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Christmas Lights and Krispy Kreme

The Christmas balls at Summit Hills:"That time I walked out of the bathroom and everyone was taking a family picture without me. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals." - Anna

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Shelley Christmas 2K14

"Helping" Verity open her presents:The little Shelleys:Love these two:

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Wilson Christmas 2K14

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December 26

We have a day after Christmas tradition of going to Jordan and Ashley's house in Cary. We packed up Harvey's scooter and bike and took them with us this time and he really started to get the hang of...

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Our China Adoption Journey...the beginning

Well friends, it's been a while, 17 months to be exact, since we've documented our lives on the blog. We don't have time to catch up on everything that's happened since we last posted. Verity has a...

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Our Adoption Journey...The Early Steps

As I mentioned in the last post, we've been on this adoption journey for about a year now. After our application was accepted to Small World we got a 99 page booklet on how to adopt from China. Yes,...

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Matching Part 1

How does one get matched with a child in China?Well, it's complicated. So complicated that I don't even really understand everything even after having gone through the matching process.As you may know,...

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Matching Part 2 - Samuel

This is the fun part of the story.I left off in the post before last with our file flying across the ocean to Beijing to get logged in. We were officially logged in (LID) October 16, 2015. Typically...

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Adoption: the torturous part: waiting

Matching with Samuel has definitely been the highlight of this journey. We finally had a face and a story and a location to our child. So much clarity was gained in just minutes of reading through his...

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All the Feelings

First off the big news: We got our Travel Approval. We will meet Samuel June, 13, 2016. For you light readers out there that is the main point of this post and you can go ahead and close the tab. We're...

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Getting Ready!!!

I've got about 10 minutes to post a little update.We are seriously going to jump on a plane in about 36 hours to go to China. Last week after we got TA and booked our plane tickets everything just felt...

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Let’s Get it Started

We are off! Josh and I finished the last of the packing and cleaning last night about 10:15pm and headed to bed. We were both good and tired and thankfully not too wound up so we got off to sleep...

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China Day 1

We have had a glorious day in Beijing. Harvey was up at 4:30 this morning and when we finally agreed to join him at 5am he pulled out the paints and went to town. Nothing like arts and crafts to help...

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Beijing Day 2

We spent the morning at Zi Zhu Yuan park near our hotel in Beijing...it was basically the quintessential Chinese park which is one of my favorite things. It was bustling with older Chinese folks out...

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To Taiyuan

We are finally on our way to Taiyuan! We’ve gone from months to weeks to days to just hours before we meet Samuel. I can’t believe it’s here. I have continued to feel a great sense of calm and peace...

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Meeting Samuel

We had a nice long morning before heading to meet Samuel at 9am... it's hard to sleep late the day you're going to meet your new son but I am so thankful that all three of us slept well.We ate...

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More Day 1 and Day 2

After nap yesterday Samuel woke up sad but pretty quickly embraced the new toys and new brother he had to play with. He wet his pants during nap time and we had to change his clothes which was pretty...

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Taiyuan Social Welfare Institute (Orphanage)

Yesterday we got to take a tour of Samuel's orphanage. He came here when he was just about two days old. He didn't live here for very long before going to live with his foster family, but it was good...

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Taiyuan Update

We are soaking up all we can of Taiyuan. Oh how I wish I could bottle up this city and take it with me to America. I'd probably replace West Memphis, Arkansas with Taiyuan so that it could be just on...

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Good-bye Taiyuan, Hello GuangZhou

Samuel was up early this morning and Harvey and Josh were still asleep so I had a good chance to get some alone time playing with my new boy. We sat by the big window in the living area and watched for...

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Guangzhou

Just two more days separate us from a 3-flight transcontinental journey back home to Memphis with Samuel in tow. Although China has been amazing we are very very eager to get back to Verity and be...

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Home

We made it home at last late Thursday evening. Our travel went exceptionally well. Samuel was awake for the first few hours of the long flight but slept the last 9 hours straight and we woke him up at...

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5 Days In

Let's be honest. Jet lag is giving us a run for our money. Four out of five family members were awake before 5am today. It was not awesome. Guess who was still asleep at 5am? That's right, it was...

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Loving Home

We've been back together for two weeks now and Verity and Samuel both still cheer almost every time we return home from an outing...no matter how much fun we've had they are always happy to see our...

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One Month Home

This is probably not the best time to reflect on our one month home. Not because things aren't going well but because month two is going to look so different than month one. Josh goes back to work next...

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