Today we celebrate our ninth year of marriage. As I reflect back on the last nine years, we are now at our third address, have 2 beautiful daughters

Today we celebrate our ninth year of marriage. As I reflect back on the last nine years, we are now at our third address, been blessed with 2 beautiful daughters and are still madly in love. Sometimes it seems like we have been married for much longer, but at times it seems like we were just planning our wedding. For those of you who didn't know us before we were married we held our ceremony on a rainy May morning at Blue Mountain Baptist Church in Coquitlam followed by a luncheon at the Pitt Meadows Golf Club. We had 3 groomsmen & 3 brides maids and two flower girls. The color theme was periwinkle and all us girls carried white roses. We had a gift opening the next day and on Monday May 3, we left for our Honeymoon at Walt Disney World in Orlando. We spent 10 days at the All Star Music resort in the hotel with the huge Cowboy Boot next to it. Drew was a good sport, even letting me give out cowboy hat shaped party favors at the reception. He had married a country girl at heart!

We are number 12!

Well it is official...one of the families from our agency accepted a referral for a 4 year old boy from Taiwan...so that means we move up the list to number 12!

Spring Break 2008

We spent Spring Break down in Squamish and Vancouver. While we were there we had a family movie night and went to see the new Hannah Montana 3D movie. Yes...Daddy saw it too! It was actually quite well done. Drew and I were pleasantly surprised.

My first digital scrapbook page!

Well...not bad for a first attempt. It was actually quite fun. I used the program Foto Fusion and gave it a whirl. These photos were taken last weekend at Madi's ballet recital. She was a grape princess. They were so cute!

Month 9

Yikes! Are those labor pains I feel? Nope...false alarm. It has been 9 months since we have been logged in with China. In any typical pregnancy this should mark the end of our waiting period, but with this atypical pregnancy, I think I am still in my 1st trimester! I wonder how elephants do it? There is a rumor that referrals are "in the air" but no cut off date has been announced yet. Rumor has it that they have only matched through January 9th, 2006. If this is true then this is the smallest batch in recent history, only 5 days! And I think 2 of those fell on a weekend! As for an update on our application with Taiwan, we are still number 13. No one from Sunrise has received a referral from Chung Yi that we know of. Maybe we will have better news next month!

April 2, 2008