Our Journey to AnnaGrace's MeiMei!!

The Great Wall

2010-01-26T17:06:00.001-08:00

The Perry Family all traveled to The Great Wall of China yesterday with their friends the Rices'. I hope I am getting this right, but I believe Ashton Rice deserves the credit for these beautiful pictures!!! Kathleen said every morning Steve brings the girls down to get breakfast in the morning and then she joins them. When she came down yesterday MollyClaire was jumping up and down and yelling in Chinese. The waitress translated for them and she was saying, "Mama, you came back!!!". They are all doing fantastic and we are counting the days till they return on February 5th!!! Thank you again for all your prayers!!! ... Kelly (Kathleens sister)

We are in China!!!

2010-01-24T15:11:00.000-08:00

Hello all!! Kathleen asked me to update her blog while they were in China!! We have been able to Skype and email. They finally got to meet their new daughter on Wednesday!! They are all doing fantastic!! Molly is a very adventurious little girl and loves to figure out how everything works!!! She is very smart and uses her sweet smile to get what she wants!! She loves to give kisses!! AnnaGrace and MollyClaire are having a great time playing and laughing together. She asked me to post some pictures for you all... Praise God for such a smooth transition!!

WOOHOO we have TA...we're going to CHINA!!!

2009-12-31T18:53:00.000-08:00

Today we received an email from our case manager Mei, stating that we had our travel approval and we would be leaving for China on the 19th of January, returning on the 5th of February!!! Praise God!!! We have waited for this wonderful news for so long and the timing could not have been more perfect. We received the email at the exact time that it turned MollyClaire's 4th birthday in China. What an unbelievable gift...THANK YOU LORD!!!

We are so very excited to travel with our wonderful group, the Rice's, Starnes, and Yinglings!! God is so good!!! We are so blessed to be traveling and sharing this wonderful journey with such wonderful families.

We can't wait for you to follow our journey to MollyClaire!

Stay tuned.....

Our Article 5 has been issued..PRAISE GOD!!!

2009-12-18T06:07:00.000-08:00

We are giving God all the glory....our Article 5 has been issued and our paperwork is officially at the CCAA waiting for Travel Approval!!! We are praying for a speedy TA!! We can't wait to hold MollyClaire and have her home FOREVER!!! We are praying that we travel the first week of January!! We will keep you posted on our journey.....thank you so much for the prayers and support, they mean so much to us!!

Photo Shoot with Ashton

2009-11-10T17:48:00.000-08:00

We had such a wonderful time with our friends the Rices. We will be traveling with them to China to bring home MollyClaire and their son, Andrew. We are so excited to be traveling with them, once again. They were also in China with us when we adopted our AnnaGrace and they adopted their Anna Grace. We are so blessed to call this family our friends. Their oldest daughter, Ashton takes the most wonderful pictures. AnnaGrace enjoyed her photo shoot with Ashton. Enjoy the pictures!! Thank you, Ashton....you take beautiful pictures!!

LOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-11-02T15:47:00.000-08:00

Today we received an email from our wonderful case manager, Mei, stating that she would receive our LOA tomorrow at the latest!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!! We are so very excited!!!! The average wait for LOA is 60-90 days....we waited nearly 90 days for AnnaGrace's LOA!!! Today is day 61 of our wait for MollyClaire's LOA!!! PRAISING GOD for His goodness!!!! We will be traveling to China 10-12 wks from now!!! MollyClaire we are on our way VERY soon!!!!!!!

Thank you so much for all of the prayers during this long wait!!!!! We have felt every one of them!! We will keep you posted as we continue our journey to our sweet girl!!!

We are LID!!!

2009-09-18T20:09:00.000-07:00

We received an email from our wonderful case manager, Mei!! We were LID as of 09/02/09. That means that our paperwork is now going through translation , then reviewed, and to be approved for our Letter of Acceptance. We have been told that this process takes approximately 3 months with the possibility of a shorter time!! Praying for the shorter time!!!
We will defnitely be CELEBRATING this weekend at PF Changs!! Hold on sweet girl, mommy and daddy, and your JieJie...will be coming to get you as soon as we can!! Please pray that everything moves quickly and we are traveling to bring our daughter/sister home VERY soon!!

We also found out that our dear friends, the Starnes' and Yinglings, also received their LID's on 09/02/09....God is so good and we can't wait to travel to China with these wonderful families!! What a wonderful travel group we are going to have.... we also will be traveling with our dear friends, the Rice's, they were in China with us in 2007 and we can't wait to travel with them again!

We have a name for our sweet girl....

2009-09-11T18:41:00.001-07:00

After several months of trying to decide what we are going to name our daughter, we have decided to name her.....MollyClaire Hui!! She is named after two very important women in mine and my husbands families, my Nana(Molly), and Steve's Grandmother(Clara)! What a special name for a VERY special little girl!! We can't wait to meet our sweet MollyClaire!

We will continue to keep you posted on our journey to Molly! We are praying that we will hear that we are LID on Monday!!

Many blessings,
Kathleen

We are DTC!!!

2009-08-28T18:31:00.000-07:00

Praise the Lord!!! We are officially DTC!!! Our documents are on their way to CHINA!!!!!! Praying that we receive a speedy LID (log in date). We are in GREAT compay!! We have several friends that were all DTC within days of each other. We can't wait to travel with this wonderful group of people! God has blessed us beyond measure and for that we will be forever grateful!! We will keep you all posted on our journey to our precious little girl! We are praying that we are able to travel before the end of December, 2009!!!! Please join us in praying this prayer!! We appreciate your prayers more than you will ever know!!

Many blessings,
Kathleen

We are officially LOI !!!!

2009-07-14T19:06:00.000-07:00

PRAISE GOD!!! We received our daughters medical records today!!! We have waited for them since April 30th!!! We were not able to send our LOI to China until we received her medical records!! We got the call from Mei this morning...she said that she was sending our LOI to China, today!!! We are over-the-moon EXCITED!! We CELEBRATED tonight at PF Changs!! We are one step closer to bringing our daughter home!! Our homestudy has been approved and we should receive it in the mail tomorrow!! We will IMMEDIATELY send it to Chicago to apply for our I800a!! Praying our paperwork moves QUICKLY!! Praying our PA arrives VERY SOON!! We will keep you posted on our progress!!

The wait continues!!

2009-05-18T18:45:00.000-07:00

We were hoping and praying that the information needed to send in our LOI would come today!! Unfortunately, it did not!! All of our friends have received their PA's....we would love to join them!! Please pray that we receive our paperwork, VERY SOON!!

AnnaGrace is so excited to meet her sister! Praying our journey moves VERY quickly!! We want our little girl home....NOW!!!

We found our baby girl!!!

2009-05-17T19:37:00.000-07:00

We are sooooooo EXCITED!!! We found our daughter on April 30th, 2009!! She is absolutely beautiful!! We wish we could post a picture of her, but due to our agencies confidentiality agreement we are unable to! We will keep you posted as we complete all of the necessary documents needed to bring our little girl home!! Please pray for us as we wait the difficult wait!!

We love you baby girl, and we can't wait to come get you!!