WHERE ARE YOU JADEN?

LANCIE HAS A NEW FAVORITE PLACE. JADEN'S ROOM. I LIKE TO THINK THAT SHE IS JUST LONGING FOR JADEN AND THAT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ALL THE STUFFED DISNEY ANIMALS ON THE SHELVES? SHE IS DOING A GOOD JOB OF "WATCHING OVER" JADEN'S ROOM. SHE IS BEING VERY PATIENT, UNLIKE HER MOM! :-)

100 good wishes quilt

OK I HAVE BEEN SO BUSY GETTING OUT MY QUILT SQUARES AND WISHES FOR MY JANUARY AND MARCH BTC GROUPS. I FINALLY GOT OUT THE LAST GROUP THIS WEEKEND. I SENT ALMOST 80 WISHES! I AM STILL WAITING FOR QUITE A FEW MYSELF. HINT, HINT, HINT!

LANCIE'S BEEN DOWN TO MISSISSIPPI AND UP TO NO GOOD!

FOR EASTER WE WENT TO MISSISSIPPI. OF COURSE WE TOOK KALEIGH, GABBIE, AND LANCIE. LANCIE LOVES MS. AND THIS TIME IT WAS A SPECIAL TREAT BECAUSE SHE GOT TO PLAY WITH HER DOGGIE "COUSINS" BOO, CINDA, AND HER NEWEST COUSIN VAL. CAN YOU TELL FROM THE PICTURES THAT SHE HAD A GOOD TIME? SHE SLEPT FOR TWO DAYS WHEN WE GOT HOME. SHE LOVES SEEING HER NANA AND PAPAW AND THEY LOVE SEEING HER! WHILE IN MS LANCIE DECIDED TO PLAY WITH THE GARBAGE CANS, SOMEHOW OR ANOTHER SHE GOT HER HEAD STUCK THROUGH THE LID. THANK GOODNESS HER NANA SAW HER AND SAVED HER LIFE. WE ALL KNOW THAT LANCIE WAS INNOCENT IN THE WHOLE GARBAGE CAN INCIDENT, IT WAS REALLY VAL THAT STUCK THE LID OVER LANCIE'S HEAD! :-)

I KNOW I AM A LITTLE LATE POSTING BUT I HAVE BEEN HAVING COMPUTER PROBLEMS.

APRIL SECRET PAL!

MY SECRET PAL IS THE BEST. THIS MONTHS THEME IS APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS. SHE SENT ME THE CUTEST SHIRT AND LADYBUG ROBE FOR JADEN. WHEN I WAS IN MISSISSIPPI I ALMOST BOUGHT THE ROBE BUT DECIDED AGAINST IT. WHEN WE GOT HOME I DECIDED I WAS GOING TO GO TO THE NASHVILLE BABIES R US AND BUY IT. WELL I CHECKED THE MAIL AND THERE WAS MY PACKAGE FROM MY SP AND I WAS SO EXCITED TO SEE THE EXACT ROBE I WAS GOING TO BUY. I CANT WAIT TO SEE JADEN IN THIS!

REFERRALS!

WELL THE STORK IS ON ITS WAY FROM CHINA. AND THERE WILL BE MORE THEN 1 DAYS WORTH OF DOSSIERS INCLUDED. THESE REFERRALS WILL COVER 5/31/2005-6/6/2005! STILL NOT A WHOLE MONTH BUT MUCH BETTER THEN 1 DAY. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THOSE WHO WILL BE SEEING THEIR BABIES FACES SOON! NOTHING MUCH HERE ON THE ADOPTION FRONT FOR US. WE HAVE MOVED ONE MONTH CLOSER. AND IN 19 DAYS (NOT THAT I AM COUNTING) WE WILL HAVE ONE MORE MONTH DOWN! IF THINGS STAY THE WAY THEY ARE NOW AND THE REFERRALS STAY AT 12 MONTHS THEN WE SHOULD GET OUR REFERRAL IN MARCH 2007! WE WOULD THEN TRAVEL TO CHINA 6-8 WEEKS LATER SO WE WOULD BE GOING IN MAY TO PICK HER UP. OF COURSE WE WERE EXPECTING TO HAVE HER BY CHRISTMAS BUT THIS IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. SO JADEN'S FIRST CHRISTMAS WITH HER FAMILY LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BE IN NASHVILLE 2007. EVERYONE IS INVITED! :-)
IF REFERRALS SPEED UP WE MAY HAVE HER SOONER BUT WE DONT SEE THAT HAPPENING. IF THEY START GETTING LATER AND LATER I HAVE NO IDEA WHEN WE WILL GET JADEN, BUT WE ARE IN THIS FOR THE LONG HAUL. THE OUTCOME WILL BE WORTH IT.
NOW WE WILL JUST TRY TO OCCUPY OUR TIME IN OTHER WAYS, THIS IS HARD. I AM FORBIDDEN FROM BUYING ANYMORE CLOTHES FOR JADEN. HER CLOSET IS FULL. WITH THE CLOTHES THE FAMILY HAS BOUGHT AND MYSELF IT WAS ALREADY FULL, BUT ON OUR TRIP TO MISSISSIPPI WE BROUGHT BACK MORE CLOTHES FROM JADEN'S COUSIN JODUS. HE MAY BE A BOY BUT HIS MOM SURE DRESSED HIM FEMININE(JUST JOKING) SO JADEN NOW HOWS ABOUT 20 PAIRS OF OVERALLS. I GUESS THEY WANTED JODUS TO BE A FARMER!?! SHE EVEN HAS HARLEY DAVIDSON OVERALLS AND BOOTS TO MAKE HER LOOK COOL. SO NO MORE CLOTHES SHOPPING FOR ME. BUT WHEN I HAVE WAITED SO LONG TO BE A MOM THIS IS GOING TO BE HARD FOR ME. THERE IS SO MUCH CUTE STUFF.......

WE ARE STILL HERE!

WELL WE HAD A TORNADO ON FRIDAY AND NEEDLESS TO SAY IT HIT OUR TOWN. RUSTY WAS HOME AND I WAS ON MY WAY HOME FROM WORK BECAUSE THEY LET US GO EARLY. I HAVE ATTACHED SOME PHOTOS THAT WE TOOK OF THE DAMAGE. THE CHURCH YOU SEE IS ABOUT 1/4 MILE FROM OUR HOUSE "AS THE TORNADO FLYS". WE ARE FINE AND SO IS THE HOUSE. WE DIDNT HAVE LIGHTS FOR ABOUT 36 HOURS BUT THAT WAS NO BIG DEAL. THE BIG DEAL WAS I COULDNT GET INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD ON FRIDAY AND HAD TO PARK MY CAR AND WALK! THANK GOODNESS SOMEONE STOPPED AND PICKED ME UP OR I NEVER WOULD HAVE MADE IT HOME! SEEING ALL THIS HAS MADE ME THINK THE WAIT IS NOT SO BAD. AT LEAST WE WILLBE HERE TO SEE OUR DAUGHTER WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT. :-)