Each Friday, she hosts a Show Us Your Life. Usually, it's different rooms of your house or decorations. Well, this Friday, I can relate! It's Adoption Stories!
I know many of you have seen these pics before, but I wanted to share for everyone who else may check it from Kelly's blog.
Our adoption journey began on June 24, 2009. This is when we took the first step and submitted the application. We had been talking about adoption for some time because we had difficulty getting pregnant on our own. After 5 years of fertility treatments, we decided that our love for a child was too strong to continue with the treatments and hoping someday we would get pregnant. After the first initial mountains of paperwork, we received "The Call" on March 24, 2010. About an hour after the call, we received this via email:
Talk about love at first sight!!! After many months of waiting and many more mountains of paperwork, we flew to China on October 20, 2010.
And on October 25th, we met our little girl!!
Meet Ava Katherine Houghtaling! She is the most precious thing I have ever laid my eyes on!
Our family after 28 hours of traveling home from China
And our family today
Ava is adjusting so well! We can't imagine our life without her!! Feel free to read further into our journey!
Hi there, I popped over from Kelly's blog to visit and how funny is this...we both have adopted from China and we both have the same blog background and header!?!?!? Crazy :) Take care. Your daughter Ava is a cutie!
ReplyDeleteHi! I too am visiting from KK. We are currently in the paperchasing mode to adopt a special needs daughter from China! Your comment about being a blog junkie is TOTALLY me too! I call myself a "blog 'ho"! I can't wait to see your story unfold (because I'm here for good now!)
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