China Adoption: USCIS Appointment
Last Wednesday (September 28, 2011), our guide delivered Raean's US Passport with her IR3 Immigrant visa to our hotel. On Thursday morning we set off on our journey to Honolulu, Hawaii via Seoul, Korea. The journey was long and wore us out! I do want to say though that in my last 20 years of international travel I have never experienced better customer service than with Korean Airlines! I wish … [Read More...]
China Days 8, 9 & 10: U.S. Consulate
Last Friday, after getting RaeAn's passport, we boarded a plane for Guangzhou, China. Our flight was super easy and RaeAn did great! She played, took her bottle and slept the entire trip without a single tear! We thought the altitude would hurt her ears, but evidently it didn't! As we exited baggage claim we were met by our new guide, Elvan. He's hilarious! We have been laughing at this jokes and … [Read More...]
China Days 5, 6 & 7: Nanchang City Tours
We spent the last three days touring different parts of Nanchang city and Jiangxi Province while we waited on paperwork to be completed. We enjoyed a trip to the Chinese countryside where we toured a more traditional Chinese village, visited Nanchang's Traditional and Historic Pagoda, went shopping for famous Nanchang porcelain (China) and visited a Buddhist Temple (which made us think of Acts … [Read More...]
China Day 4 – Together at Last!
It's been a wonderful and emotional two days! It began Monday morning when we left our hotel at 5am to head to the airport for our 2 1/2 hour flight south to Nanchang city in Jiangxi Province. After exiting the airport we met our second guide, Meggy (I'm sure that's her "American" name! I doubt I could pronounce her real name:) ) Shortly after we got on the bus she told us (our family and another … [Read More...]
China Day 3 – RaeAn Li Crowson!
We are excited to introduce you to our daughter, RaeAn Li Crowson. We are also excited to celebrate Matthew's 11th birthday! What a special day. As you can see, RaeAn is exhausted. They said she cried for three hours this morning all the way to meet us in Nanchang (about a three hour drive). Matthew sang her to sleep.... so sweet. This afternoon is legal paperwork finalizing the adoption. I'll … [Read More...]
China Day 2 – The Forbidden City and The Great Wall
The past two days were filled with city tours and site seeing. The highlight was visiting and climbing to the top of The Great Wall of China... Lots of steps! We were joined by two other families also adopting children through CWA yesterday and are so blessed to have others here experiencing all of this with us! Tomorrow morning we leave the hotel at 5am for the airport to fly 2 and 1/2 … [Read More...]
Safe Arrival in Beijing
We had a fun, safe, easy and uneventful flight Kigali to Beijing. After immigration and customs we walked out of the secure area and found Mi Nan holding up a sign for us! We enjoyed a short ride through the city to our hotel as Mi Nan described the details of the next few days complete with "being in Beijing" advice and tips. We took a walk around the block and I kid you not, this city smells … [Read More...]
China Schedule
Below is our schedule while we're in China. We would greatly appreciate it if you could pray for us specifically on each day. As well, please continue to pray that the USCIS will process our daughter's Certificate of Citizenship in three days as they have done in the past before new changes take place! We leave Kigali tomorrow afternoon at 3:45pm and arrive in Beijing Friday afternoon around … [Read More...]
China Adoption Update: Headed to China!
In our last post we said, There are two possible dates for when we would be able to travel to pick up our baby girl: September 15 or October 28. Obviously, we prefer the date in September! In order for that to happen though we need two small miracles:) First, we need to receive travel approval from China by the end of August. Second, there needs to be an available appointment for us at the US … [Read More...]
China Adoption Referral: It’s a Girl!
We are very excited to announce the arrival of our China Adoption Referral! (Send me an email and I'll send you a picture.) She's seven and a half months old! We are still working on names and will let you know as soon as we decide. She will always be Precious though! We received "The Call" from our case worker in the States on July 27th while we were at a family encampment for Rwandan … [Read More...]
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