hey this is brooke and i bet your having an awesome time, did you get me any pearls:)my friend said that when she was in china everyone treated them like movie stars to. and she also said that everyone whanted her to take pictures with them,and that everyone had blach teeth(yuck)we'll i hope your having a good time. love you,brooke h
Tomorrow we go to a Temple for a monk blessing on the all the babies!
A rainy day in Guangzhou
Enjoy!
Another Cute Pic
The Barbie on the other pic is our gift from The White Swan!
We have the sweetest girl on earth!
The Chinese people call her "Spicy girl" because she is from Chongqing
Hula Girl ???
Where is Dora the Explorer----China!
Loving Daddy
She fell asleep on the way to the park and loves to be held in Daddy's arms.
Our Sweet Claire
We love her!
Chinese Acrobat Miss Claire
How does she do that ?
Another cute pic in the stroller
We took a walk around the hotel
A baby in Chongqing
Look at the carrier
Chongqing
This is Claire's Province
Yes, we climbed this!
This is where we climbed to get our hero card :)
More Great Wall Photos
Amazing!
More Photos
Hope you enjoy!
Photo Album
More pics
Photo Album
Trip Album, hope you can see
Subway and Jason the actor ?
Jason is famous here ! People love to stop him and ask him about America. Some guys at Subway asked him if he was an actor. These guys just watch us and want to practice English. Go figure,how about Texas slang ?
The Summer Palace Dragon Boat Ride
Very neat on the lake at the Summer Palace
Pics from Beijing
Pics of our day
Welcome to our Journey to China
We hope you will love following our journey to baby Claire JoLee Qi Gray. More to come!
In this spot we will post our travel schedule to come soon.
Prayer Requests as of 9/10/2007
Hi Fellow Friends of Prayer: These are our specific needs: 1. Travel reservations, flights etc to be wise in travel decisions. 2. Weather good for travel and no delays, weight limits on suitcases okay and good health for everyone. 3. Care, love and safety over Claire until we get her and wrap her in kisses and love in our arms. 4. Our families while we are gone, Simba and Texie too. Mary Ann's grandmother is ill. 5. Praise God for all friends, loved ones and plans to suceed for God's glory. We love you all! MA and J
Gotcha Day is confirmed September 17th
Well we have our confirmed GOTCHA DAY as September 17th. YEAH! Now, because of the time change 13 hours ahead, the gotcha process will be happening late on the 16th here. So, we hope to have pics as soon as we can.
8 Days and Counting and we are ready!! I can't do another list or make another trip to Wal Mart or Target for one more thing, HA /HA !
Our Schedule and Trip Plans- Leaving September 11th, 2007
It's official, we leave September 11th for our trip to China. This may change but here is our schedule for now : Sept. 11th Leave DFW to Tokyo to Bejing, arrive Sept. 12th 8:55 p.m. Sept. 12-13th relax in hotel, rest and get to know our surroundings. Shop ? Sept. 14th Delight Day Tour of Bejing Pandas, Summer Palace and more ! Sept. 14th Evening Chinese Acrobatic Show Sept. 15th GreatWall Tour, Tianamen Square and Forbidden City. Sept. 16th-17th Fly to Chongqing Province to meet Claire for the first time. May change to meet Claire on the 17th ? Will keep you updated. GOTCHA DAY! Sept. 17-21st See Claire's province, tour WWII Museum and her area. Sept. 21st Fly to Guangzhou Sept. 21-27th Tour, shop, medical exam, shots, passport photos etc. Sept. 27th American Consulate Appointment Sept. 28th Its Official, see and swear to love, honor and cherish our new daughter forever! Sept. 29th Hong Kong Sept. 29th-Oct. 1st Tour Island of Hong Kong, Shop, maybe do Disneyland Hong Kong ? Pack, get ready to go home! Oct. 2nd Leave Hong Kong, fly to Tokyo, LA and Dallas. Arrive at DFW 5:25 p.m. on October 2nd Oct. 3rd------ Get used to being home! Get Simba, Texie and rest and sleep. Love to all, we will keep you updated ! MA and J
So Many Cute Things!
How Fun, gifts for our baby ! These are just some of the cute things we got this spring.
Will this weight too much ?
We did many trial runs of packing and unpacking. Of course, we must have a grass skirt !
Lady Bugs on the Run, about to be eaten!
Look at these cute cupcakes!
Simba has a new bed ?
We have to watch this cat !
Province
Fu Qi is from the Chongqing Province. Baby Claire is in an orphanage called Yunyang County Chengxiang SWI. We hope to travel in early September to get her.
3 comments:
BEAUTIFUL! BEAUTIFUL! BEAUTIFUL!! Glad y'all are getting to see so many neat things!!! Love y'all!! Laura
Jason, can we have your autograph when you get home?? :)
hey this is brooke and i bet your having an awesome time, did you get me any pearls:)my friend said that when she was in china everyone treated them like movie stars to. and she also said that everyone whanted her to take pictures with them,and that everyone had blach teeth(yuck)we'll i hope your having a good time. love you,brooke h
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