Can you believe it?

A whole year has passed since we first met our daughter! Our adoption agency's Waiting Child List came out Monday night, April 30, 2007...and that is when we first saw our daughter's face! I remember that night so clearly! I had just gotten off the phone with my friend Amy, and thought, "Why not?" and so I checked my email and there was the long awaited news...the list had been posted!!! I scoured all of the names and DOB of all of the 10 children on that list, and only one met our age requirements....Lai Fu Tao. I did a little bit of quick research on her "special need" and found out that it was no big deal, and then I waited. I waited for Steve to get home from his softball game before I looked at her picture. I just knew that this was our little girl - the one we had been praying for, and I wanted Steve to be here when we saw our daughter's face for the first time. When he got home, we opened the file, and this is what we saw.....

Beautiful, isn't she? It's amazing at how perfect she is for our family. I can't believe that we have only "known" her for a year, it seems like she has been a part of our family forever. We are so grateful that God placed her in our family - not a day goes by where I am not in awe of the miracle that He performed by choosing her for us. We are eternally grateful. I am so grateful that we were able to find our daughter on the List. All of these children need homes and families desperately, and they are all so beautiful. It breaks my heart that there are still 2 little people on the Hope For Children's current Waiting Child List? Why? Go and check them out and maybe one of them are meant to be a part of your family. They all need homes....why not yours! Here is a current picture of our little one...what a difference a year makes!!! To God be the glory!