Maybe I've already told you this, but she reminds me SO MUCH of my now 5 year old daughter, Ava, when she was Sarah's age. I'm happy to hear she is adjusting well. She certainly looks very happy in the pictures! Thanks for the update on Annabella too! Glad to hear they are home :)
You guys look like sunch a happy family! Congratulations. I hope you don't mind, I added a link to you on my blog, http://bringinghomebe.blogspot.com . It's been great reading about your journey as we work our way through the process. Take a look at www.cafepress.com/bringinghomebe if you have a spare moment. I used to be a graphic designer and have created a bunch of vietnamese adoption related designs that you might like.Again, CONGRATULATIONS!
Sarah is SO precious! I'm so excited for ya'll. How neat that you have a group of other Vietnamese adoptive families! We drove through Tulsa on Wednesday and heard about the homecoming- but not until it was too late!!! We would have loved to have been there. Anyways- Sarah really IS adorable!!!
Heather and Michael,Thanks so much for your prayer...we continue to need it desperately. We can't be specific now, but we will let you know as soon as we can. We can't find your e-mail address. Please e-mail it to us. When you can...
Hello Heather,Thank you for your post on our blog. You may have noticed that I have your blog linked on our page. I hope you don't mind. When we made the switch to Vietnam from Korea we were sad and confused with God's plan for our family. During our decision making process I was led to your blog from the Korea forum. In fact it was the first blog I ever came across.(Which was not by accident!) In reading your blog I became excited about our switch and gained a peace in my heart that our child was in Vietnam. All I can say is that you never know how God will use you. So I put your link on our blog because I wanted our friends and family to see and read about your faith and journey. I just hope that our blog and journey will bless another family as your journey has blessed ours. Elisabeth
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she is SOOOO cute!! love that little striped sweater! kayla loves animals, too -- wish you would move out here and they could play together... hint hint! :)
She is just too cute. I love her big sweater! She is adjusting and doing so well. I just can't wait to get to Vietnam for our Lucy.
Looks like Sarah had a great time with the animals and pumpkins. Maybe I've already told you this, but she reminds me SO MUCH of my now 5 year old daughter, Ava, when she was Sarah's age. I'm happy to hear she is adjusting well. She certainly looks very happy in the pictures! Thanks for the update on Annabella too! Glad to hear they are home :)
You guys look like sunch a happy family! Congratulations. I hope you don't mind, I added a link to you on my blog, http://bringinghomebe.blogspot.com . It's been great reading about your journey as we work our way through the process. Take a look at www.cafepress.com/bringinghomebe if you have a spare moment. I used to be a graphic designer and have created a bunch of vietnamese adoption related designs that you might like.
Again, CONGRATULATIONS!
Sarah is SO precious! I'm so excited for ya'll. How neat that you have a group of other Vietnamese adoptive families! We drove through Tulsa on Wednesday and heard about the homecoming- but not until it was too late!!! We would have loved to have been there. Anyways- Sarah really IS adorable!!!
Heather and Michael,
Thanks so much for your prayer...we continue to need it desperately.
We can't be specific now, but we will let you know as soon as we can.
We can't find your e-mail address. Please e-mail it to us. When you can...
Hello Heather,
Thank you for your post on our blog. You may have noticed that I have your blog linked on our page. I hope you don't mind. When we made the switch to Vietnam from Korea we were sad and confused with God's plan for our family. During our decision making process I was led to your blog from the Korea forum. In fact it was the first blog I ever came across.(Which was not by accident!) In reading your blog I became excited about our switch and gained a peace in my heart that our child was in Vietnam. All I can say is that you never know how God will use you. So I put your link on our blog because I wanted our friends and family to see and read about your faith and journey. I just hope that our blog and journey will bless another family as your journey has blessed ours.
Elisabeth
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