Our little angel

It's been a really busy week here; church events, work, sickness...you name it. But during it all, Kaley turned four months old! It's really cool, though, to look at pictures of our little angel every day and knowing that we are another day closer to having her home.

Here are a few more photos Dan and Megan took of Kaley while they were in Taiwan.

Looks like she's going to be the first petite girl in the family. :-)

Don't you just love those cheeks?!?!

I think she likes the doll from her cousin Avery.

Our home study is progressing and should be finished in about a week, then it's in the hands of the governments. Thank you everybody for praying for all of us as the process continues. It is a real blessing to have such wonderful family and friends. (And I know you all are almost as anxious to meet Kaley as we are!)

More pictures!

Dan & Megan are home with their Avery (yea & thank you, God!). They were kind enough to love on Kaley and take lots of pictures. They even delivered a box of things to her for us. You'll see Avery and Kaley in some of these pictures together...what two precious little ones! Ok, friends and family...here you go!

LOVE that smile!

Avery & Kaley

Kathy (Dan's mom) is showing Kaley who we are.

I'm out of time for now but I'll post more of them later (so no scolding from "Aunt Karen", ok? :-)

Home Study continues

Today was our first home study visit. We have been blessed with a wonderful agency and today Lisa came to our home. Nearly three hours in our home and asking us questions, and she didn't run out the door laughing, so I'm thinking that's a good thing. :-)

Thank you to all of you who were praying about the visit. Please continue praying that the rest of the study goes well and goes quickly. Also, please pray for Lisa, our case worker. She is under a big time crunch right now with traveling and preparing several studies. I know she, and we, would appreciate prayers over the next few weeks.

Our friends, Dan and Megan, are in Taiwan picking up their daughter, Avery. They have held our Kaley and even fed her. Megan says she is doing great and loves to laugh. Thanks so much, Dan and Megan, and congratulations!

2nd Pictures (Oct. 30th)

We received these updated photos late last week. I may be partial, but I think she's pretty adorable. Our friends are there right now and said that Kaley loves to smile. That's good, because God gave her a beautiful one. :-)

We are on our way to being parents!

Finally, after 15 years Michael and I are on our way to becoming parents! It's now a month after we received "the call" and it still seems surreal. I can hardly believe that the beautiful little girl in the pictures will one day be our daughter. God's timing is perfect and we will continue to trust that the rest of this process will go by as He sees fit.

For now, we will enjoy seeing her pictures around the house and knowing that we will one day get to meet this precious little one. Friends are there picking up their daughter this week (yea, God! yea, Dan & Megan!) and have actually held and fed our little girl, too. (Thank you so much for loving on her for us.)

No more time to write this evening. Have to prepare the house for a home study visit this weekend, but several friends and family (you know who you are!) have been asking if I'd started a blog yet, so here you go. :-) For now, enjoy the photos of our beautiful Kaley Liane. These are the first pictures we received of her. Talk about love at first sight!