Travel Itenarary

Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west. Isaiah 43:5

June 29th - 6:58 am Leave for Chicago - 12:46pm Leave there for Beijing

June 30th - 3:00 pm arrive in Beijing (lose a day because of time change/flight). Staying at the Wangfujing Grand Hotel

July 1st - Tour Beijing - Great Wall, Forbidden City, etc

July 2nd - Fly to Guanzhou early then GOTCHA DAY in the afternoon ! (that means we get Madi). Staying at the White Swan Hotel.

July 3rd - Registration/Notarization

July 4th - Apply for Madi's Passport

July 5th - July 8th - Free days to bond and get to know Madi as a family

July 9th - Tour Six Banyan Temple

July 10th - Madi's physical examination then sightseeing at Shang Xia Jiu Pedestrian Street

July 11th - Visa Appointment then sightseeing at Family Chen's Temple

July 12th - Swearing in Ceremony

July 13th - Leave Guanzhou early for Hong Kong then at 12:45p Leave Hong Kong - 7:20p Land in Dallas (get our day back from time change)

Referral Information

"Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the LORD your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled, not one has failed." Joshua 23:14

Here she is ! .................

We are so happy to announce that we received our Referral.

We got the call on May 1 and recieved these precious pictures the next day on May 2.

Announcing Guang Hai Yu who will soon be Madison Klara Mei. She was born in Guangzhou on March 22, 2005. At her latest measurement she weighed 22 lbs. We are in love with her bright wide eyes and we think we can tell from the picture alone that after all of this time this is God's perfect child for us.

Here names meaning is very pretty and I want to share that with you.

Guang - is her last name and represents the town she is from

Hai - means ocean

Yu - means rain.

You would pronounce Hai Yu something like "Hi you"..we think it's precious and do plan on keeping this alive and in use.

We can tell from the notes in the referral that she did recieve a lot of love and care while she has been in care. There are notes about hugging her and looking into her eyes and that she will give you her lovely smile. What a blessing that God put arms there for her while we have not been able to be by her side.

I also want to share that we sent our first financial committment to our adoption on March 23, 2005 and that would have meant Jeff and I were having some serious conversations on March 22, 2005 about being 100% totally sure that this was God's plan for us...that we were being obedient. We both remember the prayer and conversations the night before. This searching of our hearts all occured on the exact day she was born. God is so good. His plan is perfect. He knew we needed to get on with it already because our daughter had been born. So long story short..the mail went out on the next day and here we are !