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Gotcha day

Our 'Gotcha Day' Anniversary as its known was March 28th last Wednesday. We had a little party planned for Jade with our favorite friends but she ended up with strep throat and DOUBLE ear infections. She has tubes but apparently she's in the 20% of the babes that still get infections. OH JOY! So, she was miserable and we just ordered Chinese take out and watched our video from China for the first time!! It brought tears to our eyes and lots of joy of the time spent there last year as a family and bringing Jade home. We were hoping to see our friends Staci and Emilee as they were down in Orlando but we couldnt work it out. We'll plan a trip up to see you guys in NYC Staci!!!! Here are pics of Gotcha Day and Gotcha Day 1st anniversary :>))))

Baseball game

Jade loves being outside and yesterday was Luke's baseball game. The weather here is so nice right now, if it would just stay this perfect. Seems every summer I want to move from Florida! More of an update on our Jadey to follow later....

Sports Illustrated Model 2025

We're ready for summer!!!

Chinese New Year 2007

We spent the afternoon at Saddlebrook celebrating Chinese New Year with over 300 other people yesterday! It was alot of fun to see all the adopted girls and their families. Some we have known through the community and we got to see Anna from St. Pete, Jade's Orphanage Sister. Our Chinese Princess decided she didnt want to be like everyone else on stage ,she wanted to stand out...so she pulled up her dress and spent part of the afternoon walking around like this.....:>)))

FL cutest baby photo contest

Ok so here's the deal: On/After Feb 1st you can help raise money for breast cancer research and at the same time help Jade win some prizes :>))) Go to www.cutestbabyfl.com and then to the voting section. You will see Jade in her purple Valentine's LOVE shirt. You can vote as much/often as you wish and it is only $7 a vote. The one with the most votes wins, simple!!! It's also for a great cause, I'm sure we all know someone who has been affected by breast cancer. Thankyou!

Referral Anniversary

If your reading this, your going to get tired of hearing about the Anniversary Celebrations coming up! In the adoption community we are celebrating today because it was a year ago that we were all glued to our computer chairs and jumped if the phone rang thinking it was our agency. Mike came home from work at noon, the boys were lingering around, My Mom was here and my sister in law Danielle with Jacob in tow. Our friends Charleen and her daughters were here, bringing a beautiful bouquet of flowers to celebrate. Friends popped in and out hoping to get a peek of the eagerly awaited baby girl. At 5:30 'the call' came with the news that Qian Xue Han in Qianjiang Orpahange awaited her family. We were told of her birthday of May 28, 2005...smack dab in the middle of all her brothers birthdays :>) and that she was found in old cotton clothing at the gate of a cultural park at 3 days old. Shortly after we were sent these beautiful pictures and life began taking on the excitement of our travel to China and our daughter's journey home with us. Looking at this little ray of sunshine now, its hard to imagine that her life started out any way other than perfect. But its the way that led her to us and us to her.

Orphanage Sisters

Today was alot of fun! We met 2 of Jade's Orphanage sisters and their families that we traveled with in China. Keira now lives in Maryland and Anna lives in St. Pete. We met at Myakka state park and spent the afternoon letting the girls play! I like to think they knew each other but its hard to tell. In June our entire travel group and the babes will get together so we cant wait for that!

2007 WOW

Happy New Year! Jade is starting to talk and can say Mama, Dada, Ryan, Luke, Willi, Max, more, hi, peeeshhh(please, and oh so cute) and thankyou, says NOOOOOOOOOO and uhhuh for yes. She gets into everything!!! I love this age but I'm exhausted :>) You can see in the one pic how long her hair is and still has some curl which I WILL NOT cut anytime soon! I'm having a ball with hairbows and even bought a book on how to braid..heehee...yes I know I'm a silly Mama!

Christmas 2006

Merry Christmas to you all! We had a great day and are so thankful for a healthy, sweet and complete family! Jade was a bit under the weather with a sinus thing going on but she enjoyed ripping her gifts open, playing with her brothers toys and taunting Max with her candy. She dawdled a bit, ate a bite or two and napped a few hours then resumed her unwrapping and finished up about 4:00 today! I was saddened for a moment thinking about her last year and how badly we wanted to have her by Christmas day. Please pray for those children who dont have homes and are waiting to be adopted or are left behind for good. I cant imagine our lives without our little Angel!

Jade and Max kissing

EPCOT 12/2

Mike's Christmas party was at EPCOT this year so we went this past weekend and had a great time! It was beautiful all decorated and the weather wasnt too cold or hot. Jade had a great time and brothers had fun showing her the sights! Here are some of the latest pictures.

Trick or Treat!

Happy Halloween to everyone! Here's some pics of our family...Jadeybug did great and carried her 'purse' around for candy. She is now steadily walking and getting faster!!! Ryan didnt dress up (too uncool), Luke was a rocker dude and Will was a Star Wars stormtrooper. Our neighborhood goes all out and it was alot of fun!!!!!

Sweet girl

Jade loves purses, bears and anything soft! She takes steps but only when SHE wants to. She is still quite wobbly but is getting the hang of it and will clap for herself.