Back to School

Regina is in 3rd grade! She loves school. She does NOT like getting up in the am, its been hard but this week it's getting better!
Now I can get focused and get some work done.
Need to make some money so we can go to China!
Nick and I think that by November we will know who
Janae is and then travel in Jan. or Feb. 09. It will be cold
in China that time of year, I hope we can still go and hike
the Great Wall!
I'm doing a cleanse starting today so I can loose some weight
and get in shape before we travel!
My goal is 20 pds lighter and to walk 10,000 steps a day!
We had a wonderful time in Red Feather Lake, we stayed at our friends cabin
and went fishing every day all day, caught lots of trout! Regina caught two!
The dogs loved it too, they went swimming everyday all day!
Want to post some pictures but we are using shutter fly and I can't down load them!
Check back for future pictures of our summer vacation!

Happy Family Day

July 2nd, 2001 was the first day Regina was put in our arms! Wow seven years ago, time has really gone by quickly! We celebrated by shopping (of course getting gotcha day presents) and out to lunch. Our friends and neighbors invited us over for a wonderful dinner. It was really a nice time.

Some people call the first day their child is put in their arms "Gotcha Day", we like to call it "Family Day" because that was the first day we were a family of three!

When we were in China I made up a song and sang it to Regina when she was a baby, when she got older she didn't want me to sing it :( but this year she loved it!!

Here it is..............

Once upon a time in China

there was a little girl who needed a mommy and a daddy

so her mommy and her daddy went to get her and bring her home to Colorado

and her name is Regina Ya Xuan

and her mommy and her daddy love her very very much!

I'm a rock star don't ya think!

Wedding Aniversary

Nick and I celebrated our 18th wedding aniversary today! Of course Regina joined us.

We had a really beautiful Rocky Mountain day. Went to the zoo, then imax theater and watched The Alps movie filmed in Switzerland, it made Nick homesick and made me want to move to Switzerland! Then we went out for a Mexican late lunch it was great, to bad Regina doesn't like Mexican food.......

Enjoy some pictures from our day.

Picture

Regina and two of the dogs, Dude and Ollie

Join us on our Journey to Janae

I am so excited to start our blog! I have been reading blogs for over a year now on other families on the same journey! I have a feeling we will be matched this summer so thought I would get a head start so our friends and family can follow our journey.
Regina is also adopted from China and for the past 2 years has been advocating for a little sister from China, we caved, we are going for it!
When our dossier (paperwork) went to China we thought the wait would be 17 months until travel to China. It's been one year since our paperwork reached China.
It has now turned into a 3 to 4 year wait.................we really don't want to wait that long.
Nick and I have always talked about the waiting child program at CCAI (our adoption agency). We decided to go ahead and apply for this program in November 07, we were accepted (most people are)!
It should be a 10 to 12 month wait in this program so we are very excited. It has already been 6 months!
Nick and I did a lot of soul searching and have decided what special needs we feel our family could deal with.
So join us on this really exciting journey to get Janae, a mei mei for Regina!

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