Still working on it!

Ok here is the latest update! We never heard back from TECO so we began redoing our paperwork. We now have all of it except one paper we need from Taiwan. It has to be signed by the birth parents and the social work could not locate them. She now has the father's signature but he faked the mother's signature and you could tell it was his signature so the social work has to make another trip back and get the birth mother's real signature. Sooooooooo please be praying they get it fast and it gets to us quickly! Please pray TECO does not loose it again and pray they will do it while we wait! That is the least they could do after they caused all this delay! But anyone who has adopted knows they hold all the power and you have to be soooooo careful and nice or it just might go missing again! So pray they do it fast and God puts wings on it to get it back to Taiwan! Our Barely has waited so long! She has gone from a 8 month old baby to a 2 year old while we has tread-ed this process. Alana still calls her baby Braeley! Pray we get a fast judge and the biggest prayer is pray Braeley gets her Visa! As some of you know a couple went a few weeks ago and got their daughter as the adoption was complete and had her 2 weeks. When they got ready to return home AIT (American Embassy in Taiwan) would not issue her a visa!!!! So please be praying God will put the right person(His person) there at the right time and God Himself will stamp Braeley's visa! He has taken down so many mountains and wall on this journey. He must have something GREAT for Braeley to do as the fight to bring her home has been bigger than any I have ever known! She must be going to be the next Billy Graham with all the fight satan has put up to keep her from coming home! :-) So please get the word out and put her on every prayer list you can think of!


Matthew 18:19 and 20 "Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven." Thanks,
Debby

Rodeo 2010

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Chinese New Year 2010 Year of the Tiger

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Happy 2nd Birthday my sweet Hsin Yu!!!! We miss you so much!

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What a week!

Feb. 23rd our sweet daughter turned 2. We watched from a far as she turned 1 never thinking a year later we would also watch her turn 2 and still be so far from having her in our arms. We were suppose to enter the courts early this week and found out at that time we were missing our TECO paper work. We called and called but TECO in Houston would not return our phone call. So we drove there and when we ask about the status of our paperwork we were told we must be mistaken as they had no file on us. But it just so happened { thank you God} Rick had saved his receipt from them and brought it with him. When we showed it to them they were not happy and finally had to admit that our file was lost. They said they would look for it and call us the next day but we never heard a word from them. We drove there today to find out what is going on only to find it was closed. So we spent today reprinting our forms and paperwork so we can start all over. Some of the forms were sent from Taiwan so we are not sure how long it will take to get it all back together and notarized again. So we can start with TECO again. But I can tell you this it has been a very long time since I have felt this tired and discouraged! But God is so good to us I know He will come through for us once again!



Lord let us rest in you!

Happy Valentines Day Everyone!

We have just been ticking off the holidays waiting to get to Easter so we can go get Braeley and bring her home. Well yesterday we got word we will once again not be traveling at Easter to bring our sweet baby girl home. The paper work never even made it into the courts yet and we have to get a date for first ruling and then wait around 6 weeks for the final ruling then get a visa appointment. Soooooo as we once again deal with the pain of watching our daughter have her 2nd birthday from a far as we did her first we ask for all the prayers we can get. Please pray we don't  have trouble getting Braeley's visa and we can travel soon. Pray for a speedy court process. I know it is all in God's time and He does have a plan! This wait has been so hard on Alana our 5 year old. She has waited so long to get her baby sister home. I pray we see the light at the end of the tunnel soon!
Debby

Braeley and her foster family looking at the family pictures we sent her.