First Water Fight.....

I am sure we will have many many more!!

Off We Go!!!!

We are leaving......

Can't believe we will be bringing our boys home!!!! WOW!!!

I will be updating our travels by Facebook messaging only. So make sure you check you messages. See you all soon!!

Genesee Christian School's Kindergarten Graduation!!

Brooklyn pointing at her hand print!!

All smiles for her big night!!

Brooklyn did a GREAT job as a narrartor in the play!! All the kids did a great job remembering there lines!!

Singing the song "Put your Troubles in a Basket!"

My beautiful Graduate!!!!

Brooklyn and her some of her friends Ava and Hallee.

Brooklyn and Mrs. Saunders.

Mrs. Saunders is truly one of the best teachers.

Brooklyn and Mrs Gebhart.

Mrs. Gebhart is the school principal.

Brooklyn with Morgan and Mina

Brooklyn with her Papa!

Brooklyn with Great Grandma Whitehead!

Grandma gave her pretty Pink roses for Graduation!!

Brooklyn with Grandma and Grandpa!!

Brooklyn with the BEST Daddy in the WORLD!!

Brooklyn and Mommy

Jason and I are very PROUD parents for our wonderful little girl!!

We still can't believe that Brooklyn graduated from kindergarten. It still seems like she was born yesterday. =)

Thank you everyone who came out on a Thursday night and made Brooklyn's night so special!!

We love you all very much and I know she was so happy to see everyone!! =)

Hello Birdie!!!

Yes, this is the wreath that hangs beautifully on the front door and is also home to a beautiful Robin and her babies.

I was only able to get a picture of one of her eggs.
I have always loved the Robin Blue egg color.

Brooklyn thinks they are so cute!! I am not sure I agree with her right now, but I know they will be soon!

The babies are very hungry and wondering where there mother is....

Her she is watching me very carefully.

The mommy bird is not very happy that I am taking pictures of her babies. I am sorry Robin, but if you build a nest in my wreath....I get to take pictures. =)

Family of Five Very Soon.....

Sorry, I gave you all the return date. This is the actual date we leave to pick up our boys!!

Grandparents Day at School!!!

Brooklyn K-5 class!!

(sorry these pictures are so yellow. we were in the gym and had horrible lighting...plus I am not a professional=)
They did such a great job singing.

Kobe's 2nd grade class!!

They did a great job singing as well!!

I like this picture of Grandma and Great Grandma looking at Brooklyn's school work. She really enjoyed showing them what she was learning!!

Papa, Grandma (My mom) and Great-Grandma W. with Brooklyn.

Grandpa (my dad) decided to go with Kobe to his class. I feel bad that I don't have any pictures of Kobe in his classroom.

As you can tell the classrooms were packed full of wonderful grandparents!!

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Wentzel

and Papa and Great-Grandma Whitehead for coming to Grandparent's Day!!






This is Brooklyn's Class singing!!



This is Kobe's and Brooklyn's class singing together in Spanish!!

The End is Near!!!

Levi
Landon

Dear Julie,

I have good news for the family. We got the Civil ruling decree!!!!! We have also made AIT appointment on June 11.
Hopefully, the family will come a couple of days earlier before AIT interview. We will suggest the family visit two boys at Jonah House for 2-3 days before they take them to hotel and then stay in Taiwan for at least 7 days in total. It is not easy for children at their age and we hope that the moving transition will be smoothly with gradual separation. Tomorrow, we will have a seminar soon and will discuss the detail picking up procedure for the brothers.

The two children do not attend school, they will be available for Skype visit with the family if the Wheteheads would like to. Please advise what weekdays they would like to set up the skype visit. Our skype address: jonah house

Their follow up reports will be following with the next e-mails.


Penny Wu
Adoption Coordinator
Cathwel Service

Guess what this means.............

We are leaving early June to get our boys: Levi and Landon!!!

I am just screaming with joy and of course Brooklyn is excited to spend time with Grandma and Grandpa!!!!

We serve an AWESOME GOD!!!

Thank you God for allowing us to be parents to Levi and Landon.

Look out Taiwan......here we come!!!

More Adoption Update....

Well...the court date (over in Taiwan) went as planed. We received an email telling us that everything went great and that we should hear something in 2-3 weeks (so be looking for another update in about 2-3 weeks.) This is when we should get a "travel call dates." We are so excited to bring our boys home and to be done with this process. It has been a LONG road, but God has been there to move all those crazy mountains from this adoption. We are just praising God for His continues love He has shown us and for helping us finish this adption. We thank God for such wonderful Family and Friends. We could not have gotten through this adoption without your love, support and prayers.

Sorry we don't have any more updates then that. Hopefully we will soon. =)

Right now we are just busy, busy, busy getting everything done for us to be ready to leave.

We are hoping and praying that this is the last package we will be sending to the boys.

I will be sending it out in the mail on Friday.

What is not pictured is the scrap book that has updated pictures of grandparents, Jason, Brooklyn and me (of course=)

Update....

Email: From Julie (our case worker for our adoption)


We have a court date for April 19, 2010!!!!

(insert....oh my word...WHAT?)

We wrote back immediately and asked the crazy question.....What does this mean for us and when do we get to bring the BOYS HOME?


Email: From Julie

The court date for April 19th is the final hearing for your adoption. Then it is a 4-6 week for the process to go through and to get our travel date.
YOUR BOYS WILL BE HOME THIS SUMMER!!!


We are so excited and nervous, but most of all we are READY TO BE DONE!!!
WE are praise God for the mountain he has moved for us to be able to bring our boys home.

New Pictures of the Boys!!!

Noah

June 5, 2007

WU, SYUN-HUA吳巡華

Finally, we got some good pictures of the "little man."

Noah's update sounds great!!! They say he is doing wonderfully and is generally a very happy little boy. That makes me happy!!! =)

Levi

February 21, 2006

WU, MENG-RU吳孟儒

These are the only pictures they sent me of Levi, but last time we had a bunch of pictures of him. =)

Levi's updates sounds like a perfectly normal 4 year old boy. They said, he loves to play ball, do puzzles, and pretty much all the boy things. =)

Finally.....

We just got new pictures and information on the boys. I would post them now, but I have to get going this morning!! So, I will post them this evening. I just wanted everyone to know. =)
No, we still have not heard anything as to when we get to go pick them up. I am hoping it is sooner rather then later.
We did fine out that they got their package and they loved it. =)

What a Great Day!!!

Rust Park

One of our favorite parks!!!
We went to the park on Thursday and had so much fun.
It is finally getting nicer and warmer outside. =)

Brooklyn just loves the Monkey Bars and she is really good at them as well. =)

She made it all the way across the Monkey Bars

My little model!!!

My little Monkey!!

We had a great time at the park.

We sure do love our Little Girl!!!