Flashback - 3 years ago today

In a sweltering hot room in Nanchang, China we held our daughter for the first time 3 years ago today. We are amazed at how fast the time has flown by and can't believe our baby girl will be 4 in just a few short months! We are blessed at how she has blossomed so much and how excited she is at the prospect of becoming a big sister. Her brother is now part of daily conversation and nightly prayers. Here is a photo of her from this past weekend:

Major Remodel

As we didn't have enough to do adopting a son, we are also in the process of remodeling our basement (mainly to add another bath & bedroom to our 2 bedroom house). Last weekend was spent removing the contents & gutting the whole works back to the cement walls. It was quite an undertaking but we pulled it off thanks to a little help from our friends.


This is the result after the gutting:

After a few days of various contractors on the job, we now have an egress window, plumbing, and framing started. It's just amazing how fast the space is being transformed.

Moving right along in our process

As of 10/1/10 we have moved to the 4th of 5 steps before we can book our tickets to travel for our son. The next 2 steps are obtaining the Article 5 from the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China and getting our Travel Approval from the CCAA in Beijing. We are hoping by late October/early November to have our travel approval & to be able to start planning our trip. We are projecting travel after Thanksgiving.

This is from 8/31/10, this is us at our adoption agency signing the paperwok on the day we got our Letter Of Approval:

3 Years ago today

We saw this cute little face for the first time:

Here she is 3 years later:

It's a Boy-Introducing our Son

We would like to take this opportunity to introduce our son:

Ezekiel Meng Yang Hinton

He is two years old (DOB- 08/25/08) , waiting for us in Hubei Province, China. We received our letter of approval today & are very excited (especially since this is Matt's 40th Birthday!) We are hoping to travel by the end of the year to get him.

Thankful Thursday

Thankful today to be counted among the living & to be employed. Glad to have a roof over my head, clothes on my back & food on the table!


Thankful also for family, here is Maddy with Grandma Linda-

First Visit to the Dentist

Maddy had her first dental visit last week. She did really well & had no cavities. It really helped to have the Usborne Book on first trip to the dentist to prep her & walk her thru walk was going to happen.

Ready for my exam

AWWWW

Scored a bag of goodies