More Thanksgiving Photos

The Family.........

I snagged some awesome photos from Katie's Facebook.....

Brother Larry and Tara at the homestead

Tara, Mr. Hanky and Larry at

South Park Pottery in Fairplay

Another Year & More Waiting.....

Englemann Spruce Christmas Tree: Decorated with old time family favorites

Larry and Katie at our house for Thanksgiving weekend.....me and Mike and on right

We can't believe a year has come and gone since we were logged in. Time has truly flown by! Yet, it is difficult to think the wait continues to grow. It seems each month that goes by the wait becomes longer by several days or longer. We recall thinking that we would be matched by now and making preparations to travel to China...now it looks like we'll travel in 2009. If we are lucky!

As you may have read in a previous post, we are adopting domestically during the extended wait. This too has been a little disappointing, as we thought we would have a child before the holidays. Yet, we've been fortunate to have been matched a couple of times, but we've had to say "no". The first time was difficult, but our social worker has been very supportive. Linda - you are the best! We must put the safety our our Chinese child first and he/she is already part of our family. We know there is a good domestic match out there...until then...we wait.

Spooky Night

I hope everyone had a happy and safe Halloween!

Mike carved the pumpkin on the left. You can tell he has much more talent compared to mine on the right!

Now that Halloween is over......here come the Christmas commericals!!!! I think I've seen five in just the past 8 minutes of watching TV.

In other news....we are starting to receive information on children. Now it is just a matter of being chosen and and choosing a match. We'll keep everyone posted :)