Flashback....

2 years ago this month Paul and I gathered up all our hopes and dreams for a child, placed them in an envelope and then sent them to China via our agency in Austin. It was 4 months of filling out forms, being interviewed by the social worker, getting fingerprinted, having things notarized/certified/authenticated, and then packaging it all up nice and neat with the hopes that every "i" was dotted and every "t" was crossed. The photo to the left shows our complete dossier proudly spread out on the coffee table.

Fast forward 2 years and we don't even own that coffee table anymore!!! But we still have our hopes and dreams for our child, we are in the final weeks (hopefully)of waiting for our referral and still can't believe this could actually happen for us. Could our dreams of becoming parents really come to fruition?

I said it in '05, again in '06, and will say it again in '07 but I feel with a huge degree of certainty that this WILL be our last Christmas without Avery. So come on December hurry up and get the heck out of dodge so we can get to January and that stork flying straight to our house.



Here is our proud moment standing in the UPS store back in December '05 with our complete dossier ready to get this show on the road.