“I’m leavin’ on a jet plane”

…(except) I know exactly when I’ll be home again! This crazy crew will be Texas bound in 14 short hours!  Then its 21.5 LONG hours on 3 different planes until we are home!  So that pained sound you just made as you read that is a sign that we need LOTS and LOTS of prayers, please!  Pray that the girls are all content and able to get some sleep on the flight!  Pray for Jay and I to be patient with our three sweet girls…and each other! Our time here has been great, but one can only take so much time in a hotel room with two toddlers!  We are ready to be home, in our own space, with rules, boundaries and my bed…oh, my bed! We land in Houston at 8:18pm on November 15th (Flight UA789)…seeing as how China is 14 hours ahead of Texas, we will be ready for lunch when we get home!  (and by lunch I mean Chuys!)  We would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to hug your neck, so come see us and meet the newest Motley.  And if the airport is too far…meet us back at our house for Chuys (seriously, someone needs to pick up lunch, I mean dinner!) The rules are the same as with Amelia…you can blow Emma kisses, smile real cheesy, talk in a baby voice…but so help me if you try to pick her up, feed her 0r bathe her, I will have to hurt you.  Baby […]

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Not long now

In 10 short days all four of us will be on a jet plane bound for China!  This is our schedule while we are there! I’ll have a massive prayer list as we get closer, but here are the majors you can be praying with us!  Be praying for Emma to be ready for all of the crazy amount of love that […]

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Adoption…It’s not just for superheroes

The shirts are in!!! When Jay and I sat down to talk through our t-shirt fundraiser, we initially set a goal to sell 50 t-shirts, which would help us raise around $750…which meant there would be further fundraising in order to hit our goal of $5,700, for our orphanage donation when we go to China.  Last minute I changed it to 75 knowing it would be […]

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