Travel Dates

Well...it's official. We got our travel itinerary e-mailed to us this afternoon which means we will finally be going to China!! We are so excited and though we don't have our complete itinerary we do have some dates that we can share with you. We will be leaving Cincinnati on October 25

CINCINNATI, OH (CVG) Departs: 11:10am
DETROIT METRO, MI (DTW) Arrives: 12:28pm

DETROIT METRO, MI (DTW) Departs: 2:10pm
Thu, Oct 25
TOKYO NARITA, JAPAN (NRT) Arrives: 4:25pm
Fri, Oct 26

TOKYO NARITA, JAPAN (NRT) Departs: 6:25pm
BEIJING, CHINA (PEK) Arrives: 9:25pm

Then on November 7th we leave China:

GUANGZHOU, CHINA (CAN) Departs: 8:30am
TOKYO NARITA, JAPAN (NRT) Arrives: 1:40pm

TOKYO NARITA, JAPAN (NRT) Departs: 2:35pm
DETROIT METRO, MI (DTW) Arrives: 12:10pm

DETROIT METRO, MI (DTW) Departs: 3:12pm
CINCINNATI, OH (CVG) Arrives: 4:30pm

We are so excited that we finally have tickets!!!! This is so cool and we are excited to share our joy with you! We hope to post an itinerary of where we will be while we are in China before we leave so you can be praying for us each step of the way. We will be blogging while in China too so please follow our journey! We will probably be sending out at least one mass e-mail before we leave but keep checking the blog as I am sure I will post several times before we leave!

Thanks for every one's support. We love you all!
Sorry no pics today:(

Our Visas Have Arrived

Our visas have arrived! We received them two days ago but I keep forgetting to post. We are excited as this is one of the last things we have to do. We have purchased all of our meds to take to China and have picked them up. I should take a picture but well...that requires reading more about how to do that on our new camera and I just haven't made the time yet. Fortunately Mackenzie will be taking our old camera so if all else fails I will be using it while we are in China! Most of the stuff that we will be taking is laying everywhere in Ellie's room. I will need to take a picture of it as it is a disaster area in there. Now we are just waiting on travel approval for the rest of the travel group that we will be going with...we have friends who received their travel approval they day after us that left today. So we are excited for them. Each agency is different on how they handle travel and our agency prefers that you travel with a group. Our agency is one of the very few that sends a doctor with each travel group that goes as a safety and reassurance for families. So I am glad that we are waiting but wish we could be over there now. Hopefully in the next two weeks we will hear something firm on travel dates. right now the anticipated dates are Oct 18-Oct 31. But those dates are tentative. I wanted to include a couple of pics of the girls. Several of Ainsley ready for preschool, some gymnastics pics, a picture of mackenzie on our counter reading and then one of the girls with grammie I and auntie Nancy! Enjoy!

We have TA!!

We received Travel approval on Tuesday but haven't made the time to post since then! We were hoping to travel sooner but trying to get it all together for when the next travel group leaves next week would be impossible for us and our agency. Our agency is aiming to have us travel with the next travel group, which will hopefully be leaving October 18th. We are so very excited and are looking forward to getting to China to pick up our little girl. Thank you all for all the prayers as we have felt them in the last few months! Please continue to pray that our time until then is not too stressful! We will keep you updated as things move along!
No pics today. Ainsley did start school and I will post some pics soon! She loves preschool though!