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We're on our way, Nara Josette!

Winter: Ready, Set, Take Off!

Burrr.... It is Cold. We have been braving the cold weather, icy roads, snow, and getting ready for our upcoming journey to China, as well as getting pumped up for the BCS National Championship Game tonight  - AUBURN VS. Oregon - in Arizona. WAR EAGLE!

We have been busy with school back in session as well as preparing and organizing everything for our trip to bring home our daughter, Nara Josette. It's been a very long journey as many of you know. We have been tremendously blessed by so much prayer, encouragement from our parents, families, and friends over the past several years. From the time we began to share our hearts for adoption while we were in Nashville until today, God has been with us all the way.  From our Life groups of friends to our church families, we could not ask for more genuine and spirit led people to walk along side and sometimes be held up by... 

We are thankful be finally be on the cusp of being united with our daughter. She has been in our hearts for so long. We are more than blessed by our three adventurous, spirited sons and are overflowing with excitement and a deep sense of peace - finally - as the big "G"day approaches. The boys are full of anticipation for their Sister. They have heard about her for soooo long, they won't believe that she is here (like us) until she is in our home sipping Capri Sun and munching on Goldfish.

Please continue to pray as we travel this week. Our the next couple of weeks, we'll be traveling a little more than over 20,000 miles! Please pray for safety, our hearts to be open and woven together as one as our family unites with one another for the first time and in the coming transition weeks, as well as for Nara Josette's health and upcoming surgery. Please pray for Rob, Papa, Nana and the boys as they will be holding down the homestead, while Dad and I trek to China. Thank you, we truly appreciate your prayers. The enemy has been full force the past week or so, trying to tear us down in health and spirit. His persistence only strengthens our belief in God's grace upon our family and our purpose in God's family for our adoption into His family and our adoption of Nara Josette into our family. James 1:27

Stay warm, we look forward to seeing you all again soon and welcome your notes and emails along the way. 

Much Love~

Ginny & Gang

WAR EAGLE

Birthday Girl!

We sent her a Bday cake from Ladybugsnlove.com

Grace's gingerbread girl

Whit's gingerbread man

Ford's gingerbread man

snow on the mountain

the gang

Save the Date-Chinese New Year Festival

2011 Chinese New Year  Festival  Feb 19th, 2011, 11am - 4:00pm  Boutwell Auditorium - Birmingham, AL Chinese game / Chinese food / Chinese dance / Chinese Music / Acrobat / KongFu / Chinese Traditional stuff

Walk thru Bethlehem

It's hard to believe that another year has passed by and it's time to celebrate Christmas. I know it's been a very busy year for us all, many of us have had big transitions. We're hoping and praying you are taking the time to stop and enjoy the spirit of Christmas and remember it's about celebrating the hope and life that Jesus has given to us all through His blood being shed. 

We pray that we will have truly know Jesus' peace in our hearts and live it out loud!

We were able to make our annual trip to Walk Thru Bethlehem. It is the most authentic experience around for a Christmas nativity to take you back in time and experience Bethlehem when Jesus was born so long ago. Our family loves the extensive outreach effort that this church makes every December to share the experience with thousands of people in Nashville.  As you enter into the city you are greeted by census workers and along your journey you will experience making manna, cloth dolls, wooden bracelets, polishing brass, feeding doves, watching a manager being built, shopping at market, grinding grape, making clay candles and twine; while you observe the soldiers searching the city for baby Jesus. As you leave the city you are invited to see baby Jesus and the wise men, as well as give a sacrifice such as your cloth doll for baby Jesus. Then you can visit with the animals in the stables, including a camel.Oh, and it's all for Free... what a gift in today's world.

Wishing you all a Very Merry CHRISTmas!

Love ~

Ginny & Family

Please plan a road trip next year, you won't regret it.

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Celebrating in our Hearts

Our sweet daughter turned two years old yesterday. It was a busy day here, but we took time to talk about Yun Lin (a.k.a. Nara Josette) and to pray for her. Yun Lin was born December 5, 2008. She arrived at her orphanage when she was one day old, in Maoming District, Guangdong, China a little more than 7,000 miles away from her home. We pray for her birth mother's heart, a peace and wholeness to know that God's hand is upon the precious baby she bore. We feel truly blessed and honored that God is allowing us to be united with Nara Josette very soon, to join the family that God has created through covenants of marriage, birth, and adoption. We're looking forward to celebrating her birthday with her once she is home. We had hoped that she'd be here with us by now, but we believe that this journey continues to be on God's timeline - not our own.

We were able to send her package and cake to celebrate her birthday with her friends and caregivers through LadybugsnLove.com. We highly recommend their services, they are wonderful women helping adoptive families connect and ministering along the way. We have had great success using them for the past two years.

The boys are getting more excited about Nara Josette each day. Graham and Whit talk about her a lot and frequently tell their friends and teachers about her, as well as see things they think she would like us to buy for her. It's really sweet and brotherly. (Graham even draws pictures for her and writes notes to her) Ford is excited too, but he's low key with anticipation. I think because he's older and he's been waiting for her to arrive practically all his short life and oh yeah, since we traveled to China in May and came home without her. He's a bit hesitant until she actually shows up at our house. I can't blame him. Rob and I have been kind of with him the past 6 months. 'We'll believe she is coming once we actually see her at our house mindset'. It's been getting a little more real the past couple of weeks, but much more distant than in the past. I feel like I've starting nesting a little the past couple of weeks. As the date gets closer, I feel like just before I've gone to the hospital - Ah! So much to do. Organize, Paint, Pack, Wrap, ...... and it happens to also be, Christmas season! :-0  

Thank you for your continued prayers for our family. We ask for our hearts to continue to daily invite Jesus into our hearts and actions, for all of our hearts to be open to one another as we prepare to bond as a family and her Nara Josette's walls to be torn down to bond with us - trust and love. We also pray that her surgery will go well (we expect to have it in the spring), the surgeons expertise, and her healing. Also, for energy from the Father, once we return home to overcome jet lag! This really hit me hard last time, so I truly covet your prayers in this area, since there will 6 of us to care for and school, too.  We are humbled by your love and friendship - we thank God for you and appreciate your prayers for our family.

Scripture that has been in my heart playing over and over in my heart lately,

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV

The LORD your God is in your midst,
a mighty one who will save;
he will rejoice over you with gladness;
he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.

Love~
Ginny

WAR EAGLE, HEY!!!

Wow, it's been a busy couple of weeks, but we thankfully enjoyed a few blessed days full of food, fun, thanksgiving and loud cheering!

A great quote - it's how you start the game, but how you end the game. It's a lot like Life and Eternity...

WAR EAGLE!!

Love ~
Ginny

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