Sunday,
November 9, 2008
TOURING
BEIJING
Today has been a jammed packed full day.
We started out our day with an amazing buffet breakfast, Max ate
and ate and ate, he can put away the food! Then at 8AM we left
to start our day of touring and sightseeing. It ended right
about 8PM with a delicious dinner of many Chinese favorites and
the famous Peking Duck. Jen, I ate an extra wrap just for
you…the things we do for our friends :-).
We had a camera issue today, the little tab that goes over my
battery and memory card came off and without it you can’t turn
your camera on. I use that camera all the time and rarely use my
good one because it is big and bulky. I wasn’t planning on
bringing my better Canon but for some reason I just did at the
last minute. Now I know why, the Lord was taking care of us and
had me bring it. We are so thankful and praise Him for going
before us and taking care of what He knew was going to happen.
We have seen God’s hand over and over in this adoption; we stand
in awe of Him and give Him all praise!
Well tomorrow is the day! We are so excited and happy that the
time has finally come and we will be Vivi’s FOREVER family and
she will be our FOREVER precious daughter. My stomach is already
doing flips and every time I talk about tomorrow I tear up with
emotion, I call it heartmones :-), When God calls you to adopt a
child, you carry that child in your heart. Right now, my heart
is so big it feels like it is about to burst, it was the same
with Max and I think any adoptive parent would describe it the
same way. Paul and I are so grateful and thankful that God has
called us to adoption. We feel so blessed that God has entrusted
us to raise His children, to teach and bring them up to love and
serve Him. God has placed both Max and Vivi Jo in our family for
a reason, His plan for their lives were written in His book
before the beginning of time (Psalms 139: 15-16). He has got
great and specific plans for both of them and He will use Max
and Vivi Jo in a mighty way to further His kingdom. Please
remember Paul, myself, Max and Vivi Jo in your prayers. If the
Lord puts us on your mind, please lift us up in prayer.
I want to thank you all for your comments, we look forward to
them and we really appreciate the support and the encouragement
you give.
I put a few pictures from today on the Shutterfly link, I have
many more pictures on the little Canon camera that I can’t
download. When we get home I can put the memory stick directly
in my computer and I will add them later.
We love you!
Paul, Kim and Max |
Sporting the big Christian World Adoption cap.
At Tiananmen Square
At The Great Wall of China
Max and Dada |
