Update on my sweet girl!!!

We'll this is going to be a fabulous day!!!!Woke up this morning to an update about my girl!!! Thank you to my very special friend Tammy!!!! She got to observe my girl in class today!She said my girl is so beautiful the pictures i have don't show the way her beautiful eyes light up when she smiles!! She said she kept looking up smiling at her.But she was busy doing her school work! When the teacher came out in the hall and talked with them a bit and she said that the class and everyone knew that Aubrey had a new family!! See now everytime she see's my friend she'll know mama sent her to checkup on my girl! I wanted to know her favorite color?So the teacher ask her and guess what??She's her mother's daughter PINK!! I'm so excited my body still feels like it is shaking!!She was right their with my sweet girl!!  Guess mom needs to buy lot's of pink!! Hoping to  get Dossier to agency this week and sent to China for LID!! Gotta get this ball rolling I have a special package waiting on me!!! Love and blessings everyone!!

WOOHOOO I800A APPROVED!!

Wow ,what a day!God knows just what I need .Didn't have such a wonderful day.I called USCIS and they told me that they hadn't received the additional info they needed yet.We'll when I gave them tracking confirmation showing someone their had signed for my documents,then they proceeded to tell me they had five days to have it delivered to them from the mail room.Your kidding right??? But I surprisngly controlled my temper when I could feel my blood starting to boil.But I thought kill them with kindness.So I proceeded to tell them I was sorry for bothering them and I know they must get thousands of calls a day BUT. Then I started to tell them about my sweet girl and how she really needs her family!! Got an email from the same case worker I couldn't even get a call back from saying she had everything done and I was APPROVED!!! WOOOOHOOOO!! She even had smiley faces and APPROVED in capital letters!!! Tell me GOD is not so incredibly AWESOME!! One step closer my sweet sweet girl!! Keep my family in your prayers please!!

Our girl in action!!!

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These are pics of my princess holding her family photo book!!And wearing some things we sent her.Even though some are not matched correctly she's still beautiful!!

I belong!!!

We'll this morning after getting the kids up and while they were eating breakfast the next thing I do of course is check for an update on my girl!!! And guess what??? No words could describe the mess I was when I opened this email!!! Funny what feeling like you belong and someone giving you hope will do!!! Love and Blessings to all!!!This makes it worth all the work and stress right here!!!

WOW MY GOD IS SO AWESOME!!!

Today was a very productive day!We Got our fingerprints done today!I know WOOOHOOO!!But the best news ever!!! Are you ready??? I recently joined a blog for people with children from Shenzen Guangdong hoping to learn more about where my daughter is from and really hoping to see a glimpse of her in others pictures who had already traveled to get their sweet children! Little did I know what a wonderful oportunity God had lead me to!! Are you ready for this??? I'm now friends with an american lady who lives in Shenzen City and works at my daughters orphange!!!!!! Now for the best part!!! She knows my precious girl and has for YEARS!!!! I'm so excited I can't hardly contain myself!!! God is so wonderful!!I can't wait to talk with this lady and learn as much about my sweet girl as possible. I'm praying that maybe she'll work on some english with my baby girl!!! I can't wait to see some pics of her when she was smaller and learn about her personality!Her likes and dislikes,everything!!! I have so much to catch up on.Can't believe she can see my precious little blessing each and everyday!! Will post more as I findout more!!Feeling so incredibly BLESSED!!!!Checkout my facebook page theirs a picture of my girl when she was younger.This is my new friends daughter holding her!!Just priceless!!!!

Finger printing!!!! and how our sweet girl got her name!!

We'll moving right along to the next step in our adoption!!! USCIS fingerprinting!! Funny how much faster this part moves with the senator's office involved. We have been working really hard on getting everything completed so when we get this approval all Dossier papers will be ready to move. I think about my sweet girl night and day!! Can't wait to give her all the LOVE she's missed out on all these years. I have also started to babysit to help pay adoption fees also.So needless to say we're staying pretty busy.But I guess busy is good for my mind right now. Can't wait to start on her room!1But have to wait till I get a break in some of these FEES. Just send lot's of prayers up for my family and my sweet daughter Aubrey!! So while were on Aubrey I must tell you why we named her Aubrey!! My DADDY!! I lost my sweet dad about a year and a half ago.My dad was a different kinda guy.When he was younger and in good health he was the sharpest dressed man around.Always perfect,not a hair out of place suit on even to go grocery shopping!And shoes were always so shiny not a smudge in sight. He was also a very good cook but would never tell any of his secrets!! My dad was a kind man and he really loved his family!He had such a hard time expressing himself though.But you just knew!My dad done a little bit of everything,including flying planes! Which I would never go up with him NO WAY to scared!! He would just laugh!! But then when my dad was diagnoised with a brain tumor and had surgery to save his life he was never really the same.But we still loved him.Alot changed for my dad over the years and it was almost like he kinda gave up.He didn't feel proud of himself anymore.I sure wish I'd told him I was still proud of him.To make a very long story short dad didn't think he was special anymore.But he was!! He would be so excited if he knew our sweet girl was named after her late grandfather. Dad was funny the way he talked,never meant anything bad by the way he talked he was just very blunt!! He would say Lisa I can't believe I'm grandpa to Chinese!Now that would offend some people but not me. Not coming from dad.He was so proud he told everyone he knew! He would just go on and on about how smart they were or how he loved their black hair. Or how Noah could walk right under his kitchen table and not even bump his head. My dads name was Aubrey! Funny how this was a popular name for men in the 60's and now a popular name for girls!! So we thought it would be perfect for such a special little lady to be named after her very special grandfather Aubrey Lee Pitcock.I know my dad is looking down with a big smile on that sweet little face of his.Funny thing is when I stare at pictures of Aubrey, I think she kinda looks like my dad when he was a young child.So here's to you DAD!!

Aubrey's Birthday!!!

This morning as I get up I can't help thinking about my sweet fragile girl a world away is celebrating her birthday!!!! Without her family once again. I hope she got the package we sent so she has some encouragement and hope.I couldn't imagine year after year having friends come and go and always wondering if your turn would ever come,Before it's to late.So I ask all of you to say a sweet special little prayer for my sweetie today.That God would protect and comfort her and let her know next birthday will be much different.A couple days ago I found a support group for Aubrey's province!I was so excited!! And while staying up all night going thru everyones pictures trying to get a glimpse of my girl,Yep I sure did!!Only a mother would just know right.I found a couple picture but the first was the top of her head and then you could see her very fragile little arm.Call me crazy but I just knew it was her!! So as I kept searching sure enough their was another from the back of course But I'll take what I can get.Her sweet little fragile body, that black thick hair.she had the same pants that she had on in referral picture and a little lavendar shirt and I could see her little legs and feet.Her little feet have scars from surgery on the back of them with the same little shoes as in her previous pictures.Sobbing like a crazy lady I was so happy just to get a glimpse of my sweet sweet birthday girl!!Sure wish I could have seen her little face to see her expression but maybe next time. I'm so thankful for this support group because I couldn't find pictures of her orphange anywhere.Not even on the adoption sites that usually show all of them. BUt their was a lady who just visited and took lot's of pictures.So i got to look into Aubrey's little world a bit. I love you sweet girl!!!Happy Birthday mother wishes you were here with us today!!!

Where did Summer go???

We'll yesterday was Mia's and Blake's orientation at school!!I must say I wasn't excited!!! I'm sad Summer is coming to an end!!I love my whole family being home most of the time.Even though their have been moments where they didn't like each other very much,I still enjoy our family time.Hard to believe little Mia will be starting kindergarden this year and Blake will be graduating!!Boy this just doesn't seem real!!! Then my sweet Madison will have her orientation tonight!She will be a big 5th grader!!Where do the years go??She will be in middle school next year!! Can we just stop the clock PLEASE!!My babies are growing up!!! As we were touring the schools I couldn't help to think about my other sweet angel waiting for us in China, and how excited she would probaly be to get to go to school with her siblings. My girls birthday is Aug the 6th she will be NINE years old!! Wish she could be home for her special day! But we sent her a small box with somethings we think she will enjoy including a photo of her family along with a translated letter from mom and dad and of course her big sister Madison!! We told her sometimes adoption can take what seems to be forever but when she's feeling lonely to look at her photo book and know she's very loved and mom and her family are working very hard to bring her home ASAP!! Have you ever considered ADOPTION??If so PLEASE don't let you fears keep you from doing this WONDERFUL life changing thing!! God will bless you in ways you couldn't even imagine!! My life would have never been the same without all my very special children.They have all BLESSED me in so many ways !and all in their own special ways!! All the money in the world couldn't compare to the blessings they add to my life!! My sweet Blake's birthday will be in just a couple days also Aug the 11th he will be 18 yrs old!!! My first precious little black headed angel will be a man!!BOY how the years have flown by.Son you have made me an extremely proud mother!!You have such a smart and level headed man!!Not a follower.I'm so PROUD of you!!You will make a wonderful Pediatrician someday!!Yes I said Pediatrician!!He has set big goals for himself!!Nothing less than the best for such a wonderful young man!! Love Mom