Time to do some updates...DECEMBER 2007:

In early December I went to NY with Lizzy & her mom (Terry) for Lizzy's school field trip - we had a GREAT time!
I love visiting NY during the Holiday's - there is so much to do...

Chance's Christmas Concert..(he is the little one by the teacher)


Visiting family & friends: Chance and some of his cousins having fun (Chance thinks he's the big kid)! Bobby w/his Aunt Dana (his godmother) He is getting to be the big kid...
Family gatherings (lots of people not enough chairs)
Getting together with friends - wishing everyone a Wonderful Christmas and a GREAT New Year!

We decided to put our Christmas Tree in our Florida room - it was a bit cold out there but it was an amazing site to look at every evening through the glass doors of our family room - this is what the tree looked like before the gifts were opened on Christmas morning - please note that there are not very many decorations on the bottom of the tree because Tinkerbell's tale decided to redecorate (Chance picked a GREAT tree even if it was a little lopsided) - if you look closely you will see pictures of all of our animals of the past and pictures of our current ones as well as pictures/sports cards of the kids...I think the most precious gift in the world are my kiddos and my animals so what better decorations could there be

This is the Davis family on Christmas morning:
We video our Christmas every year and we finish the morning with a letter from Santa as well as the gifts in the stockings and each year we end the video saying the year (2007) and how thankful we are for all that we are blessed with! Hopefully 2007 will be our last Christmas without our little girl but who knows...the CCAA seems to be moving VERY SLOWLY...we can only hope at his point...

I have so much more to catch up on but for now I will do one month at a time...I will be back to do an update - hopefully I can get caught up in the next few days!! Bye for now!

October/November Updates:

We did a hayride

& Bonfire with friends - it was an awesome night!


Halloween was GREAT - Chance went trick or treating with his cousin!




We also did a corn maize it was GREAT - it took us 2 hours to get through it - we were on a mission to complete the map before we found our way out! http://www.cherrycrestfarm.com/cornmaze.asp - this is a great activity if you have the time - its definitely an all day thing!


I went on a field trip with Chance and the 5th grade. The field trip was at a state park and the kids learned about animal tracks and the animals Scat (pooh) - Chance looking really close at the scat they found and he is drawing it on his paper so that he can describe what it looked like (if you look close you can see the scat in the picture) - you never would have guess how excited the kids got when they found scat...


As For the Adoption Update:
Nothing New!!
I can't begin to tell you how many times lately, I have been asked - "Do you have the baby yet" - And my response is "I WISH" but NO! I just say that we are STILL in the waiting game and someday soon the game will finally be over and we will have the BEST prize of all "OUR DAUGHTER"!! One of the ladies said - she wasn't sure because she hadn't heard and I told her if she hadn't heard then there is NOTHING to hear!!! I also assured her that once we get our referral - the WORLD will know that our baby has been matched to us - I don't think there will be anyone out there that won't know!

Well, that is all for now! I will hopefully update the site again real soon!
Have a GREAT Thanksgiving!

Thank You

Here are the pictures of all of the wonderful squishes we have received so far. I have also included the pictures of the Beautiful Adoption cards from Denise & the Adorable Lovey from Cyndi & Dean! Thank you to everyone....sometimes its hard to believe that we will ever see an end to this long wait but all of the gifts/squishes that we receive help to make the adoption seem more real...

Updates....

Well it's been several months since I have updated our blog....not much has changed on the adoption front...CCAA is still chugging along - I guess you could say steady and slow but of course that is not the way we wish it would go....As of the beginning of October CCAA has matched through Nov 30, 2005 so next month will begin a new month of LIDs and hopefully a faster pace!!


Here is what we have been up to since our last posting:



We went to the beach for two weeks - we had AWESOME weather the entire time it was GREAT - Here is a picture of Bobby & Chance - it's so hard to believe how big they are getting.





Immediately after the beach - Chance went to the National Guard camp for a week in Bethany Beach along with is 5 cousins - here he is with 4 of them - is cousin David had left before we rounded everyone up for the picture....
We enjoyed the rest of the summer just lounging in the pool.....



First day of Bobby's Senior Year - it was also his first day driving to school!! It's SOOOO hard to believe that my 1st born (I'd say my baby but he would complain) is growing up and becoming SO independent!! Chance's 1st day of school in 5th grade at a new school - he is really liking it SO far....
We spent time with family here is a picture of me w/Erica 8 mos, Dylan 7 mos & Cadence 22 mos (my great nieces & nephew).

Chance did soccer with his new school - he had a lot of fun - it's hard to believe the soccer season is over!!We went to the first 2007 Philadelphia EAGLES Pre-Season Game -the Eagles won!! YEAH!!! The picture needs no description - the smiles say it all!!!

We went to Hershey park for a company picnic and at the end of the night it was freezing and Bobby got soaked!Lexi & Bob playing drums to the music that was playing....

& Tinker belle laughing at them because they were being silly!!

So that is what has been happening.....

I have other posts to do as well so stay tuned for more upates....

Thanks for following along....

Connie

Catching Up on What is happening at home

Now that my Blog has started I need to get used to posting to it! So here is what has been happening:

June 6th was the Last day of School & every year we have a last day of school party with Chance's class - the weather was GREAT and all of the kids had a blast!! Here is a picture of Chance blowing out the candles on the brownies - every year I have done the birthday cake and each time I end up throwing half of it away - the brownies was a GREAT idea and after two trays there was none left!

June 15th/16th I did my first Relay for Life - for those of you who don't know - it is a way to raise money for Cancer Research - we started walking @ 6:00PM and stopped walking around 10:30AM - we had a few breaks here and there but over all I walked approx. 13 miles - that's a lot of walking with hardly any sleep. We had a GREAT team - we raised over $5,500 & it was a very memorable event. Here is a picture of my friends - who are some of the bravest individuals I know - they are all Cancer survivors!! Keep Smiling ladies - this day was for you!!

June 18th - The 153rd M.P. Unit of the Delaware National Guard left for their Deployment to Iraq - they are scheduled to be gone for a year. It was a very SAD day to see our troops leave. Among them are: my cousin's husband (Ed) - the father of two beautiful little girls; & one of our neighbors (Michael). These individuals are only a few of the 150 individuals that left - we pray for their safe return home!!
June 28th - I joined the China Wait Loss Mom's group and for the first time I have actually written down my goal - so we will see how long it takes me to get to it!! No pressure just determination!




And Finally - We did a camping weekend at the end of the month @ Killen's State Park, DE! We had a GREAT time both camping and at the water park. Here are some pictures!!

Chance & Skyler enjoying the Water Park!

Justin, Bobby, Chance & Skyler taking a fishing break so I could get a picture of all of the kids!

Me, Chance, Skyler & Tonia - taking a break from our bike ride - Bobby & Justin rode on with out us because we were "TOO SLOW" and now they will never know who took this picture...

That's it for June!!

Getting Started!!

Well, I have finally started my Blog.....I have been reading so many and have been really wanting to get started - so here it goes...

Our time line begins like this:
8/88 My husband Bob and I were Married and from the beginning we have always known that we would adopt - it was just a matter of when!!

5/90 Our first child was born - Bobby - Wow - it's hard to believe that he is 17 NOW!!

5/92 - 5/95 We tried to have another baby and the doctors told us that if I didn't get pregnant in a year then we wouldn't be able to....long story...but after a while we knew that if we didn't have another baby that we would again some day because as I said we had ALWAYS planned to adopt!!

7/96 One year & two months later - I was pregnant

3/97 Our Second son was born - thus being the name - CHANCE - and Chance is now 10

6/04 We moved into another home (& last one - because we are NEVER moving again!)

7/05 We confirmed that we were ready to begin the Adoption process and here we are...

8/05 Began the Paper work
9/05 Physicals for all
10/05 Passports arrived- yeah!!!
11/05 Paper chasing
12/05 In addition to paper chasing spending quality time with Friends and Family!
2/3/06 Documents sent to China!!
2/27/06 We are Logged IN!!! And the waiting began!!

It's now:
6/07 Who would have thought that we would still be waiting...