November 2004

over 4 meters high ceiling for a great room creates 3.5 floors, the half floor is designed for kitchen, den and dining area or bar above the garage.

Model home

December 2006 Shanghai

One corner of sub

Front view of our house (duplex each owner has left or right half), landscaping for outside of sub hasn't been completed yet

December 2007

This is a small subdivision locates 30 minutes driving distance from Shanghai metro. The back of our duplex .




One corner of sub

Nanjing Road




Nearby shopping mall

January 2008 Zhou Zhuang

We visited Zhou Zhuang, the Venice of China in Jan. 08. It was quiet, not so many tourists because of winter. Zhou Zhuang locates 47 miles west of Shanghai and is famous for its well known ancient towns, stone bridges, water ways and old residency houses.

It took us about 90 minutes from Shanghai to Zhou Zhuang by a tourism bus. We rode a boat for about 20 minutes on the water. The boatlady sang several folk songs for us.

3 minutes video - Zhou Zhuang

I will be a mother very soon - Mother's Day 2009

Another Spring

This spring we made some changes towards our exterior house. 2 juniper trees have grown crazily in the front of our house recent years. I have asked husband cut them down because they blocked the view of our house, but he found many reasons to keep them. Maybe it is a hard job for him.

Amazingly, one day when I walked outside and saw juniper trees were bended and damaged by last night's high wind. This time DH won't have any excuse and has to clear the mess. DH spent 2 days to cut branches to pieces by electrical saw so that we are able to load them into our truck and dump to the waste yard at nearby farm.

My house once again shows her nice looking after these 2 trees gone. In April, DH and I were discussing to replace our roof with high quality material. We have found several pieces of shingles fall down from the roof, though our house is only 14 years old.

We have our roof quoted and it is not cheap for a life time warranty and top quality material. I hesitate to spend so much money on it. DH would like to go for it, in addition to have exterior wood frame painted this year.

One day, DH hugged me as usual when he got home and whispered me, "Guess what?" "What? " I replied. "One company wants me do a proposal for them and guess what? The price they offered me is almost the same we paid for our roof." Wow, God must know my heart. Thank you, my Lord!

Show Time

We felt we were riding a roller coaster during the time we were paper chasing for our home study and dossier. We had ups and downs, tears and joys . We finally made through it after lots of prayers from our church pastors and friends.

In the past 10 months, I enjoyed very much shopping for my little girl. Let me show some of my girl's clothes.

We are told that our dossier has been logged in CCAA on Feb.16, 2009 before we start our cruise to Bahamas, before my birthday coming. What a gift I have for this year's birthday, my days will be more meaningful after this birthday. Thanks God!

DH didn't notice there is a little boy in the photo.

Where are you?

In my journey, I am not alone

My LORD will lift up my head

in HIM, I find peace

Dossier

We submitted our dossier on Jan. 3rd, 2009 to our placement agency, who will send it to China after review.

All documents must be less than 9 months old include following:

- Birth Certificates (Certificates of Naturalization)
- Employment Letters
- Marriage License
- Medical Examination Forms
- Certificate of Non-Criminal Record
- Adoption Application Letter
- Financial Statement
- Home Study
- I800A Approval
- Six Photos about Family Lives
- Three Copies of each applicant's passport
- Two Passport Photos of Each Applicant
- Certified Check $$$$