We made it!

We made it--we're here! The kids did great on the flight, and so did I :).  They really were great travelers- thanks so much for praying for us.

We were met by good friends at the airport, and taken back to their place for a dinner of dumplings with some of our dearest friends here. It was so wonderful! Woke up today at 430am and went and got our favorite Chinese breakfast street food. (Will ate so much he almost got sick haha) Once we get the internet working at the apartment will post some pictures. :) 

A Great Adventure

I have told my kids that tomorrow we are going on a great adventure, because really that is what this trip feels like.  Truthfully though these last few weeks have already seemed like a great adventure, with finishing up our Both Hands project, buying plane tickets, an unexpected surgery (part of my thyroid removed), Christmas and preparing to leave.  We are so thankful and have seen the Lord provide for us through so many people through many gifts given towards our adoption, many meals brought to our home, and lots of help with our kids (thanks mom and dad!). Thank you so much to our friends and family that have gotten us to this point.

This trip is mainly about going to bring home our little Ava Maye but we are also doing a lot of other things on this trip.  I will give a brief itinerary in case you don’t want to read about everything we are doing and then you can just check in at the part where we get Ava. J

Dec 28^th- leave for Shanghai

Dec 29^th- Jan 4^th- in Shanghai with friends (yay!) Dennis furiously lesson planning from afar

Jan 4^th- train down to Guangzhou

Jan 6^th- We get to visit SWA’s partner orphanages for Christmas in the Orphanage, a program our agency does each year

Jan 7-11^th- in Guangzhou? Still undecided

Jan 12^th- we think this is the day we will meet Ava (still need one more piece of paperwork)

Jan 12-25^th- in Guangzhou finishing up the adoption

Jan 25^th fly back to America

Please pray for safe and smooth travels and that we might even sort of enjoy the long flight?? Yea, probably not.

Will check in on the other side.

These 2 are pretty excited J