Okay–So I know we have been kind of leaving pretty quick messages, but we have very busy.  When we haven’t been transitioning, we’ve been at appointments. BUT today we were able to have a pretty easy day. We began our day at church on Shamian Island.  Yes–Finally a chance to worship!! The service we attended… Read More

Ok–a quick post to let you know we arrived in Guangzhou.  Our flight was delayed and we are wiped out.  Functioning on little sleep. Everyone is a little grumpy.  Yuck! We are about to walk out the door for the medical appointment–if you are up–please pray for mercy on shots for Songyan. Pray for us… Read More

Woo hoo!  We just received SongYan’s passport today so we are completely official at this point.  We leave in 2 1/2 hours to head to the airport for Guangzhou to work on the American side (visas).  Please pray for SongYan especially in Guangzhou — We have the medical appointments on Saturday in Guangzhou and we… Read More

You know when you were a little child and every story ends in happily ever after? Well that is not reality.  Reality is what happens AFTER the happy event. I don’t want to come off upset, or unhappy–I’m NOT any of those things. I am new mom who is living in this new reality that… Read More

Make sure you make it to the end of this blog.  I’m including 3 funny stories from the past 24 hours.But First . . .We began the day going to the West Lake Park.  Here are a few pics from this part of our tour: Our hotel for the week Next, we went to an… Read More

We are the official proud parents of Miss Sara SongYan Agee.  We traveled to the Foreign Affairs Adoption  office and signed many papers and had to stamp our signature with a thumbprint.  SongYan also had to sign and stamp her signature with a thumbprint saying that she wanted to be adopted by us.  We then… Read More

Psalm 92:1-5“A psalm. A song to be sung on the Sabbath Day. It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to the Most High. It is good to proclaim your unfailing love in the morning, your faithfulness in the evening,  accompanied by the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.… Read More

Hannah’s first plane ride was a little challenging.  How do you communicate you must stay buckled and you may not go to the potty because the plane just took off and the stay buckled sign is on?  (Note: we had just gone to the bathroom before we got on the plane) LOL! I can not imagine… Read More

Thankfully the illnesses from yesterday morning were short-lived.  Neither Julie nor Hannah had any further bouts of their respective problems. Today was our last full day in Changsha.  Early tomorrow morning we will get on an airplane for a 1 hour and 20 minute flight to Fuzhou where we will have a relaxing afternoon and… Read More