Last Call

I've set out to start a blog as I've started to learn that along this journey, I seem to get so busy that my head clouds up and I can't seem to get everything out. So about 5 months ago Amanda told me I should start one and I used every excuse not to, but I wanted to share it with my closest friends and a way to get some of my thoughts out onto a platform.
So if you are a part of this blog party, then you can decide to read or not to read. Do what you wish...

Ken and I have 4 days until we depart for China and as we are driving in the car today to do random errands again to pick up random items ....again... Ken looked at me and said could it really be that in 4 days we travel to become parents.... my heart leapt and then flipped and then I felt faint and then I thought I was about to throw up. And as I started to get tears in my eyes, I remembered that for the past 4 years we have been on our journey to become parents, maybe even farther back than that. But the difference is, in a lot of ways, I never thought it would really happen. Just as I thought I'd never get married, just as I thought I'd never have my own horse... Just as I thought that surely God didn't have this big of a plan for me.
And so I'm humbled that He has entrusted baby Jake to us, across the world, a large ocean..2 continents and that God is truly the creator of the world , not ohio, or the US.

I am also posting our itinerary so that if you want to pray, think, laugh at the thought of us all over there, you can!

8/14/08 Delta # 1234 Cincinnati to LAX arrive 2:50 pm Courtyard by Marriott. 310-649-1400.

8/15/08 Delta # 7831 [China Southern #328] LAX to Guangzhou China. Leave 11:50 pm. Arrive

8/17/08 & take China Southern # 3157 to Zhengzhou China. Arrive 4:20 pm [12 hours earlier than EST].

Staying at Sofitel Hotel in Zhengzhou. 011-86-37165950088. Guide is Yisha. 011-86-13966671625.

8/18/2008. GET JACOB!

8/23/08 China Southern #3971 to Guangzhou. Staying at White Swan Hotel. 011-86-2081886968 .

Guide is Raymond. 011-86-13112207469.

8/29/08 China Southern #327 [Delta #7830] Guangzhou to LAX. Arrive 6:50 pm. Staying at Courtyard by Marriott. 310-649-1400.

8/30/08 Delta #1230 LAX to Cincinnati arrive 6:40 pm.

Adoption agency is CCAI [ Chinese Children Adoption International]. Office # in Colorado is 303-850-9998. Emergencies outside business hours 303-350-0433.