Today was Apple Day!

What a busy but fun day we had! Our apple tree was just starting to drop some of it's apples so we thought we had better pick them! I think we picked about 50 apples and we still have half of the tree covered in apples. I have no idea what kind of apples they are but they are sweet and good for baking. We have a bunny that likes to frequent our yard and munch on the garden. He loves the fallen apples and the cabbage. I have tried to take a picture of him, but he is fast.









First thing I made was a batch of applesauce and its all ready to store for the season.





The last thing I made was an Apple Pie! Of course we will have it A La Mode !
Boy did the house smell fragrant and good! I think tomorrow I will make an apple cake if I can find my bundt pan.

Enjoy the fall season!

Searching my soul and rejoicing

Let your father and your mother be glad,
and let her who bore you rejoice.
Proverbs 23: 22,24-25







And she made a vow; "O Lord of heaven, if you will look
down upon my sorrow and answer my prayer and give me
a son, then I will give him back to you and he'll
be yours for his entire lifetime......
1 Samuel 1:11



Oh little pumpkin, I praise God for you and your birth. I feel the sorrow and the pain that your mother and father must have felt placing you in a public place where you would be found. They so loved you that they knew they could not take care of you and wanted so much to give you a life they could not provide for you. I pray that we will honor their wish and be a family where you just blossom into the most loving and caring Christian boy.....

I am there with you little one ...look up to the stars over head they are shining brightly for you my sweet precious boy.


Moon beam kisses!

Wordless Wednesday

Photo's Courtesy of Creative Commons


I though these were just too cute to not post! Happy Wednesday! Just think next year Baby Sweet Cheeks will get to celebrate fall and all of the fun traditions around our house.
I can't wait!!!!!

IT'S TRUE.......

We have found our child! We have alot to do filing paperwork for LOI, waiting for PA and LOA and then TA to Zhuzhou,Hunan China. HE yes it is an adorable boy that is just 17 months old and is in a foster family and is developing typically in all aspects. He does have a SN but I want to keep that private. There is so much to do! I have to find boy stuff and set up a blog site for auctioning off all of the girly stuff. We are just so very excited and joyful! I am very happy it is a boy and the moment I saw him I knew in my heart he was mine! You know all along I have thought it would be a girl, but God has a remarkable way of giving you what you need. HE so impressed upon me this was my child. The child that I had prayed for and dreamt about.

First things first though is I have my right ankle surgery on Nov. 6th. I am thinking about renting one of these so I can get around the house and do laundry, cook etc. What do you think?


I love the color! It sure would make life easier than with crutches for 6 weeks.

So for now I am looking at changing my blog to something a little more color appropriate. I have some idea's. I have started another blog for HIM but so far it is private.

The one thing I have not shared is USCIS has lost our I171 H renewal. We are in the pits of sending emails everyday to them asking where it is. Thank goodness for FED EX varification. DHS is telling us that they never got our extension request last year. Which I can prove otherwise. Thank goodness!! It was such a crazy year with family tragedies that our home study got put off. Apparently they did not like that.

We may have to file a I800 now or get a lawyer. I am trying to figure out which will be the fastest and least amount of money to spend. LOL....

Hope you have a beautiful fall!

Wordless Wednesday

HAPPY MID AUTUMN FESTIVAL!!

The Yo-Mei Mountain Moon
by Li Bai
The autumn moon is half round above the Yo-mei Mountain;
The pale light falls in and flows with the water of the Ping-chiang River.
Tonight I leave Ching-chi of limpid stream for the three Canyons.
And glide down past Yu-chow, thinking of you whom I can not see.

Happy Moon Festival little dumpling! May you have a wonderful time.... Can't wait to celebrate with you soon!

DRUM ROLL PLEASE........

Thank you so much for all of you wonderful gals that entered for my 100th Post Give Away!
It was such fun reading all of the posts. The adoption community is just so amazing to me. We all just have this common bond even though we are separated by distance. I pray that we all will see our children's faces soon.

Okay enough blabbering..... There were 52 entries for the give away! YEAH... The name that Princess picked out of my Longaberger basket was.... SAMMONS!!! This is a precious couple on their way to go get their adorable daughter Lexi in Nov! Please all go and see their darling little girl at Waiting For Lexi and congratulate them!


Happy Fall Y'all!!

29 Months and counting for DTC and LID!

IT has been that long since we have been LID and DTC to China. 29 MONTHS Yikes!!! Adoption Forecast is saying it could be until July 2nd 2017 until we receive a referral. There are 402 days of referrals to go through before they get to our date. They are currently referring 3.1 days per month. Well at that rate we are glad we are now in the SN's line with our agency. Princess would be 15 years old when we would get a referral. I keep on praying that there will be a miracle for my friends that are waiting (and for us too!).

My thought though is that God has a plan for each and everyone of us in this process. If you just have faith and patience he will bring you your child.

GOD SPEED SWEET CHERRY BLOSSOMS!!!

Oh, and don't forget to enter my give away on my 100th post (the last post). The adorable knot dress is so cute and my fellow Cherry Blossom friend Cora who is in the April DTC 2007 group will make it for you out of your choice of fabric. Princess will help me draw the name!

100th Post Give Away!!!!

Hello everyone! Today is my 100th post! Boy it sure did take me long enough to get to this post. Sorry .... Life kinda got in the way.The prize if you don't remember is an adorable Knot Apron Dress hand made for your little girl by Cora at Little Miss's Blankets and Stuff. She is out of some of the fabric she offered previously.



Don't you just love it? It is just so girly girl and twirly. What fun and great colors too! It is sweet with the little apron. I can see it with a t shirt under it and some black Mary Jane's or a turtle neck and those Ugg boots or just the dress and barefoot in the summer sun. I just can't wait to see it on one of your girls. She has 4 different fabric choices for this dress and can make it in sizes 6 mos.to 4t and 5 to 8. So,so precious. Go and dream.....

Here are the new fabric choices...

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1.For the 100th post give away I will have it open until Thursday Oct. 1st 5 pm PST so for 5 days and then I will have Princess pull a random drawing out of the list of names. I will post it as soon as I can. I hope you win!!!



You will have several ways to enter.
1. 1 entry for leaving me a comment on the 100th post.

2. 2 entries for doing a post about it on your blog and linking your post to my blog.

3. 1 entry for being a follower of my blog.

So, you have 4 tries at winning the adorable knot apron dress designed by Cora in the fabric and size of your choice.

Post #99

Hi everyone!
Yes I have been gone for a very long time! What a busy and crazy 4 months it has been. When I have time I will catch you all up on what we were doing. I did find out I have to have surgery on my right ankle as I have a completely torn tendon. OUCH!! Which means by the way that I will not be able to drive for 2-2.5 months. I just laugh otherwise I will cry. I have absolutely no idea how we will make it through that time with out me driving. We only have 3 days a week of therapies for Princess outside of school pick up and drop off.
All of our family is in CA so we will be trusting that the Lord will provide us with what we need!

So, I goofed! We are only on Post #99. Apparently, I had one post that was never published. It was just a draft. So, I had to contact my friend about the give away and see if she would still be able to make the Knot dress. She can but, the fabric choices have changed. As soon as we have those ready to go we will have you sign up for the give away. I will be posting it this weekend if dear C and I can get the information together.

We made it to Lake Tahoe this summer and had a wonderful time. Here are a few pictures. I got the nasty flu bug and spent 3 days in the cabin. Therefore not many fun pictures were taken.


Hanging out at Sugar Pine State Park!


My water girl!


Princess is ready to go to the beach!


Our adorable cabin we stayed in at Lake Tahoe!

Well I have missed you all and look forward to catching up!