Panama City Beach

Another day in paradise!
We took the girls to panama City Beach to ride the "old Miracle Strip Rides".
They had so much fun together... it was great to see them interacting as well as they did. Amilynn has come into her own now. She is able to really keep up with, and play with Annalee on a different level - it seems like she suddenly turned into a "big girl"! It is great!!!

I am going to try to blog atleast once a week and keep track of daily activities and fun... also, the little things, just everyday life - so we can look back at this later and remember their childhoods (while Glynn and I attend our own activities, at the assisted living facility, after our girls have their high school graduation!!!)

One Year Ago Today...

One year ago today... on the other side of the world, we watched our adorable little Amilynn (aka:An Kang)teeter down a long halllway to join her forever family! What a difference a year makes!!! We are so blessed to have you in our lives Amilynn, we love you!!!

You Belong

We have decided to start a new blog on youbelong.net/watts
We will still try to post a couple of updates here, but I think we will mainly focus on youbelong.net/watts - I have heard of several families having trouble posting to Blogger while in China... hence we thought we would have 2 options. If we can we will still update videos etc. here.

Our tickets are booked!

We are leaving on April 24, 2009 - our gotcha day is April 27, 2009 and we return home on May 7, 2009!

Here we come darling girl!

******TA******

!!!******TA******!!!

We leave in 20 DAYS!!!
Oh My Goodness!!!
We are so excited, I can't believe we are less then 3 weeks from departure!!!

Time is so NOT flying...

On March 5, 2009 I posted that time was flying by... OMG, I could not have been more WRONG!!!
Is it still only the 15th.
Hurry Up Father Time!

One week later...

Oh the wait is excruciating now!
It has only been one week since LOA, but is seems like a month. Now our daughter is so close, yet so far... I can't wait until we receive the news the we have TA and CA!
Our timeline has been:
January 28, 2009 - Referral
January 29, 2009 - LOI (letter of intent to adopt An Kang)
March 5, 2009 - LOA (letter of acceptance, our official documentation from China advising us that we are permitted to adopt An Kang!)we were advised that our timeline would be approximately 5-8 weeks for travel... an eternity!!!
Please hurry up TA and CA!