Today was the day!!! Holt called this afternoon with exciting news that the letter from China (LOA) had arrived!! Praise God that His hand has been on our paperwork all the way in China! God is so good :) We were also told today that is looks like September travel to China for us - 3 more months! We are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. This weekend we are going to double check our paperwork which will hopefully be overnighted to immigration on Monday - then a (hopefully) 2-3 week wait on those documents....more waiting, but not as long!
Thank you so much for your continued prayers and support. Please continue to lift Aaron up during this time of transition for him as well as for our 3 kiddos here waiting with us. :) Love you all!
Blessings~
CHOSEN: One Chosen Family's Journey to Adopt a Chosen Child
Friday, June 17, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
New Update!
We were thrilled to get an update from Biejing today! There was a short letter from Aaron's foster mom and 6 new pictures! He is really growing! Below you can see the new pics of the little cutie!
Anyway, I wanted to give an update on where we are at right now in the whole process. As of right now, we are waiting for a coveted letter from China. We are hoping and praying to get this letter towards the middle or end of this month (pray for asap!). Our agency estimates us flying to China about 3 months from the time we get this letter. As soon as we get the letter, we then send in about 11 pages of paperwork to United States Immigration Services (and we have these papers filled out and ready to go!). After we get word back from immigration we will start looking towards travel! Yeah!!
About 3 weeks ago we sent a really neat book to Aaron. My grandma and mom found this book that recorded our voices reading the book to him, so he gets to hear our voices! Ryan and I each read a page, and then each of the kids read a page, and then we read one page all together. So, he should have received the book by now, but they didn't mention it in the letter... Ryan and I laugh and wonder if the "talking book" is driving them crazy with our voices going off everytime the book is opened! They may have hid it!
Anyway, we really appreciate all of your prayers and support. In the letter from Aaron's foster mom, she said that their family is going to be traveling back to the United States for a few weeks. While they are gone Aaron will be at Ping An Foster Home. Please keep him in your prayers as his life begins to go through so many changes. We are praying that God surrounds him in His love and wraps His everloving arms around our boy until we can have him in our arms.
Blessings~
Anyway, I wanted to give an update on where we are at right now in the whole process. As of right now, we are waiting for a coveted letter from China. We are hoping and praying to get this letter towards the middle or end of this month (pray for asap!). Our agency estimates us flying to China about 3 months from the time we get this letter. As soon as we get the letter, we then send in about 11 pages of paperwork to United States Immigration Services (and we have these papers filled out and ready to go!). After we get word back from immigration we will start looking towards travel! Yeah!!
About 3 weeks ago we sent a really neat book to Aaron. My grandma and mom found this book that recorded our voices reading the book to him, so he gets to hear our voices! Ryan and I each read a page, and then each of the kids read a page, and then we read one page all together. So, he should have received the book by now, but they didn't mention it in the letter... Ryan and I laugh and wonder if the "talking book" is driving them crazy with our voices going off everytime the book is opened! They may have hid it!
Anyway, we really appreciate all of your prayers and support. In the letter from Aaron's foster mom, she said that their family is going to be traveling back to the United States for a few weeks. While they are gone Aaron will be at Ping An Foster Home. Please keep him in your prayers as his life begins to go through so many changes. We are praying that God surrounds him in His love and wraps His everloving arms around our boy until we can have him in our arms.
Blessings~
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
New Pictures :)
We are always excited to get new pictures and we got a letter today too :) Thought some of you would enjoy seeing a couple more pictures~
Looks like he likes animals -- good thing with our family!
The boy with Aaron is his foster brother:)
Love that smile!
Monday, April 25, 2011
Wow....what a wonderful suprise!
Today is our 13th wedding anniversary - and God gave us a special gift today :) Some of you have asked why we can't talk to the foster parents in China since they are American. Well, according to the Hague rules and regulations, we can have no correspondence with the foster family until after we finish with the adoption process. What is suprising is that apparently the foster family in China was not aware of this rule. This weekend the American foster mom in China left 2 messages at the office for us and then called 2 times this morning! We CAN NOT talk to them at all or it could damage our adoption process. So, the wonderful girls at the office kind of stalled with her and in the mean time I was trying to get a hold of our agency (they are an hour behind us). On our last post we had just sent over a photo album and letter to Aaron, which she received and then tracked us down on the internet! Well, one of our workers at Holt (our international agency) ended up calling her this morning (and waking her up! it was 3 in the morning in China!). The foster mom told her that she just wanted to let us know that they had received our photo album and letters. She also told her that they are now calling him Aaron (I am crying tears of joy as I right this!), and he has been looking at the photos and he will flip back to my picture and say "mom" - God is so good. We pray for Aaron so often through the day, and recently I have been asking God to please allow an update on Aaron to come quickly - well, He answered, just not the way I pictured - but so much better! She also said that he is doing very good and speaking English and Chinese. We are so thankful for this unexpected update!
Thank you again for your continued prayers~
Blessings.
Thank you again for your continued prayers~
Blessings.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Waiting and Saving....
Well, many things have been going on the last couple of weeks - not exciting, but progress with more paper work! This week we were so excited to be able to send a letter and a photo album of our family to Aaron. We took all kinds of pictures and the kids each wrote a letter to him as well - they were so sweet! Aaron will probably be receiving the letters and photos with in the next couple of weeks, so please pray for his little heart as our family is introduced to him and the changes begin. It is so easy to think of how absolutely excited our whole family is to be blessed with a new child - but at times I can get overwhelmed with the extreme changes that he has no control over and how confusing this must be for him. I just can't wait to hold him and tell him how much he is loved and we will never leave him - and even more importantly how much God loves him and will never leave him!
Next month, May 7th, we will be having a fund raising garage sale to help cover the cost of our travel expenses. So, if you live in our area and have anything you want to donate let us know - or if you need anything come check out all of the goodies! We have several families donating items to the garage sale so I think there will be some good stuff :)
Right now we have about a 2 month waiting period while our paper work is processed in China. We are praying that it goes through quickly. After that we will start moving towards getting more information on our travel timeline to China - we are still praying for August or September :)
Thank you so much for all your prayers and support - we will continue to give you up dates as we get closer to bringing our little one home~
Next month, May 7th, we will be having a fund raising garage sale to help cover the cost of our travel expenses. So, if you live in our area and have anything you want to donate let us know - or if you need anything come check out all of the goodies! We have several families donating items to the garage sale so I think there will be some good stuff :)
Right now we have about a 2 month waiting period while our paper work is processed in China. We are praying that it goes through quickly. After that we will start moving towards getting more information on our travel timeline to China - we are still praying for August or September :)
Thank you so much for all your prayers and support - we will continue to give you up dates as we get closer to bringing our little one home~
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Name....
This week we had to get all of the adoption agreement documents and visa info sent into our agency. We needed to decide on his American name to put on all of the documents. So, Xintong's new American name is Aaron Xintong Wolff. :)
Sunday, March 13, 2011
The Wait Begins....
About 5 years ago, Ryan and I began to feel the pull on our hearts to adopt from China. Over the last few years God brought us to Rio Rancho, led us into foster care, brought children into our home who challenged us, held our hearts when they would leave, and He has brought us to where we are today. He has chosen a child who needs our family and we are now on the journey to bring him home from the other side of the world.
In September of last year, Ryan and I filled out the application to begin the process of adopting from China. So, for the last few months we have filled out form after form, prayed, went through the long international homestudy process, prayed, back ground checks, kept praying, fingerprinting - you get the picture. Then last week we were told that we were matched with (God had chosen) a little boy in China! To say we were excited doesn't even seem appropriate!
His name is Xin Tong, and he is 3 years old. He lives with a foster family in China, and the foster family is American! How awesome is that?! We are thrilled he is already learning English and eating American food!
Now we begin the wait. We are hoping to travel to China in 4-6 months to bring Xin Tong home. In the mean time, we have many more forms to fill out for the international adoption process to be completed.
We are praying throughout the day for Xin Tong. Please join us as we pray for his continued safety, that he feels loved and cherished even now, for his health, and that the Lord will prepare his little heart for this huge change about to come into his life.
We are so excited that God has chosen Xin Tong for our family, and we will do our best to keep you up to date on what is going on as we get closer to bringing our new son and brother home.
In September of last year, Ryan and I filled out the application to begin the process of adopting from China. So, for the last few months we have filled out form after form, prayed, went through the long international homestudy process, prayed, back ground checks, kept praying, fingerprinting - you get the picture. Then last week we were told that we were matched with (God had chosen) a little boy in China! To say we were excited doesn't even seem appropriate!
His name is Xin Tong, and he is 3 years old. He lives with a foster family in China, and the foster family is American! How awesome is that?! We are thrilled he is already learning English and eating American food!
Now we begin the wait. We are hoping to travel to China in 4-6 months to bring Xin Tong home. In the mean time, we have many more forms to fill out for the international adoption process to be completed.
We are praying throughout the day for Xin Tong. Please join us as we pray for his continued safety, that he feels loved and cherished even now, for his health, and that the Lord will prepare his little heart for this huge change about to come into his life.
We are so excited that God has chosen Xin Tong for our family, and we will do our best to keep you up to date on what is going on as we get closer to bringing our new son and brother home.
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