We have a Daughter!!!

We are SO very excited to introduce our daughter!

Elena MaryElizabeth Davis
Chinese given name: Guo Le Jing
Born April 13, 2008
From: Guixi SWI, Jiangxi Province



Words can't discribe the emotions that we have gone through today!! But seeing our little one's face makes this wait so worth every minute! Now we are on a new count down! We have now moved on to the waiting to hold you stage!!

Our dreams are finally becoming a reality!!

We LOVE you Elena and can't wait to have you with us!!

...Lots to catch up on!!

So much has happened in the past few months - so I am going to do brief catch up:


Bobby took 1st in Sheet Metal for the State in Skills USA and his cousin Sam took 1st in practical nursing!


Chance & Lizzy had a GREAT track season!


Bobby graduated from High School!! We ARE SO VERY PROUD OF HIM!!


Chance's end of the school year/birthday party!


We did Relay for life again this year - it's such a touching experience to be there and support this great cause!


Chance joined the swim team and is group took 1st in the boys 11-12 year old division!

We had a GREAT time on vacation @ the beach this summer!!


Chance did the National Guard camp again this year with a bunch of his cousins - each color was a different division - as you can see we had all of the divisions covered!


Luke's first day of school - I was so excited to be there - I remember taking his mom (my niece) on her first day!!


Chance's 1st day of school - his books weigh almost as much as he does!!


The 3 Amegos...they decided to dress the same for a wedding we went to - the wedding was fun but seeing them together as they all walked in was priceless!!

My friend Nicole & I worked on our company picnic - here is a picture of Nicole with her family & me with mine

Mom & Dad on their 50th Wedding Anniversay! They didn't want an anniversary party so we elected to do a paint party instead and we painted their living room & entry way - it turned out really nice but the best part was - all of us kids worked on it together!

Peter, Chance & Charlie - this was Peter's first time staying with us! We were very lucky to be able to host Peter at our house for a month while his forever family was being found!!


Our group of Trick or Treaters! It was a Fun night!! I didn't think Peter would ever get tired!


Our Agency did an adoption picnic - it was a beautiful day and a GREAT event - I was lucky enough to win a really nice baby stroller!

Peter's field trip - spending time with him was a lot of fun - even if it was with 21 other kids!


Peter's last day with us! This is a GREAT picture of Bobby, Chance & Peter!


Getting out Christmas Tree!


Christmas 2008 - Bobby (18), Chance (11), Lexi & Tinkerbell!

March/April 2008

March & April were crazy months...
Chance had his tonsils out the day before his 11th birthday!! Needless to say - not party - so we decided to do what we've done in the past and that is postpone his birthday until the summer - so on the last day of school we will have a end of the school year party/birthday party!!

I went to Atlanta for work and fun! I worked an event and after spent the weekend visiting friends:


I visited Terry & Mike and their puppy MoJo - we had a GREAT time catching up and seeing different parts of Atlanta!! MoJo was my new best friend!! I can't thank them enough for all they did to make my visit so much fun - we spent an evening out at a comedy show and shopping the next day!!

Mike, Terry and I met up with my other friends in Atlanta - Anne, Andy & Zoe - we went to dinner and after dinner I went home with Anne and her family...we had a GREAT time catching up as well - I especially enjoyed spending time with Zoe - she is truly an Amazing little girl - she loves to draw, play games and just have fun! We went to the Atlanta Aquarium and then to the Varsity for lunch before I had to head back to the airport - it was a FUN filled four days!! Anne & Andy I hope that our little girl grows up to be just like Miss Zoe!!

Easter was early this year - we had a GREAT time visiting all of our family - Bobby informed me that he is too old for the Easter egg hunt - so this year the eggs that usually lead to where the baskets are hidden were hung in a bag on his bedroom door and he had to find his Easter basket all on his own - it was rather fun to watch especially since the Easter basket was in the bottom of the laundry - he must have checked there several times before he decided to take the laundry out...I told him if he wants the basket then the least he could do is find it...one of these years he is going to tell me he is too old for the basket as well but for now since he still wants the candy he will continue to look for the basket!
Chance did an Easter egg hunt at his Mommom & Poppop's and the squirrel found the egg first - look what it did to what was in the egg (& no not all of his eggs had money in them but this one the squirrel wanted!!)

In April we (Terry, Lizzy, Chance & me) decided to take a road trip and we headed to Busch Gardens in Virginia.

January/February 2008

We always have a lot going on and January/February 2008 was no different! Chance participated in Wrestling and Basketball - he basically had practice or a game/meet every day for two months!! He was very determined to work hard so that he could do well....



Chance may be little but he is tough!! He's weight was 57 lbs but because he was in 5th grade the weight class he had to wrestle in was 62 - 65 lbs - he did pretty good for being so little. Chance's wrestling team won their first school meet in 2 years - they are a very small group and it is hard to compete against a team that can fill most of the weight classes - ...the team had 7 pins and 7 wins by default or points - Chance was able to be part of the win.

This is Chance' basketball team - they only won one game but they had a lot of fun!


Lexi & TinkerBelle sharing the new bed very nicely!!

The band (KNOXX) is a group of friends/neighbors - they are a lot of fun to listen to!! We have a GREAT time when we go!!

January 17th Erica (my GREAT-niece) turned ONE!!


February 17th Dylan (my GREAT-Nephew) turned ONE!! TinkerBelle turned TWO in February!! Bobby & Tink posing for her birthday picture!!

Lots of Birthdays this month but there was ALSO one VERY IMPORTANT date that happened in the month of February - we were officially logged in for TWO YEARS!! Still not sure when we might be getting our referrals - but if we are lucky it will be in the 2008!!

Lots of other fun & exciting things happening but I will save that for another post!

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!