More Easter Pictures

Easter morning at home...looking for a hidden Easter basket.







Easter at Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Egg decorating and hunt at Grandma's house!

Today we had our first egg decorating and hunt event. Longji enjoyed the festivities and we of course had a good time hanging out with the family. Tomorrow the holiday weekend continues with church in the morning and dinner at grandma and grandpa's house with another egg hunt. More pictures to come...

1st grade program, floats, Build-a-Bear and Homestudies!

We are busy little bees lately! I am posting pictures from Longji's 1st grade program. It was a song and dance presentation. He also had to put together a fiesta float for the school parade. We made it a spurs theme.















Friday we made our first visit to Build-a-Bear and Longji picked out a birthday present and his very own puppy to build. He loved it!





As for our progress with Brielle's adoption, we are currently two homestudies down with two more to go...one step closer to Brielle!

Happy Birthday Adam Longji!

Longji's 7th birthday was Thursday, March 31st. He turned seven years old and he is officially a big boy now! After school Thursday we had our 12 month post adoption homestudy and our first homestudy for Brielle's adoption. The homestudies went well, but we now realize how much work we have ahead of us. After the visit we went to a favorite Chinese restaurant of ours for a mini-birthday party. My parents joined us for dinner and it was fantastic! Longji passed out cupcakes earlier in the day at school and all he could talk about was the "big" birthday on Saturday.



The weather today was perfect! Not too hot and the cloud cover protected us from the sun. We had close friends and family join us and we had one of Longji's classmates attend. She was a sweetheart. This was probably the biggest event yet for Longji here at home. He has explained to us that he has not had a birthday party before with friends and presents and a cake. We did send him a cake last year, but there are only pictures with him and the nannies eating the cake. He has been to numerous birthday parties here in America and he had great expectations for this first one. On the way home he thanked us in the car and said, "I liked my big birthday party." Oh, he is too cute! Enjoy the pictures!

Welcome Brielle!

I just love the spring season! We are enjoying spring break right now and I am loving every minute of it with Longji! Everything is beginning to turn green again and I can't wait for an awesome wildflower drive through the Texas hill country.

As for the blog changes and new timeline (posted to the right of the blog), John and I had posted previously that we were looking into a second adoption...well, we would like to officially announce we are "pregnant!" A China pregnancy of course! We have been matched and have accepted the referral of a precious six year old girl. We are calling her Brielle and we cannot wait to post the beautiful pictures we have of her. We have to keep her information and pictures confidential for now, but I will keep everyone updated on our progress as it happens. Hopefully we will be traveling to meet our daughter in the fall and it would be such a blessing to have her here with us by Christmas. Longji is excited about having a companion around to play with, although he would prefer another boy in the house. Once I explained she would probably rather play with dolls than his toys he was fine with having a girl around. He is actually only about three months older than Brielle so it will be like having twins at home, which John never wanted. Little did he know...

So for now, we are planning for our upcoming homestudy visits, one for Brielle's adoption and another for Longji's 12 month post-adoption. Still can't believe it has been almost one full year. He has truly blessed our lives. Tomorrow will be our first visit to Fiesta Texas so I will hopefully have pictures to post soon. His birthday is just around the corner and it will be one to remember, that is for sure.

We have officially stepped right back into the crazy, blessed world of adoption and we cannot wait to meet our daughter. And the journey continues...

Adam at the Park