RA arrived!!

Today I waited around all day to catch the Fed Ex guy delivering our RA. ALL day, I tell ya! Actually we would have been home all day anyway because I have a kid with the sw*@ne flu. Dern pig. Emily needed to be dropped off somewhere around 3. Guess what time our RA arrived? 3pm! Thats right!! So I missed the whole delivery but took pictures of it on my doorstep anyway. Its so fun to see our names with our son's name on the same piece of paper!

So what happens now is we mail our RA back to AWAA and also mail our I800 form to the govt. Our agency says anywhere from 4-8 weeks before we'll get our Travel Approval(TA) and then travel as soon as possible after. Praying its more along the 4 week time frame!! We can't wait to go and get our son!!! Thank you all for your supportive comments to us and for being so happy with us! We feel the love!!


Our precious RA on the porch next to my chicken/rain boots! Yes, we are country folk!!

A sweet folder that our RA was in!!

Here it is!!

Signing our RA. We say YES!!
(Don't mind our lump of a dog in the background...it was such a pretty day to day and he was loving it!)
Daddy saying YES!

Introducing.....

Rhett Han Miller Woods!!!! The cutest little boy in the Jiangsu province!!!! He currently resides in the Nanjing SWI but will be coming home soon! His birthday is 5/3/07. Just 2 days before we got his referral! We can't wait to put our arms around him!!!! Come on TA! Do you realize that if we go in December that's just 2ish months away? Aaaahhh!!!!!
I'm praising God for the way he did all of this! On Monday my sister in law and brother in law got a referral for a 4 year old girl and a 2 year old boy from Ethiopia! The Lord is amazing! 3 children are going to have a family now! Praise Him!!!

These are the first pictures we ever saw of our boy. His referral pictures...

Stylin' in his sweet vest!
And then here are some updated ones we got in July. Look at his sweet smile!!!!


We love you Rhett!!!

China said YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At 1:57 pm we got the call we have been waiting for!!! Melissa at our agency said that our RA arrived today!!!! 72 days after LID!!!! She expects us to travel early to late December (depending on when we get our TA) with a possibility of being home before Christmas!! But I'm just so trusting the Lord on this and excited that we can now share our son's pictures! Stay tuned for a "reveal" post!! But first I have calls to make!!!!!


Give me an "R"!


Give me an "A"!!!

What does that spell?

Its also the initials of our Rhett and Adiah!!

We got new pictures!!

Yesterday we got new pictures of Rhett from a sweet woman and her husband who are in China now picking up their son from the same orphanage that he is in!! I was so thrilled to get them and just started crying tears of joy when I saw his sweet face! I SO wish I could post them for you all to see! But we have to wait until we get our RA to do so. Sad!! As thrilled as we were to see pictures of our sweet boy taken just hours ago it did confirm to us that we MUST be in prayer for our boy in very specific ways. We must pray that his little body will receive nutrition and begin to GROW! He is very, very small. And his body needs good food and nutrients so he can start to flourish. I'm praying that everything that goes in his mouth would DOUBLE as far as nutrition goes. We must also be praying for his brain development. That's all I can really say about that but know that he needs those prayers! And also pray that we can get him home soon so that we can get him the help that he needs! And some lovin' from his family!!! Would you pray these things with us? It is obvious that our boy is loved so much. He is well cared for and this orphanage is doing the very best they can. But the fact is this...he needs to come home! Our agency fully expects that it will take 5-6 months before we get our RA. I'm praying for sooner. I just am! We're already 1 month and 1 week into the wait. But after seeing these pictures I'm even more convinced that we need to get him home. I'm praying for the unheard of!!

God loves him more than we do and is taking care of all of the details. Isn't that awesome?!?!

Psalm 146

Praise the Lord!
Let all that I am praise the Lord. I will praise the Lord as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath.
Don’t put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there. When they breathe their last, they return to the earth, and all their plans die with them. But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper, whose hope is in the Lord their God. He made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He keeps every promise forever. He gives justice to the oppressed and food to the hungry. The Lord frees the prisoners. The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are weighed down. The Lord loves the godly. The Lord protects the foreigners among us. He cares for the orphans and widows, but he frustrates the plans of the wicked.
The Lord will reign forever. He will be your God, O Jerusalem, throughout the generations.
Praise the Lord!

Log In Date!!!

We just got word that our dossier was logged in on 7/20/09! So the CRAZY wait begins for our RA and TA. I've seen lots swirling around out there about the uncertainty of when these things arrive. But I'm refusing to allow that stuff to alter my hope and peace in the One who started us on this road. He already knows when and how this will work out. So I rest in that!! Our agency says 3-5 months average from LID to RA. So I won't even look for it until Oct. But I sure won't be upset if we got an early surprise!! So let the count up begin!!

I can't wait to go get our baby boy!!!

Update!

Last week I contacted Ladybugs N Love which is a company who sends care packages, makes orphanage phone calls, etc for us waiting parents. Since I can't send a care package yet because we have not received official approval from China(that would be our RA-Referral approval)I decided to see if they would make an orphanage phone call for me. I was able to ask 10 questions and they would also ask for updated measurements and pictures. Of course, there is no guarantee that they could get anything for us. But they would try. Last night we recieved the most AMAZING email from them!! They got answers to all 10 of our questions, updated measurements, and 3 updated pictures!!! I ran outside to get Brian so we could open the email together but he was in the middle of something so it was another hour before he came in. I SO wish I could show his picture now. He looks absolutely amazing!!! Happy, healthy(underweight but healthy as can be it seems), and loved. And the most exciting part is that I found out that he is in the Half the Sky program at his orphanage!! What a blessing!! It was well worth the $40 it cost to do that!! I'm just praying that our RA comes quickly so we can go and get him!! These updates are good but makes it so hard too! Just trusting the Lord on his perfect timing!!!

DTC!!

Just wanted to do a post on this special day! You all already know that we are DTC today but I couldn't let the day go by without acknowledging it again!! I'm sure it won't get there until Monday morning but its on its way! Yaa hoo!!