Cheer Camp

As most of you know I attended cheer camp this week at Wake forest University. We had a blast between silly sting fights and flour fights woo messy. Today was awards for teams Piedmont Varsity Won Home Pom which is the dance we brought from home and competed with the first night. We also won the Extreme routine Dance award which is a dance UCA teaches us and we add on 8 counts to and Finally Varsity won the Leadership award. Our JV did amazing too they won everything we did minus the leadership award and they won 1st place for the cheer which we did not win but all of us had an amazing time looking forward to our season to start. Lily was too cute today while we were cheering and dancing she was cheering right along with us. Will post pictures when i get some didn't take my camera. no word about adoption process with the Prince.

Relaxing in Sissy's bed!

Lily enjoyed relaxing in my bed today and pretending to text someone on my phone. She never ceases to make me laugh each and everyday. pictures from my chinese camp will be posted soon i promise i have so many it hard to pick which ones to put on here. Please be in pray as me and Madison travel to Wake Forest for cheerleading camp tomorrow and no one gets injured this year. Be back Monday

Fingerprints are finished.

We received our fingerprinting appointment in the mail this week for August 12th. We will be out of town and cannot be there.so yesterday my parents and I were in Charlotte today and thought we would go by the Application Center and just ask if they would do it today. Well, they did! They were very accommodating to us. This is a big relief to have this part of the process complete. We are on step closer to my little brother. YAY!

The Waiting child

This is a wonderful video made by Love Without Boundries about the waiting children of China. Please have a look. Make sure to turn off my music at the bottom.

Tiger and number song

I have a youtube video from camp we are singing the Tiger and number song in chinese check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmq6Fcd6FAY

Purse snd Shoes

I haven't been around this week to take pictures so I am guessing that Lily was digging in Madison's purse, Madison caught her she acted like she hadn't done anything wrong, but Madison took the purse, she cried then decided the shoes were better anywhy who needs a purse when you have a nice pair of shoes.

Hmm... What is in here

Oh no I've been caught act cute

NO! Don't take it from me

Oh well i guess these shoes are ok

Adopting Again

Yes, you have read correctly. Most of you know that my family is adopting from China again so this announcement is not a shock. Our agency is one of three that the CCAA gives a waiting list of hand picked children to find homes. These children are not on any other shared list. My brother, yes it is a boy, is a healthy 7 year old beautiful boy. His is in foster care and his orphanage just recently started participating in International adoption, so this is why he is older. Our agency has sent us pictures as well as a DVD of him. Obviously we all are in love. We have received our home study and our I-800A will be at the Fedex office to be delivered to the USCIS office this week. Our case manager predicts that we will travel sometime between December 2009 to March 2010, depending on how fast our paper work is processed. Please keep us in your prayers as we travel down this road. We can't wait to have our little guy home with us!

Here is some of what I learned today at my Mandarin Class. Click on the picture to make it bigger to read.

Mandarin Class

I started Mandarin class at Queens University in Charlotte today. It was very interesting, it is quite over whelming at first but really sort of easy once you start to learn characters and how to say some words. We learned so much today. It is not as hard as it looks to draw the Chinese characters. My teacher taught us to break it down stroke by stroke and it is very simple. I have learned so much in one day I will post some pictures of my notes later for you guys to see what I am learning. We have a field trip next Friday to ride in the Dragon Boat at Lake Norman. Hope everyone has had a wonderful Monday

4th of July weekend

This weekend we to Georgia on Friday to visit some of our friends in the Llama community. Ken and Kathy have a July 4th BBQ every year for their close friends and family. This year was special because it was Lily's first, and of course she was the center of attention that everyone had to hug and kiss. But Lily was interested in kissing one thing, the head of a bald eagle on the Colonel Richard's cane. Lily called it a "chicken", so everyone else started calling it "the chicken".

One Step Closer

We recieved our homestudy today and will be mailing the I-800A to the USCIS office tomorrow to get their on Monday morning. We are one step closer to bring the Prince home YAY!

Leaving tomorrow.

Today has just been a stay at home day. Lily hasn't felt very well today and has not had a great nap. Please pray for our family as we travel to Georgia tomorow to visit friends for the Fourth of July. Sorry no pictures today. HOPE EVERYONE HAS A WONDERFUL 4th OF JULY ON SATURDAY!

Sand and Pool #2

Today I had Hannah over who is a good friend of mine. Her and Lily played in the sand together while I took some pictures. Lily enjoyed the cool dip in the pool after playing in the sand. Enjoy the photos from today.