CHINESE TRAVEL APPROVAL ARRIVED TODAY!!

Yippeeee! We have received our approval to travel to China today. You may be asking, "what does that mean?" Well it basically means we have cleared one of 2 major hurdles. We are still waiting on the American Consulate appointment and after we receive that then we will know when we travel. We are still hoping that we will leave sometime in mid to late August so Madeline will not miss her whole first 2 weeks of school but we just do not know. Please pray that the American Consulate can schedule our appointments SOON. Thank you all

No travel word yet

I love this picture of a baby piggy smelling a flower. Rebekah Wei was born in the year of the pig and we have chosen baby piggy's as a theme for decorating her room. We are still waiting on our travel approval from China. We are not all too worried about the time it is taking to receive them becasue our agency said it could take up to 3 weeks. They believe that they could hear something this week. Once we get our travel approval we can make our American Consulate appointment and we should be off with in 2 weeks. A good estimate of a departure date would be the last week in August.

there is something in the air...

FOOTBALL SEASON IS ALMOST HERE. GO 49ERS!!!!

Breakfast in Bed

Madeline conspired with her daddy the other day to make me breakfast in bed. As they get into the kitchen Madeline turns to him and says, "you do know how to cook, don't you?" It was a delicious breakfast of toast and orange juice.

Madeline's 1st Ranger's Game...well sort of

Technically, this is Madeline's 2nd Ranger's game but the 1st she did not spend it with her head buried in daddy's chest because the Ranger's mascot, Captain, came within 20 rows of her. She enjoyed the game, however, she confused her new favorite player, Josh Hamilton with the Princess Diaries character Josh Pryant. She cheered loudly when Hamilton had a base hit and then scored a run (unfortunately, it was a slow night for him) and wanted to know why he was not up all the time. Madeline learned the "LETS GO RANGER'S LETS GO" cheer, although got a bit mixed up and would shout LETS GO 49ER'S LETS GO, which got some strange looks to say the least. She also learned to say CHARGE after the trumpet sound, although she never got why we said charge and not "hit the ball." We were fortunate to be sitting in front of a mother and son from Tokyo who were there to watch Ichiro, the right fielder with the Mariners. We were sitting in the home run porch right behind Ichiro and I was able to get a few GREAT shots of him making a play.