Our little Girl!

Here's a few photos from our trip to meet our little girl from Cheboksary Russia.

She has big blue eyes and light brown hair. She is very quiet and shy. We played with her for several hours one day only.

We are home safe and VERY glad to be home.

Thank you to everyone who checks our blog... we want to keep all our friends and family updated.

If you double click on any picture, it will enlarge on your screen.

Here's a link to our adoption agency, Adoption Associates, Inc.

We will post more again soon.

Almost home from Russia!

Hi everyone,
We are in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is right now, Thursday evening about 8:15pm. 6 hours ahead of Michigan time.
We are VERY tired.
We saw Anna on Monday for almost 5 hours.
She is very cute, very shy and very little!
A problem occured when she came through the door at the host family we were staying with in Cheboksary, Russia.

The photos of the little girl sent to us two weeks earlier were not the same as the little girl in the door way! OMG!!!

Apparently this problem has never happened in the history of the 12 years of adoptions from Russia with our agency.

But it happened to us!

Anyway, when we get home I will post photos of the little girl we saw on Monday and will share more of our story.

We changed our flight to come home from Moscow a day early so we will be back home Friday afternoon.

We stayed in Cheboksary Russia with an absolutely wonderful host family. They took very good care of us and cooked for us and took us to do a little sight seeing (when we were not sleeping, of course).

We have not seen any sights here in Amsterdam... too tired.

I never imagined this kind of travel would knock the wind out of you so much!

Anyway, love to all of you checking our blog and we will post again very soon.

Traveling to Russia!

Today we have made plans to travel to Russia to visit our soon-to-be daughter. OMG! We are filled with many different emotions.

Our itinerary will be to fly to Moscow on Saturday, May 31st; a 12 hour flight; then board a train and that is a 12 hour ride to arrive in Cheboksary, Russia on Monday June 2nd.

We will only have one day to visit with our 2-be daughter. We have hired a doctor to travel with us to evaluate her and give us a professional opinion on her medical condition. We will be traveling also with a "regional representative" that works with our adoption agency so, we will have someone who will help us with translating, etc.

We only get to see her for one day, Monday. We will then stay in Cheboksary Monday night and travel by train back to Moscow Tuesday evening (all night) and arrive in Moscow on Wednesday morning. Our plans are then to do some sightseeing and resting before flying back home on Friday, June 6th.

Thank you to those who visit our blog and for those of you praying for our safe travels and speedy process, to bring our daughter home!

We will try to blog as much as we can while traveling... unsure of how accessible Internet cafe' s will be...