Hey there everyone! We are home. Sorry, there have been not blog updates, it seems China outlawed some blog sites and facebook shortly before we traveled. Now that we are back I will start posting a few things each day from out trip.
Jonathon is doing great! We couldn't have asked for things to go any better. We are so grateful to God and our friends and family, who we know have bee praying for us! It makes all the difference.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
It's almost time!
Well, it is 10:54pm on Thursday evening. We might be working all night to be ready as we try to finalize things and repack for the 3rd or 4th time. But soon we will be on our way to China. Our shuttle service will pick us up at 4am, ugh!
Tonight was tough. We got to celebrate Kyiah's birthday, but then we kind of faked leaving to say goodbye to the girls tonight. We didn't want to have to wake them at 4am. It was tough both cried. Becca said, "Please don't go." We cried. My mom cried. Thankfully, Kyiah calmed down quickly after we left. Becca had a more difficult time since she has more of an understanding of how long we will be gone. Jim and I both agreed that if we do another adoption it will have to be domestic because we couldn't do this again.
I will miss my baby girls. I am posting some cute pics. of them from Halloween and Kyiah's birthday.
Please be praying for all of us! We definitely need to keep those prayers coming.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
UPDATE ON THE VAN KIRKS
So I have been meaning to get this accomplished for a while, however, I was sick, the girls were sick, Jim was traveling, etc... Every time I tried I would get close to finishing and someone would melt down.
Anyway, there is a lot going on, so let me begin.
First, we are finally going to China, seriously! We have our tickets and everything. We leave early on November 6th. Our gotcha day is suppose to be November 8th. That will be the day they place Jonathon is our arms.
We plan to update our blog while in China.
We will be returning on November 20th at DFW airport. We will be on Continental flight CO1139 and will come in @ 10:17pm from Newark, NJ. So any of you who live in the DFW area please feel free to welcome us home. We would love it!
Now the second major news in the Van Kirk household is that we are moving, yes, that's right moving, once again. It is kind of funny actually. Centex Homes brought us to Texas. Now Pulte Homes owns Centex and their headquarters are in Michigan. You guessed it, we are going full circle and moving back to Troy, Michigan, outside Detroit.
We have mixed feelings. We are thrilled to have a job! We are thrilled to be moving back near family and dear friends. However, I find it slightly cruel that we are having to move back in January.
We are also sad because we are leaving wonderful friends here in Texas and a fabulous support for us as adoptive parents and for our children, Tapestry at Irving Bible Church.
We know God is control and He has his reasons and we are simply trusting in that. Already we have seen his hands on things. The schools in the area we are moving to have a Chinese language and culture immersion beginning in elementary. This will be wonderful for Becca Yi and Jonathon.
Also we just found out today that the home we are renting for the next year is actually owned by a friend of Jim's from GM. That takes a lot of worry out of what it will be like for us from far away.
The girls are thrilled that there will be no fire ants in Michigan and right now they seem to think that all the snow will be great!
It looks like they will be packing us up after Christmas!
Please keep us in your prayers because we are certainly going to need them the next few months.
Anyway, there is a lot going on, so let me begin.
First, we are finally going to China, seriously! We have our tickets and everything. We leave early on November 6th. Our gotcha day is suppose to be November 8th. That will be the day they place Jonathon is our arms.
We plan to update our blog while in China.
We will be returning on November 20th at DFW airport. We will be on Continental flight CO1139 and will come in @ 10:17pm from Newark, NJ. So any of you who live in the DFW area please feel free to welcome us home. We would love it!
Now the second major news in the Van Kirk household is that we are moving, yes, that's right moving, once again. It is kind of funny actually. Centex Homes brought us to Texas. Now Pulte Homes owns Centex and their headquarters are in Michigan. You guessed it, we are going full circle and moving back to Troy, Michigan, outside Detroit.
We have mixed feelings. We are thrilled to have a job! We are thrilled to be moving back near family and dear friends. However, I find it slightly cruel that we are having to move back in January.
We are also sad because we are leaving wonderful friends here in Texas and a fabulous support for us as adoptive parents and for our children, Tapestry at Irving Bible Church.
We know God is control and He has his reasons and we are simply trusting in that. Already we have seen his hands on things. The schools in the area we are moving to have a Chinese language and culture immersion beginning in elementary. This will be wonderful for Becca Yi and Jonathon.
Also we just found out today that the home we are renting for the next year is actually owned by a friend of Jim's from GM. That takes a lot of worry out of what it will be like for us from far away.
The girls are thrilled that there will be no fire ants in Michigan and right now they seem to think that all the snow will be great!
It looks like they will be packing us up after Christmas!
Please keep us in your prayers because we are certainly going to need them the next few months.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
Yeah God! We are moving on toward Jonathon!
Well, we got good news on Wednesday that the U.S. Consulate found our paperwork and is processing it now.
It looks like due to holidays in China we will be traveling either October 22 or 29th. We had hoped to travel sooner, but it is nice to have a date to work toward finally!
It won't be long now and Jonathon Peng will be home!!
It looks like due to holidays in China we will be traveling either October 22 or 29th. We had hoped to travel sooner, but it is nice to have a date to work toward finally!
It won't be long now and Jonathon Peng will be home!!
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