Well, here I am back to blogging again!  The last time I posted on my blog it was 2009 and we were still living in Dalian, China.  An awful lot has happened since then!

We are back living in Ephrata, WA and as most of you know, in the process of bringing another little girl home from China.  Her name is Maia Yu Le Wall (at least it will be very soon!) and she turned eight years old last February.

Doesn't she look like a girl with a silly sense of humor?  Don't you think she'll fit right into this crazy family?

Here is where we are in our process:

We began in May of 2011 and received our PA (pre-approval) at the end of that month.  Then began the craziness of paperwork: homestudy, dossier....all the rest.  We were finally DTC (date our paperwork went to China) May 25, 2012.  We received our LID (date our paperwork was logged in to China) on June 25, and our LOA (letter of approval) on July 30, 2012.  Now we are waiting for our final approval from immigration and then we will travel to China to get our dear daughter!

I will post more later today as there is much much more to tell, but right now I'm off to celebrate Alaina's 8th birthday with her!